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Occupational Therapist | OT

BrightSpring Health Services

LOWELL, MAPer Diem$55–60/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$55–60/hr
Location
LOWELL, MA
Schedule
Per Diem
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Occupational Therapist LicenseCPR CertificationBachelor's degree

Job overview

The Occupational Therapist will provide neurorehabilitation in patients’ homes and communities, helping them rebuild independence in daily routines, cognition, safety, and participation. The role offers flexible scheduling, clinical autonomy, one-to-one care, and neuro-focused caseloads, with paid hourly work, documentation time, mileage reimbursement, and drive time. A pediatric opportunity is available.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Occupational TherapyNeurological Rehabilitation TechniquesVerbal CommunicationWritten CommunicationLifting 50 PoundsPatient TransfersFine Motor SkillsVisual AcuityWalking and StandingPushing and PullingBending and StoopingReachingKneelingPatient Positioning

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Occupational TherapyOccupational Therapist LicenseCPR Certification1 Year Occupational Therapy Experience

Full job description

Our Company

Rehab Without Walls Neuro Rehabilitation

Overview

Occupational Therapist (OT) – Neuro Home & Community

Peds opportunity available!

Why clinicians love this role:

  • Flexible scheduling with full control over your week

  • True clinical autonomy in treatment planning

  • 1:1 focused care (no double booking)

  • Paid hourly + paid documentation time

  • Mileage reimbursement + drive time paid (manageable and thoughtful coverage areas - no road warriors here - we keep you local!)

  • Neuro-focused, functional caseloads

We are building a neuro rehab model focused on real-life function—not clinic-based limitations.

As an Occupational Therapist in our home and community neuro program, you will help patients rebuild independence in the activities that matter most: daily routines, cognition, safety, and participation in life.

You’ll work directly in the patient’s home and community, where recovery actually happens—not in artificial clinic environments.

This role is built for OTs who wantautonomy, flexibility, and meaningful outcomes without productivity pressure.

You will focus on:

  • Activities of daily living (ADLs/IADLs)

  • Cognitive rehabilitation in real environments

  • Home safety and functional independence

  • Neuro recovery following stroke, TBI, and other conditions

If you want to help people regain real independence—not just complete exercises—this role will feel different immediately.

Responsibilities

What you will do: Responsibilities listed include but not limited to:

  • Perform evaluations and develop treatment plans

  • Regularly re-assess effectiveness of treatment plans, attend staffing meetings and family conferences

  • Perform discharge evaluations, make appropriate recommendations for home and community safety, and provide referral and education resources

  • Communicate patient’s needs and progress to the treatment team, physician, person receiving services and family members

  • Communicates with other disciplines to ensure collaboration, coordination of care and enhance patient outcomes

Qualifications

What you will need:

  • Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy from a college or university with an accredited Occupational Therapy program

  • Current, unrestricted license as an Occupational Therapist by state in which practicing

  • Current CPR Certification

  • A minimum of one year’s work experience as an Occupational Therapist

  • Demonstrates knowledge of rehabilitation techniques related to complex neurological diagnoses preferred

  • Communicates effectively and professionally in verbal and written interactions

  • Ability to lift 50 pounds

  • Moving, lifting, or transferring of patients which may involve lifting of up to 100 pounds following safety procedures

  • Duties require fine motor skills ,visual acuity, and walking/ standing for extended periods

  • Additional physical requirements include: pushing/pulling, bending/stooping, reaching, kneeling, and positioning frequently at times

  • A health screen or examination may be required prior to assignment and periodically thereafter, depending on specific location policy, local and state regulations to verify employee is physically capable of performing assigned duties with or without reasonable accommodations

About our Line of Business

Rehab Without Walls, an affiliate of BrightSpring Health Services, is a revolutionary neurorehabilitation program that moves individuals outside the walls of institutional settings and into their natural home and community environment through a continuum of care. It is designed to significantly help people who have primarily experienced a brain injury, spinal cord injury, or stroke/CVA through accident or illness regain functional capabilities. By providing care in the home, community, workplace, or school, Rehab Without Walls promotes greater health through the recovery process, all with industry-leading outcomes that dramatically improve functional skills and independence for patients. For more information, please visitwww.rehabwithoutwalls.com. Follow us onFacebook (https://www.facebook.com/rehabwithoutwalls) andLinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/rehab-without-walls-neurorehabilitation) .

Salary Range

USD $55.00 - $60.00 / Hour

BrightSpring Health Services, and our family of brands, provides equal employment opportunity

Job LocationsUS-MA-LOWELL

ID 2026-198442

Line of Business Rehab Without Walls Neuro Rehabilitation

Position Type PRN

Pay Min USD $55.00/Hr.

Pay Max USD $60.00/Hr.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,044 open Occupational Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$55–60/hr
  • Massachusetts median$51–60/hr82 hourly ranges
  • US median$46–58/hr1,882 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $57.50/hr, is 5% above the Massachusetts median midpoint ($55/hr) — in the middle half of Occupational Therapist hourly ranges in Massachusetts.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 145 open Occupational Therapist jobs in Massachusetts and 5,044 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Massachusetts
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Occupational Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (1,370 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,939 of the 5,044 open Occupational Therapist jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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