Occupational Therapy Student Internship
About this Role
We are seeking an experienced, energetic, and passionate occupational therapy student/intern to gain clinical skills with our pediatric clients. We love providing families with the tools they need to not only survive, but thrive in their survival of a pediatric cancer diagnosis.
Key Responsibilities
- Educate and publicize AHF’s mission and values to the community
- Verbalize and carry out OT’s distinct value when working with families and team members
- Collaborate with OTR to set and meet individual learning goals
- Reflect upon clinical practice abilities
- Work with other team members as part of an interprofessional treatment plan
- Use time effectively with as represented on Google Calendar
- With supervision of an OTR:
- ~Develop an OT treatment plan through evaluation, use of clinical knowledge, judgment, and therapeutic skills
- ~Creatively engage clients in individualized client-led therapeutic tasks based upon their interests and needs
- ~Facilitate the development of cognitive, fine motor, sensory processing, social, emotional, behavior skills through evidence-based techniques
- ~Evaluate client’s strengths/weaknesses through clinical observation, standardized and informal assessment, teacher/parent report, and medical history in order to develop individualized treatment, goals, and plan of care
- ~Develop their individual role as a dynamic component of therapeutic group interventions including but not limited to family events, day camps, and day programming
- ~For capstone students, assess current programming at AHF and plan/implement program modifications or development
Requirements
- Current Enrollment in Occupational Therapy Program or students pursuing Occupational Therapy as a profession
- Interest and experience working with a variety of age groups including toddlers, preschoolers, and/or school-age populations through young adult
- Knowledge of Microsoft office and Google platform apps and working with databases
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Comfortable working with a diverse population
