Home Health Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant
Listed compensation
$65-$75/hr
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Job Description
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Flexible schedule
Health Insurance
We are looking for a per diem Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA) with recent Home Health experience to visit patients in their homes in the Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, Perris, Mennifee and Hemet areas.
Apply your home health therapy experience and provide the high quality care to our patients. We thrive on our patient care in our communities!
Responsibilities and Duties
- Assess patient's condition under a OT during every visit and chart observations
- Perform evaluation tasks, including vital signs
- Follow prescribed treatments, following plan of care and assess progress of healing
- Provide appropriate timely feedback to Occupational Therapist and other professionals
- Charting and documenting on EMR system.
Key Responsibilities
The Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant will assess patient conditions, monitor vital signs, and follow prescribed treatment plans during home visits. They are also responsible for documenting patient progress and providing timely feedback to the Occupational Therapist and other professionals.
Requirements
Candidates must be a Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA) with recent experience in home health settings. Proficiency in charting and documenting patient care within an EMR system is required.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Occupational Therapist Career Context
In California, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$117k (932 salary observations; 2,030 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (6,625 salary observations; 25,396 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Care Essentials Home Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 73/100, 4 active listings.
Occupational Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Home Health Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant at CARE ESSENTIALS HOME HEALTH a 6.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Occupational Therapy Assistant — ranked against 1,043 active Occupational Therapy Assistant listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
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PACS · San Jose, California
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$79k-$96kCOTA / Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant - Home Health
$35-$40/hrWork-life snapshot
Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,043 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.
- No weekends
Living in Murrieta
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $603k
- Typical market rent
- $2,672/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 37 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 106.4
- State income tax
- Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.