Occupational Therapist
Listed compensation
$70K - $75K
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
This position offers a salary range of $70,000 to $75,000. Actual pay will be based on relevant skills, qualifications, and experience.
Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity working with the pediatric population (children birth to 3 years)? Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of families? Thom Child & Family Services located in Worcester, MA is seeking licensed Occupational Therapist/OT to join their team.
As an Early Intervention Occupational Therapist/Clinician, you will be responsible for providing home and community based early intervention services to infants and toddlers who have or are at risk for developmental delays and their families in both their homes and community settings.
You will partner with parents/caregivers to ensure service delivery is individualized, meaningful for the family, and grounded in evidence-based practice. Through this collaborative process you ensure families’ priorities, needs, culture, and values are prioritized.
Thom Child & Family Services offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefit package including, but not limited to:
- Flexible Schedules: 30-40 hours a week (Monday through Friday) 8:30am to 4:30pm
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance, including Fitness Benefits and Wellness Incentive Program
- Generous vacation and personal time
- Sick time (96 hours every year)
- Professional Development/Conference time
- Paid holiday (12 paid holidays)
- 403(b) with employer matching
- Section 125 flexible benefits plan (Medical and dependent care)
- Thom Sponsored Health Reimbursement Account
- Employer-sponsored Long-term disability insurance
- Employer-sponsored Life Insurance
- Employer-sponsored Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
- Productivity Bonus Plan
- Opportunity for scholarship through Fazzio scholarship and Thom Academy
- Paid professional license renewal fees.
- Clinical supervision, orientation program, mentoring and team support.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mileage reimbursement
- Employer issued laptop and cell phone
Other Optional Benefits
1. Short-term Disability Insurance
2. Accident Insurance
3. Cancer Insurance
Position Responsibilities
4. Participate in multidisciplinary team assessments of the client’s developmental status.
5. Assess family and child strengths/resources, concerns, and progress.
6. Provide child and family centered services and activities developmentally appropriate for children birth to three and their families using parent coaching model.
7. Provide service coordination by scheduling, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the intervention plan for each family, ensuring that appropriate procedures and timelines are followed.
8. Partner with families in the development of Individual Family Service Plans (IFSPs) to identify goals, objectives, and strategies related to the child’s development.
9. Facilitate parent-child interactions to encourage child's development; assist families to act as advocates for their child.
10. Complete progress notes, reports, assessments, and correspondence as appropriate using the Thom electronic documentation system.
11. Provide individual and group intervention for infants and toddlers from birth to three years old who have developmental delays or who are at risk for delays in the areas of cognition, adaptive behavior, social-emotional development, self-care, fine motor, gross motor, and communication.
Position Requirements
- Current licensure as a Occupational Therapist by the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Health Professions
- Experience with infants, toddlers and families is preferred
- Minimum 1 year experience working in Early Intervention
- Knowledge of family systems and early childhood development.
- Ability to engage in meaningful, therapeutic relationships with children, parents/caregivers, and community partners.
- Commitment to delivering individualized and culturally humble services.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
- Abide by all confidentiality and professional boundaries standards.
- Good computer skills as well as strong documentation skills.
- Current driver’s license and reliable transportation.
- Bilingual/Bicultural a plus.
No Phone Calls or Recruiters Please
Thom Child and Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, familial status, domestic violence status, or any other status protected by law.
Key Responsibilities
The Occupational Therapist provides home and community-based early intervention services to infants and toddlers with developmental delays. They collaborate with families to develop and implement Individual Family Service Plans (IFSPs) using a parent coaching model.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a current Occupational Therapist license from the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Health Professions. A minimum of one year of experience in Early Intervention is required.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Occupational Therapist Career Context
In Massachusetts, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$90k (248 salary observations; 543 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (6,623 salary observations; 25,390 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 Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$73k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $69k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Of the 40 active Occupational Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 3% are remote, 45% have no call, 68% require no weekends.
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 Occupational Therapist at Douglas-A-Thom Clinic a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 10% in Occupational Therapy — ranked against 9,297 active Occupational Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
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