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Pate Rehabilitation
Irving, Texas

Occupational Therapist Assistant - PRN COTA

Occupational Therapy AssistantPer Diem

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Job Description

Our Company

Pate Rehabilitation

Overview

Our therapy team executes customized treatment plans that deliver real results and exceed patients' expectations. If you're motivated to give our clients a more positive quality of life we encourage you to apply today!

Responsibilities

Assisting the Occupational Therapist in the implementation of vocational and educational activities designed to restore and reinforce individuals' task performance and promote their overall health and self-sufficiency

Designing and adapting equipment for working and living environments, including fabricating assistive devices to improve participation in the program and/or community

Conducting community reintegration activities to assist individuals with their occupational therapy needs during physical activity

Providing training to individuals and any others involved in their rehabilitation, and documenting results of the training

Supporting individuals' plan of treatment by documenting and reporting status changes to the rehabilitation specialist, clinical coordinator, attending physician, and other treatment team members as appropriate

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

  • Degree from a certified occupational therapy assistant training program
  • Current Occupational Therapist Assistant certification
  • Knowledge of complex neurologic injury and neuro-rehabilitation techniques
  • Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience assisting in the assessment and management of traumatic brain injury or related neurological conditions
  • Current CPR certification
  • Knowledge of complex neurologic injury and orthopedic rehabilitation techniques

About Our Line of Business

Pate Rehabilitation, an affiliate of Rehab Without Walls, provides evidence-based physical, occupational, speech/language, and neurocognitive therapies, as well as vocational rehabilitation, to advance and accelerate patient recovery – helping individuals suffering from an acquired brain injury return to a high quality of life. For more information, please visit rehabwithoutwalls.com. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Traumatic brain injury managementPatient assessmentAssistive device fabricationRehabilitation documentationTreatment planningPatient trainingClinical assessment

Occupational Therapist Career Context

In Texas, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (218 salary observations; 2,705 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (5,405 salary observations; 28,087 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-11-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Occupational Therapy market look like in Texas?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Texas vs national$96k median in Texas$97k nationally (−1%)218 state / 5,405 national salary observations
Cost of livingTexas index 97.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Occupational Therapy listings in Texas860 active8,894 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedTexas Occupational Therapist listings: 10% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 6% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
New Occupational Therapy listings3,122 in the last 30 days1,573 the 30 days before (+98%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Occupational Therapy pay trend+4.5% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top contract/1099 OTA Jobs

3 matches · ranked by pay
#1

COTA / Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant - Home Health

Adoration Health · Sweetwater, Tennessee

#2

COTA / Occupational Therapist Assistant

Rehab Without Walls Neuro Rehabilitation · San Antonio, Texas

#3

Pediatric Occupational Therapist or COTA - Friendswood and surrounding area

+ 1 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Occupational Therapy Assistant listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,043 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Irving

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$309k
Typical market rent
$1,595/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.