Occupational Therapist with Mentorship & Growth Pathways
Listed compensation
$45.05-$56.31/hr
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Job Description
Cortica is looking for a part time Occupational Therapist to join its growing multi-disciplinary team at our Carlsbad center in CA!
If you're looking for a role where you can collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, build meaningful relationships with families, and practice evidence-based, play-centered therapy, we'd love to meet you!
Our Occupational Therapists work alongside Speech Language Pathologists, Board Certified Behavior Analysts, Physicians, Counselors, and other specialists to create truly integrated treatment plans that help children thrive.
As an Occupational Therapist, you’ll assess, diagnose, and treat sensory integration, sensorimotor, motor, feeding, and developmental disorders in children, while utilizing Cortica’s Whole Child Approach.
We are a rapidly growing healthcare company pioneering the most effective treatment methods for children with neurodevelopmental differences. Our mission is to design and deliver life-changing care – one child, one family, one community at a time. Ultimately, we envision a world that cultivates the full potential of every child. At Cortica, every team member is instrumental in helping us achieve our mission!
What Will You Do?
Establish occupational therapy treatment goals through dynamic and standardized assessment tools, in alignment with Cortica’s Whole Child Approach.
Consult closely with transdisciplinary team members to create collaborative treatment plans and integrative strategies.
Provide individual, group, and co-treat therapy sessions for therapy services within scope, as clinically appropriate.
Contributes to the autism diagnostic process by providing clinical insight and administering standardized assessments (e. g. ADOS), as appropriate.
- Provide therapeutic services in-person in the clinic setting and via telehealth, as clinically appropriate.
- Accurately complete documentation in accordance with Cortica’s designated time frames.
- Provide neurodiversity affirming interventions that are both play-based and goal-based.
- Facilitate functional and child-led experiences to target and achieve individualized goals
We’d Love to Hear from You If
You hold a current and unrestrictive license for Occupational Therapy in the state of practice.
You hold a master’s degree in related field.
You can complete safety training within the first 90 days of employment.
Your Compensation & Benefits
- Receive competitive compensation, $45.05/hr to $56.31/hr, depending on experience.
- Opportunities to grow within our clinical ladder.
- 401k matching.
- Paid holidays.
- Sick time.
- Referral bonuses.
EOE. This posting is not meant to be an exhaustive list of the role and its duties. Please review the job description in the following link: http://bit.ly/4nM70Ql
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Key Responsibilities
Assess and treat children with sensory integration, sensorimotor, motor, feeding, and developmental needs using individualized, play-based and goal-based interventions. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, contribute clinical insight to autism diagnostic assessments, provide clinic and telehealth services as appropriate, and complete timely documentation.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a current, unrestricted occupational therapy license in the state of practice and a master’s degree in a related field. They must also be able to complete safety training within the first 90 days of employment.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Occupational Therapist Career Context
In California, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$116k (263 salary observations; 619 listings), vs ~$96k nationally (1,946 salary observations; 8,121 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Occupational Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 12% are remote, 40% have no call, 50% require no weekends.
Occupational Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 4.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$105k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $95k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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