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BAYADA Home Health Care
Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Home Health Occupational Therapist

Occupational TherapistPart-Time

Listed compensation

$62-$67/hr

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Job Description

Part-Time or Full-Time Home Health Occupational Therapist

Flexible Schedule and Work/Life Balance!!

BAYADA Home Health Care is currently seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist, for a part-time or full-time opportunity performing home health visits for patients in their homes. As a Home Health Occupational Therapist, you will provide rehabilitative therapy to adult and geriatric patients in their homes in Dartmouth, Westport, Fall River, Swansea, Seekonk and surrounding towns. Prior home health experience is not required.

Please call or text Susan at 339-235-4363 for Immediate consideration!!

As a home health Occupational Therapist, you will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary health care team that provides rehabilitative care and skilled nursing to clients, affording them the opportunity to receive the medical care required to remain at home.

Occupational Therapist Responsibilities

Make home visits to clients in designated geographic territories.

Perform thorough evaluations of patients’ functional status, including muscle function, endurance, visual coordination, written and verbal communication skills, and ADL and IADL performance.

Assess cognitive, psychological and motor aspects of performance and develop individualized intervention plans to achieve favorable outcomes.

  • Evaluate home environment for hazards or barriers to more independent living.
  • Identify equipment needs and environmental adaptations resulting in enhanced outcomes for clients.

Continually assess and revise the occupational therapy care plan, and participate with nursing in the multidisciplinary care plan, as appropriate.

Educate and instruct patients, family members, or other patient representatives, in rehabilitative care and activities necessary to promote the client's health, safety and independent living.

Accurately document observations, interventions, and evaluations pertaining to patient care management and services provided, utilizing a touch pad tablet.

Occupational Therapist, OT Qualifications

  • A current Massachusetts Occupational Therapist license.
  • A minimum of one year of recent work experience as an Occupational Therapist.

Why Choose BAYADA?

BAYADA offers a comprehensive benefits plan that includes the following: Paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, vision, dental and medical health plans, employer paid life insurance, 401k with company match, direct deposit and employee assistance program

  • To learn more about BAYADA Benefits, click here.
  • Base Pay: $62.00 - $67.00 per point depending on qualifications
  • For Immediate consideration, please call or text Susan at 339-235-4363!

BAYADA believes that our clients and their families deserve home health care delivered with compassion, excellence, and reliability. Be part of a caring, professional team that is instrumental in providing the highest quality care while developing your career with an industry leader. Apply now for immediate consideration.

As an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider, BAYADA complies with all state/local mandates.

BAYADA is celebrating 50 years of compassion, excellence, and reliability. Learn more about our 50th anniversary celebration and how you can join in here.

BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc., and its associated entities and joint venture partners, are Equal Opportunity Employers.

All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

Key Responsibilities

The Occupational Therapist will perform home visits to evaluate patients' functional status and develop individualized intervention plans to improve independence. They will also educate patients and families on rehabilitative care and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure high-quality health outcomes.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a current Massachusetts Occupational Therapist license and possess at least one year of recent work experience. Strong clinical assessment skills and the ability to travel within designated geographic territories are required.

Key Skills

Patient evaluationCare planningADL assessmentIADL assessmentEnvironmental hazard assessmentPatient educationDocumentationMulti-disciplinary collaborationMuscle function assessmentEndurance assessmentVisual coordination assessment

Occupational Therapist Career Context

In Massachusetts, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$90k (43 salary observations; 88 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (2,086 salary observations; 8,254 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 40 active Occupational Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 60% have no call, 53% require no weekends.

Occupational Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$134k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $127k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution22 jobs

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
97% this job
CME allowance
63%
Loan repayment
33%
Sign-on bonus
17%
Relocation assistance
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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 2.8
Better work-life than 20% of Occupational Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 9,123 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Dartmouth

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$594k
Typical market rent
$2,424/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
101.8
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About BAYADA Home Health Care

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10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Paid holidays
Vacation
Sick leave
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
Medical health plans
Employer paid life insurance
401k with company match