Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA)
Listed compensation
$80k-$100k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
- Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) - Home Health
- Schedule: Full-time Monday–Friday + occasional weekends (as needed)
- Location: Field-based
- Comp: $58 per Point, $80,000-$100,000/yr
Who We Are
Adaptive Home Health is building a higher-acuity, patient-centered, skilled home health model across Texas. Our ultimate mission is to dramatically improve patient access to home health care.
The OT role is the front line of that mission: you restore function in the home, build safe routines, reduce avoidable decline, and help patients regain independence in ADLs/IADLs.
We build technology to better support our field clinicians faster and more supported. Ultimately, our clinicians are the customers of our engineering team. Our charting product is designed to reduce documentation burden and keep visits moving, and our scheduling product (launching soon) will make it easier to coordinate visits, reduce last-minute changes, and protect clinician time.
If you have strong clinical judgment and you like owning outcomes, this role gives you autonomy, meaningful patient impact, and a support team built to remove administrative friction.
What You Will Do
- Complete in-home OT evaluations and deliver skilled OT visits.
- Build and execute a clear plan of care focused on ADLs/IADLs, safety/fall prevention, and functional independence.
- Recommend and train on adaptive equipment and home modifications as needed.
- Coordinate with nursing and the broader care team when condition or needs change.
- Document promptly and thoroughly in Homecare Homebase (HCHB) — defensible, efficient, and consistent.
Why Adaptive
Operations that back you up: You are supported by an experienced clinical and operational team so you can focus on patient care, not chasing logistics.
Clear productivity model with upside: You are paid per productivity point with clear expectations (market-specific).
Schedule flexibility: We build schedules to make field work sustainable, and we support smart routing and coordination so your day is predictable whenever possible.
Cutting-edge tech built for clinicians: Our charting tools are designed to reduce documentation burden, and our scheduling product (launching soon) will streamline visit coordination and reduce last-minute changes.
Mission-driven work: We are here to expand access to high-quality home health care, and we want therapists who take pride in raising the standard.
Requirements
- Must-haves
- Active Texas OT license (in good standing)
- Strong clinical judgment and comfort working independently in the field
- Comfort escalating changes in condition to RN/MD and documenting rationale clearly
- Strong communication and documentation
- Reliable follow-through on orders, frequencies, and patient goals
- Current driver’s license and comfort with daily travel across assigned territory
- Able to carry/transport basic therapy equipment as needed
- Competency in core home health OT scope (ADL/IADL training, home safety, adaptive equipment, caregiver education)
- Nice-to-haves
- Prior home health experience
- Homecare Homebase (HCHB) experience (or similar home health EMR)
- Role: Occupational Therapist (OT)
- Deeper experience in high-signal OT populations (neuro, CVA, fall risk, dementia/caregiver training)
- Strong organization and time management
Key Responsibilities
The Occupational Therapist Assistant will conduct in-home evaluations and deliver skilled therapy visits to restore patient function and independence. They are responsible for building care plans focused on safety and ADLs while coordinating effectively with the broader clinical care team.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Occupational Therapist Career Context
In Texas, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$95k (186 salary observations; 2,330 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (4,521 salary observations; 25,570 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 Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$90k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $93k in an average-cost state. 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Occupational Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA) at Adaptive Home Health a 6.0 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.
Location & Logistics
Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states. At the posted ~$90k midpoint, that is roughly $4k–$6k a year versus a typical 4–7% state rate.
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