Occupational Therapist / OTR
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Job Description
- Occupational Therapist
- Job Type: Full-time
- Schedule: Flexible, up to 40 hours per week
- Setting: Nursing Home, Rehabilitation Center, Skilled Nursing Facility
- Location: Metropolis Nursing & Rehabilitation - Metropolis, IL
Aegis Therapies, one of the nation’s leading providers of rehabilitation and wellness services, is hiring an Occupational Therapist to join our supportive team and reap the benefits of some of the best career advantages in the industry.
Why Aegis Therapies
Career Growth & Development: We invest in your future with specialized, ongoing training, career advancement opportunities and the strongest clinical support in the industry.
Flexibility - Redefining Work-life Balance: We offer you the opportunity to maintain flexibility and a healthy work-life balance, so you never have to choose between your career and the things that make life worth living.
- Impactful Work: Make a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients.
- Supportive Environment: Collaborate with teams that value your expertise and dedication.
Benefits
- Support, local clinical mentorship, clinical education and unlimited CEUs
- Create your own career path: clinically, management, etc.
- Flexible schedule, paid time off, plus one paid CEU day
- Licensure and professional membership reimbursement
- Interdisciplinary collaboration for providing the best patient care
- Medical, dental, vision within 30 days or less
- National opportunity to transfer while maintaining employment status
- Multiple settings nationwide: CCRC, SNF, Assisted Living, Outpatient Clinics, Home Health
- New Grads Welcomed!
- And much more
Qualifications
Current license as an Occupational Therapist or ability to obtain in the state of practice.
If you enjoy working in geriatrics and have a current Occupational Therapy license, we would like to discuss what is most important to you. Aegis Therapies is committed to designing jobs to meet your needs.
Let us help find the career of your dreams! Apply Today.
EEO Statement
Aegis Therapies and its Family of Companies is committed to a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For detailed information on your rights, Click Here OR aegistherapies.com.
Key Responsibilities
Provide occupational therapy services to patients within a nursing home and rehabilitation setting. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Occupational Therapist Career Context
In Illinois, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$93k (258 salary observations; 920 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 Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Of the 50 active Occupational Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% have no call, 78% require no weekends.
Aegis Therapies ranks #6 of 23 employers hiring Occupational Therapist on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay.
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 / OTR at Aegis Therapies a 7.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 5% in Occupational Therapy — ranked against 9,471 active Occupational Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements.
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