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Adaptive Home Health
Galveston, Texas

Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA)

Occupational TherapistNo weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$58/point

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
  • Location: Field-based (Galveston pod)
  • Comp: $58.00 per point

Who We Are

Adaptive Home Health is building a higher-acuity, patient-centered, skilled home health mode. Our ultimate mission is to dramatically improve patient access to home health care.

We build technology designed around the way clinicians actually work, so you can spend less time on documentation and coordination, and more time with patients.

Smarter charting: Record or dictate visits with AI Scribe, start with prefilled assessments, extract medication lists from photos, and keep all visit information in one easy-to-use place.

Scheduling that protects your time: Text patients, plan more efficient routes, and stay aligned on visit changes through one clear, coordinated schedule.

The result: less administrative burden, fewer coordination headaches, and more time for patient care.

What You Will Do

  • Deliver skilled COTA visits in the home under the supervising OT’s plan of care.
  • Execute functional treatment plans: ADLs/IADLs, safety/fall prevention, energy conservation, UE function, adaptive equipment training.
  • Track objective functional progress and communicate updates/concerns to the supervising OT.
  • Coordinate with nursing and the broader care team: escalate changes in condition and safety concerns.

Document Promptly and Thoroughly

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 COTA license (in good standing)
  • Strong clinical judgment and comfort working independently in the field (within COTA scope and under OT supervision)
  • Strong communication and documentation
  • Current driver’s license and comfort with daily travel across assigned territory
  • Nice-to-haves
  • Prior home health experience
  • EMR experience

Key Responsibilities

Deliver skilled occupational therapy assistant visits in patient homes according to the supervising therapist's plan of care. Coordinate with the broader care team to track functional progress and escalate any changes in patient condition or safety concerns.

Key Skills

Safety AssessmentClinical Documentation

Occupational Therapist Career Context

In Texas, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$94k (271 salary observations; 2,407 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (6,587 salary observations; 25,232 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)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Occupational Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.5% 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 7.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 5% in Occupational Therapy Assistant — ranked against 1,043 active Occupational Therapy Assistant listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Location & Logistics

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

Top OTA Jobs

3 matches · ranked by pay
#1

Cert Occupational Therapist Assistant, COTA

Kalesta Healthcare Group · Manteca, California

$48-$55/hr
#2

Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA)- $50 rate per visit W/Retention of 1,500

BrightStar Care - Rio Grande Valley, TX · Edinburg, Texas

$50/visit
#3

COTA / Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant - Home Health

$35-$40/hr
+ 1 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 7.9
Among the best 10% of Occupational Therapy Assistant listings for work-life

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

  • No weekends

Living in Galveston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$395k
Typical market rent
$1,405/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

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

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About Adaptive Home Health

Home Health Care Services
Richardson, Texas
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

AI Scribe
Scheduling that protects your time
Clear productivity model with upside
Schedule flexibility
Cutting-edge tech built for clinicians
Mission-driven work