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Job Description
Position Type:
Paraprofessionals/Occupational Therapy Assistant
Date Posted:
7/17/2025
Location:
District Wide
Closing Date:
07/31/2025
Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
District Wide
24 hours per week/38 weeks per year | Monday-Friday |
Starting Pay $24.18/hr, increases with experience + Benefits
*This position is from 8/26/25-11/25/25*
Brief Job Description:
Assists occupational therapists, and other educational staff, by providing services to children with exceptional educational needs. Follows a treatment plan, developed by an occupational therapist, to improve, develop, restore or maintain a child's active participation in self-maintenance, work, leisure, and play in educational environments, consistent with State and federal laws and District policies.
Minimum Qualifications:
Requires a minimum of an associate's degree as an occupational therapy assistant; or, an equivalent combination of education or training necessary to successfully perform the essential functions of the work.
Certification or Licensing Requirements:
State of Minnesota licenses with MDH and certification with AOTCB
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
Body mechanics with regard to lifting, transferring, positioning and body ergonomics.
Recording and observation of student's performance and progress.
Devising schedules in various buildings to meet the occupational therapy needs of students.
Implementing treatment plans for students in accordance with their IEP needs.
Providing weekly updates to occupational therapists, which might require changes in students' needs and Individual Education Plans (IEP'S).
Good communication skills, including concise documentation skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills and good rapport with students, staff and parents.
Ability to travel in sundry weather conditions, maintain travel logs, and be punctual and flexible.
Ability to be professional and confidential at all times.
In addition to rewarding career opportunities, Duluth Public Schools offers an excellent benefit package to employees who are hired into positions scheduled to work 24 hours/week or more. Benefits include, but are not limited to the following:
Medical/Prescription Drug Plan with Health Reimbursement Arrangement- Single Coverage - District pays 100% of premium (FREE) + contributes $2,612.50 into HRA annually
- Family Coverage - District pays 75% of premium (25% employee contribution) + contributes $5,225.00 into HRA annually
- Single Coverage - District pays 100% of Basic premium (FREE)
- Family Coverage - District pays 25% of Premium
- District provides minimum of $50,000 of life insurance at no cost, employee may purchase supplemental life insurance
- District-provided at no cost to employee
- Employees may elect to contribute on a pre-tax basis to Health Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care Accounts
- The District contributes 7.25% of your total salary in the Public Employees Retirement Association) pension plan.
- Employees may also elect to participate in Tax-Shelter Annuity options.
- Each bargaining unit contract defines time off provisions such as holidays, sick/personal leave, vacation, etc.
If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at 218-336-8722 or email noncerthr@isd709.org
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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Duluth Public Schools
Show moreDuluth, or Onigamiising in Ojibwe, is the seat of St. Louis County, the largest city in the northern two-thirds of Minnesota, and the fourth largest city in the state. It is located on the western tip of Lake Superior and its city limits encompass 67 square miles of land and nearly 50 square miles of water. It is part of the Twin Ports metropolitan statistical area which includes all of Wisconsin's Douglas County, and Minnesota's Carlton, Lake, and Saint Louis counties which boasts a population of 291,638, ranked as the 170th largest metropolitan area in the United States.
After years of building economic diversity, Duluth is growing into a robust regional economic, medical, aviation, higher education, outdoor recreation and arts center. Duluth has long been recognized as an innovative region that is supported by a wide variety of services and industries, including the largest, farthest inland freshwater port, the Port of Duluth-Superior.
The city also boasts a vibrant arts culture, home to art museums, theater, and numerous festivals throughout the year. It is the home of two colleges and a university whose local sports teams include nationally ranked and championship teams.
Duluth Public Schools offers an excellent, competitive and comprehensive benefits program, which includes medical, prescription drug, dental, life, and disability coverage. A pension plan, tax-sheltered annuities program, flexible spending accounts (FSA), health care savings plan and employee assistance program round out the district’s robust benefits program.
The district pays a significant portion of the premium for medical hospitalization, dental and prescription coverage for employees and dependents and offers Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) funding.
The district also has generous provisions for vacation, holidays, family and medical leave and other types of paid and unpaid leave. The district recently added Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth to our list of paid holidays.
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