Core Faculty Position
Instructor
Academic Fieldwork Coordinator
Occupational Therapy Assistant Program
- Collaborate with students to identify interests, career goals, learning strengths and opportunities, life context, and accessibility needs.
- Actively coach students in fieldwork site selection.
- Actively address actions for improving student success during Level I fieldwork.
Support for Educators
- Create infographics, video, online and in-person workshops that explain the Harcum OTA curriculum and implications for fieldwork.
- Survey educators about continuing professional development needs related to practice education.
- Support fieldwork educators in exemplifying Harcum OTA’s commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Actively address educator actions for improving student success during Level I fieldwork
.Instructional Design and Teaching
- Design and implement occupation-centered courses that prepare students for fieldwork.
- Design and implement continuing education for fieldwork educators in practice education theory and methods.
- In collaboration with Harcum faculty, design and implement Level I experiences involving 32 hours of active learning experiences in practice settings that help students transfer didactic learning to practice.
- Create and maintain Canvas sites for fieldwork related courses.
Fieldwork Site Recruitment and Development
- Increase the program’s pool of community fieldwork partners whose work aligns with the Harcum’s OTA curriculum framework.
- Coach new sites in developing learning outcomes and objectives that reflect the Harcum OTA curriculum framework.
- Collaborate with Harcum legal personnel and OTA staff to establish contractual agreements with all sites.
- Ensure all sites are knowledgeable and committed to Harcum’s equity, diversity, and inclusion learning practices.
- Conduct site visits.
Fieldwork Scholarship
- Conduct and disseminate collaborative research related to occupation-centered learning in Fieldwork.
- Develop and implement outcomes, policies, procedures, materials and assessments for the Harcum’s OTA fieldwork program.
- Systematically collect and analyze fieldwork data to assess outcomes.
- Collaboration with staff to manage fieldwork databases, ensuring all regulatory and program specific requirements are met and all site information is current.
- Continually revise Fieldwork handbook, fieldwork website.
- Ensure all fieldwork accreditation standards are met.
- Contribute fieldwork data to ACOTE self-study and annual reports.
- Actively participate in all curriculum design, development, and assessment with particular emphasis on integrating fieldwork and coursework.
- Represent Harcum’s OTA program at regional and national meetings.
- Assume leadership roles in regional and national fieldwork initiatives.
- Participate in committees within the department, Harcum College, and Philadelphia Fieldwork Consortium.
- Collaborate with the department team, making positive and critical contributions.
Level I Fieldwork Credit Release Time per year = 10 credits
Instructor Credit Load = 20 credits
Total Credit Load per Academic Year = 30 credits
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Occupational Therapist with Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree required licensed in PA or COTA/L with a Bachelor's degree (not necessarily in OT) and Associates in OT
- Teaching experience in higher education preferred
- Ability to work collaboratively with all college faculty and administration
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse populations and to provide leadership and direction in bringing diverse constituents together
- Driver’s license and car in good working order
ABOUT HARCUM COLLEGE
Harcum College is an independent, coeducational, fully accredited, residential college. The
College was founded in 1915 and offers associate degrees in multiple disciplines. Today,
Harcum has career-informed degree programs on its Bryn Mawr Campus, west of Philadelphia,
programs online, and at area Partnership Sites serving close to 1,000 students.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Harcum provides a comprehensive benefits/ healthcare package including retirement savings, tuition pay programs and competitive pay based on experience.
Resumes must include salary requirements for consideration of employment.
NOTE: This is an IN-PERSON position. Please include a cover letter and resume including work history.
Harcum College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer