AssistantAssociate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, Jefferson College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Thomas Jefferson University

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Philadelphia, PA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 29-10-2025
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Details

Are you seeking the opportunity to prepare forward-thinking occupational
therapists and conduct collaborative research projects with entry-level
occupational therapy doctorate (OTD) students

Is making a difference in the lives of individual and community clients an
important career goal

Would you like to contribute to leading-edge occupational therapy
programming

Consider joining our dynamic Department of Occupational Therapy ranked in the top 10 in the nation by US News & World Report.

This is a full-time 12-month teaching position in the Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program offered at the rank of assistant or associate professor (depending on experience) with a start date of July 1 2026. The position is located on Jeffersons Center City Philadelphia Campus.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will function as an integral member of the Jefferson OTD Program faculty team within the large Department of Occupational Therapy.

Specific responsibilities include:

Teaching content in an innovative OTD entry-level curriculum
Maintaining a faculty-centric scholarship agenda
Engaging in internal and external service
Participating in program development activities
Advising Doctoral occupational therapy students
Serving as a faculty mentor to occupational therapy students for their Doctoral
Capstone

Job Description

Qualifications:

Applicant must be an occupational therapist with

  • a terminal doctorate degree (e.g. OTD PhD EdD or ScD).
  • experience in teaching scholarship and service.

Applicant should demonstrate an interest in working in a highly collaborative and expansive academic environment which emphasizes excellence and innovation in occupational therapy education.

Interested candidates should submit an on-line application/CV at in the search box enter: REQ-0018688

Address additional questions to: Alison Bell OTD OTR/L Chair Search Committee at

For more information on Jeffersons OTD program please go to Shift

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Worker Sub Type

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Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

901 Walnut Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States of America

Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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