FacultyAcademic Fieldwork Coordinator

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Job Description

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will function as an integral member of the Jefferson Occupational Therapy Department faculty and an Academic Fieldwork Coordinator across Jeffersons Center City and East Falls campuses.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Coordinate multiple ongoing projects and communicate effectively with community partners entry-level program directors and faculty
• Collaborate with administrative staff across the OT department to ensure program compliance and ACOTE standards are met for all OT programs
• Collect and interpret data for fieldwork curriculum development across three OT programs
• Advise students on developing skills needed for site specific learning objectives
• Ensure students meet site health and onboarding requirements for fieldwork
• Schedule and confirm student placements across the department

• Advise students and fieldwork educators related to experiential learning
• Maintaining a faculty-centric scholarship agenda
• Engaging in internal and external service

Qualifications:

• Applicant must:
  • be an occupational therapist
  • have a masters degree or higher
  • have experience as an academic fieldwork coordinator or fieldwork educator
  • possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
  • demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills
• Applicant should demonstrate experience and skill in teaching collaboration and sustaining partnerships
• Applicant should be open to novel and dynamic processes to support students through experiential learning
• Experience in innovative program development and serving the community is highly preferred

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

Address additional questions to: Mary Muhlenhaupt OTD OTR/L FAOTA Program Director at

For more information on Jeffersons OTD program please go to 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.

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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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