This Opportunity:

Are you a passionate Occupational Therapist with a love for working with children? Do you thrive in creative, collaborative environments where your ideas shape innovative programming?

Join March of Dimes Canada’s Early Learning team and help empower children with disabilities to thrive through play, learning, and connection. Your work will directly impact the lives of children and families, helping them build essential life skills and confidence through inclusive, engaging programming.

We are looking for a full time, fully registered Occupational Therapist (OT) with experience in pediatrics to join our amazing team in Toronto, Ontario . If you are passionate, high-energy, fun and have a child-like imagination to go along with your stellar assessment/treatment skills then this opportunity is for you At MODC, we focus on the potential of our clients, while making programming fun.

The OT is responsible for the development and delivery of the new Early Learning program curriculum. You would be responsible for the provision of occupational therapy consultations, assessments, education sessions and group interventions to promote and facilitate the development of skills essential to daily living and promote functional independence. This role will promote the development of sensory processing abilities, fine and gross motor skills, and self-regulation/emotion regulation skills that support a child’s ability to function and engage in their home, school, play, and community environments.

While most of the responsibilities will take place during regular operating hours on weekdays,



this position may require you to work evenings and weekends as part of a 5-day work week.

This role involves active participation in group children's programs, including assisting with client transfers, setting up program spaces, and moving equipment. Candidates should be comfortable with bending, kneeling, and occasional lifting. Accommodations are available upon request.

This position primarily involves in-person work at 99 Duncan Mill Road during active program sessions, withpotential opportunity for hybrid work between sessions based on the program schedule. Travel may be required to other sites within the Greater Toronto Area. As this role may involve periods of non-clinical work between program sessions and during development,the ability to manage your own schedule and adapt to changing and evolving work responsibilities is essential.

Responsibilities:

This dynamic and unique role offersablendof indirect program development responsibilities and direct service delivery duties and is not an exclusively clinical position.

Program Development:

- Co-design classes for the Early Learning program; development of group programming and curriculum and activities for children and youth (infants/toddlers to 16 years old) with disabilities.
- Co-design parent workshops on relevant,



valuable topics for families who attend our programs.
- Implement and evaluate the effectiveness of various group class offerings and therapeutic group interventions. Opportunities for 1:1 direct occupational therapy intervention may be explored in future program offerings.
- Modify program curriculum based on feedback and integrate feedback into future program iterations.
- Create documents for program planning and development, prepare recommendations and rehabilitation plans, workplans and other tasks as needed.
- Consult and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams both internally (Knowledge to Action team, Marketing and Communications team, Early Learning, etc.) and in the community.
- Engage in special projects as assigned, both internally and with external partners.
- Contribute to planning, implementation and training during program expansion to other geographic locations.

Service Delivery:

- Conduct holistic semi-structured interviews and functional assessments to support the program intake process.
- Apply clinical judgement to assess clients and recommend optimal group class placement according to the clients’ individualized needs and areas for goal attainment using a strengths-based approach.
- Co-facilitate and instruct group classes in person.
- Co- facilitate parent workshops in person and/or virtually.
- Proactively identify and address any challenges that children and youth may have in group programs with regulation, activity engagement, sustained attention, social-communication, transitions, fine and gross motor skills.

📌 Occupational Therapist (Toronto)
🏢 March-of-Dimes-Canad
📍 Toronto