{"id":7766,"date":"2018-03-11T00:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T08:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2020-07-16T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:22:56","slug":"reasonable-workload-school-based-occupational-therapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/11\/reasonable-workload-school-based-occupational-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a reasonable workload for a \u00a0school-based occupational therapist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is a reasonable workload for a school-based occupational therapist? What percentage of time should a school-based occupational therapist be seeing clients vs performing other duties?<\/p>\n

There are few guidelines or rules to answer these questions. That makes it especially difficult for a new occupational therapist who is working in a district on his own (like me). Here are some thoughts and datapoints for you on the subject:<\/p>\n

From the AOTA Workforce Survey<\/a> (I think the data is from 2014),  “How OT Practitioners Spend Their Time in Different Settings”<\/p>\n

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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction created a guideline document in 2016. I found it here<\/a>. You can find a local archive of it here:  Workload-document-and-formulas.2016<\/a>. This creates a formula to determine workloads for occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists.<\/p>\n

Another useful source is the OTSalary.com<\/a> site. It is billed as “The only open source OT salary survey designed by and for OT practitioners. Knowledge is power.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is a reasonable workload for a school-based occupational therapist? What percentage of time should a school-based occupational therapist be seeing clients vs performing other duties? There are few guidelines or rules to answer these questions. That makes it especially difficult for a new occupational therapist who is working in a district on his own (like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupational-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}