Occupational Therapist - Cognitive Performance (Remote)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review cases and summarize the facts of each case and assess issues involved in the case to certify or non-certify requested treatments.
- Provide written clinical rationales for CA Workers Compensation cases.
- Review, organize and identify all medical records provided for CA workers comp cases.
- Monitor timeliness of reviews to ensure applicable standards are met.
- Consistently meet production and quality standards.
- Perform special projects as assigned such as legal research, general medical research, etc.
- Work on special projects to improve CA IMR project or other special projects as assigned.
- Become a subject matter expert (SME) using job aides and learning tools.

- Conduct comprehensive cognitive performance evaluations using standardized assessment tools and validated neurocognitive testing platforms.

- Perform occupational analysis to identify performance barriers related to mission tasks and task-person-environment mismatches contributing to performance degradation.

- Identify cognitive risk factors impacting readiness, including sleep disruption, operational fatigue, stress load, and mild traumatic brain injury history.

-Translate cognitive assessment findings into mission-relevant performance applications.

- Develop individualized cognitive performance plans targeting executive functioning, attention control, stress regulation, mental agility, and recovery strategies.

- Deliver group-based cognitive training and performance workshops.

- Implement cognitive rehabilitation protocols for operators returning from injury, illness, or cognitive performance degradation.

- Provide in-training environment coaching to enhance real-time cognitive performance during operational tasks.

- Design and execute cognitive skills development programs aligned with Special Operations Forces mission demands.

- Provide services in both garrison and operational training settings as required.

- Educate Service Members on cognitive resilience, fatigue mitigation, workload management, and recovery best practices.

Develop proactive programming to prevent cognitive decline and performance loss.

- Collaborate with the Human Performance team, including psychology, strength and conditioning, medical, nutrition, chaplain, and leadership partners, to synchronize individualized and group performance plans.

- Participate in interdisciplinary case conferences, performance reviews, and care coordination meetings.

- Collaborate with Cognitive Performance Professionals to support integrated planning, implementation, and evaluation of resilience programming.

- Advise leadership on aggregate cognitive readiness trends, risk factors, and mitigation strategies while ensuring compliance with privacy, confidentiality, and applicable DoD regulations.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of experience consulting within designated function.

- Master's or Doctoral degree in Occupational Therapy fro...