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Clinician recruitment / Pediatric therapy

How to recruit pediatric OTs in a market where every clinic is hiring.

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Pediatric occupational therapists have options: clinics, schools, early intervention, home health, and hospital outpatient. Clinics that hire them consistently compete on four specific things and answer applicants fast.

This guide comes from running provider recruitment for a pediatric OT practice.

What pediatric OTs weigh

  1. Productivity expectations. The single most-asked question. State the expected billable percentage or visits per day plainly.
  2. Caseload and documentation time. Is documentation time built into the schedule or done after hours?
  3. Mentorship and growth. New grads and early-career OTs choose on supervision, continuing education, and specialty training (feeding, sensory, handwriting).
  4. Setting and schedule. Clinic-based, home-based, or hybrid; school-year rhythms; late afternoon caseloads when kids are out of school.
  5. Pay structure. Salary versus per-visit, and how productivity affects it.

Where to find them

Meta reaches working OTs by license and geography within employment ad rules. University OT programs and fieldwork placements build new-grad pipelines months ahead. Pediatric therapy communities and continuing-education events reach experienced clinicians. Your own past applicants, re-engaged, are the cheapest source of all.

The job ad

Pediatric OT, clinic-based, [City]. $[X] to $[Y], 80 percent productivity with documentation time scheduled. Weekly mentorship, paid feeding certification. Apply in 2 minutes, hear back in 1.

Reply speed wins

An OT applying to three clinics interviews with the first one that replies with real answers. Text every applicant within minutes, answer productivity and pay from an approved bank, and book the call. Templates on candidate follow-up texts.

Retention is recruiting

Pediatric OTs talk to each other. Reasonable productivity, real mentorship, and documentation time are the best recruiting campaign a clinic can run, because they show up in every referral.

Common questions

Straight answers

How do I recruit pediatric occupational therapists?
State productivity expectations, documentation time, mentorship, setting, and pay structure plainly in the ad; reach working OTs on Meta and new grads through university programs; and reply to every applicant within minutes with real answers.
What do pediatric OTs care about most in a job?
Productivity expectations first, then caseload and documentation time, mentorship and growth, setting and schedule, and pay structure.
How do I recruit new grad occupational therapists?
Build relationships with OT programs and fieldwork coordinators, offer structured mentorship and supervision, and recruit months ahead of graduation and licensure, with check-ins at the license date.
How do I recruit COTAs?
The same principles with emphasis on supervision structure, schedule, and pay. COTA roles respond well to short, specific ads and fast text replies.
Go deeper

pediatric therapy practice marketing, recruiting therapists, allied health recruitment, the candidate reply agent.

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