✨ Where Passion Meets Purpose—Join Our Team ✨

At Common Threads, we do things a little differently—and that’s exactly the point.

We’re looking for a compassionate, creative, and relationship-driven Occupational Therapist to join our growing team. If you're seeking a role where collaboration is meaningful, your insight is respected, and student support is rooted in trust and connection, you may be right at home here.

Does this sound like you?

• You believe that sensory and motor development is deeply connected to emotional well-being and regulation.

• You're excited to work on a transdisciplinary team—alongside educators, mental health professionals, and SLPs—to support the whole child.

• You approach your work with curiosity, flexibility, and a belief in student-centered, strengths-based practice.

• You're passionate about neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed care that fosters autonomy, access, and self-advocacy.

We are...
A mid-sized nonprofit on Madison’s East Side with a big heart and a clear mission:
To empower autistic and neurodivergent students, and those with mental health needs or sensory differences, through individualized, trauma-informed, strength-based services.

At Common Threads, we believe that learning and development happen in the context of safe, trusting relationships. We support each student’s unique journey by building connection, honoring identity, and working collaboratively across disciplines.

What you’ll find at Common Threads:
✅ A collaborative and supportive team culture
✅ Time built in for thoughtful planning and communication
✅ A program grounded in respect, inclusion, and co-created success
✅ A space where your voice, ideas, and expertise are genuinely valued

What Your Day Will Look Like:

As the Occupational Therapist at Common Threads, you will support autistic and neurodivergent students in developing the sensory, motor, executive functioning, and adaptive skills that help them access their environments and engage meaningfully throughout the day. You'll collaborate closely with a transdisciplinary team—including special education teachers, speech-language pathologists, mental health specialists, and classroom staff—to co-create student-centered supports that are rooted in regulation, relationship, and respect.

You’ll work in a dynamic, flexible school setting where your clinical insight informs daily programming. In addition to direct student support, you’ll contribute to planning, consultation, and environmental design, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and caregiver partnership.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited program

• Current Wisconsin licensure and NBCOT certification

• Experience supporting neurodivergent youth, especially those with sensory processing, regulation, or motor planning needs

• Strong understanding of trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and strength-based practices

• Experience with school-based populations, including collaboration on IEPs and team-based service delivery

• Familiarity with frameworks such as the Interoception Curriculum and/or Universal Design for Learning is a plus

Full-time employees are eligible for health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, a professional development stipend, and a retirement account with company match. Common Threads is a public student loan forgiveness program qualifying employer.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to maintain stamina and adjust body positioning to support students in various settings and activities, including but not limited to standing, crouching, sitting for extended periods of time, supporting student safety, and use of various equipment, as directed by related service providers and supervisors.

• Ability to move quickly when necessary to ensure student, staff, and own safety.

• General computer use including typing and screen time.

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Common Threads is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, Common Threads complies with laws prohibiting discrimination against employees or qualified applicants for employment in hiring or in any decision affecting job status or pay on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, religion, color, gender, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, cultural differences, ancestry, physical appearance, arrest record or conviction record, military participation or membership in the national guard, state defense force or any other reserve component of the military forces of the United States, or political beliefs, or any other status protected by federal, state, and/or or local laws.

Common Threads and all subcontractors agree not to discriminate on the basis of disability in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the Wisconsin Statutes secs. 111.321 and 111.34, and Chapter 19 of the Dane County Code of Ordinances.