Clinical Director – Occupational Therapist

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About the role

  • Clinical Director leading Mud Club’s gaming-based pediatric occupational therapy program across Canada. Strengthening clinicians, clinical systems, and neurodiversity-affirming virtual care.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the clinical quality and direction of Mud Club’s occupational therapy services
  • Lead, mentor, and support Occupational Therapists
  • Establish standards for OT/OTA supervision and delegation
  • Develop and maintain clinical policies, processes, best practices, SOPs, and decision frameworks
  • Oversee quality assurance, documentation, continuity of care, clinical risk management, and professional standards
  • Provide complex clinical consultation and escalation
  • Develop and evaluate new services
  • Manage clinical staffing, capacity, and service planning
  • Collaborate with families when higher-level clinical support is needed
  • Strengthen clinical reasoning, decision-making, competency, and performance development across the team
  • Partner with the Lead OTA & Trainer on onboarding, training, and professional development
  • Identify program patterns and convert them into improved systems, training, and supports
  • Strengthen supervision structures, escalation pathways, quality-review processes, member transitions, family communication, regulatory and privacy practices, and outcome improvement
  • Work across clinical, programming, operations, and technology teams
  • Provide clinical direction for programming, therapeutic tools, facilitation approaches, new services, community experiences, and member and family resources
  • Partner with organizational leadership on staffing, service capacity, clinical risk, and strategic planning
  • Evaluate how gaming, VR, AI, digital communities, and new technologies can support occupational therapy practice

Requirements

  • Registered Occupational Therapist in Canada
  • Significant experience supporting children and adolescents, ideally including neurodivergent youth
  • Excellent clinical reasoning
  • Experience mentoring and developing other clinicians
  • Understanding of neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based practice
  • Comfortable supervising and supporting OT/OTA models
  • Ability to navigate complex clinical and family situations
  • Clear and thoughtful communication
  • Ability to identify patterns and build practical systems
  • Ability to balance professional standards with innovation
  • Comfortable collaborating across disciplines
  • Comfortable making decisions and being accountable
  • Experience developing clinical programs, competency frameworks, quality-assurance systems, or scalable healthcare services is a strong asset
  • Experience with virtual care, gaming, Minecraft, VR, or online communities is useful but not required

Benefits

  • Benefits included

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$110,000 - CA$120,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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