Description
Current Illinois COTA license required (or license-eligible new graduate).
Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) — join the most trusted therapy clinic in Southern Illinois.
Before you apply, we'd like you to do something unusual: research us. Google "Synergy Therapeutic Group Carbondale." Read our 235+ five-star reviews. Look at how long we've been here. Talk to people in the community. We want you to apply because of what you find — because the right person for this role is someone who chooses where they work as carefully as we choose who joins us.
Who we are: Synergy Therapeutic Group has been serving Southern Illinois families since 2004. We are not a hospital system. We are not a staffing company. We are an independent, founder-led clinic where the owners still treat patients every day — and where our belief shapes everything we do: the body is not broken, it's adapting. We provide root-cause, integrative, family-centered care for adults with chronic pain and children with developmental challenges.
What your workday actually looks like here:
Hands-on patient care — the reason you became a COTA. You'll treat, not push paperwork. Real one-on-one time with children and families under the direct mentorship of our co-founder, an OTR/L with over 32 years of pediatric experience.
Documentation that takes about 2 minutes per note. We've built our systems so charting doesn't eat your day or follow you home. Ask any therapist who's worked in a hospital or SNF what that's worth.
Hands-on training from day one. We don't hand you a caseload and disappear. You'll be trained in our clinical approach personally, by the founders — the kind of mentorship most clinicians never get access to.
Personal and professional growth, built in. Your continuing education is fully covered — 100%. As we grow our practitioner training programs, you grow with them.
No corporate productivity quotas. Your job is to help patients get better. That's the metric.
Benefits (full-time):
Total compensation: approximately $33–$36 per hour in real value. Here's the math we'll walk you through line by line:
Health insurance with employer-paid contribution toward your premium
Dental and vision coverage
Short-term AND long-term disability insurance
Retirement plan with employer match
100% CEU coverage — your Illinois continuing education requirements fully paid
Paid time off plus paid national holidays
What we're looking for:
Current Illinois COTA license (or license-eligible — strong new graduates welcome; we train)
A clinician who cares about why a patient isn't progressing, not just completing the visit
Warm, reliable, coachable, and genuinely curious about integrative, family-centered care
Someone looking for a professional home, not a stopover
Who this role is NOT for: if you're comparing jobs on hourly rate alone, we're probably not your clinic — and that's okay. If you're comparing on mentorship, meaningful work, respect for your time, and a place to build a career, read our reviews and apply.
Benefits:
Continuing education credits
Dental insurance
Disability insurance
Employee assistance program
Employee discount
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
License reimbursement
Life insurance
Opportunities for advancement
Paid time off
Professional development assistance
Retirement plan
Vision insurance
Requirements
License/Certification:
COTA
Ability to Commute:
Carbondale, IL 62901 (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
