- Company: Care Career
- Location: Hugo, Lincoln County
- Salary: $2,366/wk
- Full Time
- Hugo, Lincoln County
- $2,366/wk
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- $2,366/wk
Care Career at a glance
carecareer.comSEC filings mentioning "Care Career": 21 — search EDGAR
Care Career staffs travel clinical roles. Public DATA here does not describe founding history, size, or ownership, so treat the firm mainly as the placement employer for this assignment.
Care Career is now hiring a Travel Occupational Therapist in Hugo, Lincoln County, Colorado — a 13-week travel therapy assignment paying $2,366 per week and ready to start on July 6, 2026.
About the Role
This is a full-time, on-site travel contract for a licensed Occupational Therapist who is ready to bring their skills to a healthcare team in Hugo, Colorado. The position falls under the Therapy discipline and is scheduled for 40 hours each week across 10-hour day shifts over a 13-week duration. The advertised pay package of $2,366 per week is calculated on 10-hour shifts and 40.0 hours weekly, subject to confirmation. (Care Career Job ID 37204491.)
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate patients and develop individualized occupational therapy treatment plans.
- Deliver hands-on therapy to help patients regain independence in daily living and functional activities.
- Track patient progress and adjust care plans to meet evolving rehabilitation goals.
- Maintain accurate, timely clinical documentation in line with facility standards.
- Collaborate with the broader care team to coordinate effective, patient-centered outcomes.
Qualifications
- Active, valid Occupational Therapist license appropriate for practice in Colorado.
- Background or training in the Therapy discipline as an Occupational Therapist.
- Availability to commit to the full 13-week assignment beginning 07/06/2026.
- Flexibility to work 10-hour day shifts totaling 40 hours per week on site in Hugo.
- Willingness to travel and adapt quickly to a new clinical environment.
About Care Career
Care Career connects qualified healthcare professionals with rewarding travel assignments across the country. By matching skilled clinicians like Occupational Therapists to facilities that need them, Care Career helps therapists advance their careers while delivering quality patient care in communities such as Hugo, Lincoln County.
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What people say about Care Career
- Engineering Principles and Values
- Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
- Ask HN: Eliminating Impostor Syndrome?
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)
Recent news
- To solve the health care worker shortage, start in high school - Stand Together
- Layoffs, closures tracker: Dignity Health cuts 139 employees - Modern Healthcare
- Christian Pulisic’s World Cup was a microcosm of his career, not evidence he doesn’t care - The Athletic - The New York Times
- Author reflects on career providing care in rural Alaska in 'Medicine at 50 Below' - KUAC
- Factor these 4 facets of VA primary care into your career choice - VA News (.gov)
Aggregated from public discussions and news; opinions are the authors’ own.
Working in Hugo, Lincoln County
🇺🇸 Relocation safety for US: Exercise Normal Caution — via Warnely, CC BY 4.0
National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 208,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in US: 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in US: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in US: 1,800 — via OECD
About this role & career path
Aligned with O*NET Occupational Therapists (29-1122.00): assess function, plan therapy, track outcomes, and keep clinical records across hospital, institutional, or community settings.
Traits that fit this role
- Sincerity
- Optimism
- Adaptability
- Perseverance
- Empathy
Source: O*NET Work Styles (Distinctiveness Rank).
Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require graduate school -- for example, a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. — via O*NET
Industry news
- Ardian acquires German healthcare staffing platform Pflegia - Staffing Industry Analysts
- Private Equity Healthcare Acquisitions – May 2026 - Private Equity Stakeholder Project PESP
- West Virginia investing $1.8 million in rural healthcare staffing as residents struggle - WVOW Radio
Source: O*NET (public-domain bulk data)
Salary & compensation
The posting advertises $2,366 per week for this travel OT role. No independent pay bands, benefits, or review-site averages are in DATA.
Workers in Healthcare Practitioners & Technical occupations earn a national median of $71,383 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Build the skills for this role
- Functional assessment and goal setting from medical data
- Program design for disability, illness, or injury recovery
- Progress notes, reports, and charting discipline
- Activity selection for work, school, and life-management skills
- Walk through a full OT eval-to-discharge episode with measurable goals
- Explain travel readiness: credentialing, documentation speed, facility onboarding
- Describe how you adapt plans when progress stalls
Best for licensed OTs comfortable with travel staffing, rural Oklahoma placement logistics, and high documentation load. Company-specific culture signals are thin in DATA; weight the clinical and travel fit over brand narrative.
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Listing facts
- Role Travel Occupational Therapist – $2,366 per week
- Employer Care Career
- Location Hugo, Lincoln County
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) $2,366/wk
- Posted June 15, 2026
- Apply by 2026-07-28
- Country context US
- Overview Full original description on this page (299 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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Typical work in Travel Occupational Therapist
Independent occupational context from O*NET (U.S. public-domain labor data). This is about the occupation, not a rewrite of this employer's posting.
- Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
- Complete and maintain necessary records.
- Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
- Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
- Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
- Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
Public discussions & open sources
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- Hacker News — Engineering Principles and Values
- Hacker News — Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
- Hacker News — Ask HN: Eliminating Impostor Syndrome?
- Hacker News — Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)
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