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Job Description

Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1122.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 83,730.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 40.00
• Currently, there are 118,070 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Occupational Therapists”.

Also Known As…

• Occupational Therapists
• Staff Therapist
• Staff Occupational Therapist
• Rehabilitation Supervisor
• Registered Occupational Therapist
• Pediatric Occupational Therapist
• Occupational Therapy Co-Director
• Occupational Therapist (OT)
• Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant
• Early Intervention Occupational Therapist
• Assistive Technology Trainer
• Vocational Trainer
• Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
• Job Trainer
• Industrial Therapist
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Rehabilitation Engineer”

• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.

Related Technology & Tools

• Lathes
• Manual blood pressure cuffs
• Single-cut mill saw files
• Looms
• Video cameras
• Switch use tools
• Laptop computers
• Soldering irons
• Electric wheelchairs
• Power sanders
• Personal computers
• Video magnifiers
• Exercise balls
• Scooters
• Electric knives
• Braille printers
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Tongue switches
• Trackballs
• Adaptive cutlery
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Sewing machines
• Pressure care garments
• Gait and transfer belts
• Portable scanning pens
• Voice output communication aids
• Alternative computer keyboards
• Hoists
• Pulleys
• Joy sticks
• Saws
• Drill presses
• Wheelchairs
• Computer switch interfaces
• Weights
• Adjustable beds
• Wobble switches
• Trackpads
• Power drills
• Splints
• Resistive exercise bands
• Lift chairs
• Orthotics
• Goniometers
• Wheeled walkers
• Mechanical stethoscopes

• Internet browser software
• Text reader software
• Screen reader software
• Special education educational software
• Microsoft Office
• Physical education educational software
• Microsoft Word
• Tactile graphic production kits software
• Word processing software
• Math educational software
• Lexrotech LxPediatric
• OpenOffice WRITER
• Casamba Smart
• BillingTracker
• Crick Software Clicker 4
• Language arts educational software
• Synapse Adaptive Connect Outloud
• Text to speech software
• Mayer-Johnson Boardmaker
• Text scanning software
• Microsoft Excel
• FileMaker Pro
• HMS
• Science educational software
• Music software
• Speech recognition software
• Email software
• Social studies educational software
• Duxbury Braille Translator
• Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
• Screen magnification software
• Computer drawing software
• Spreadsheet software