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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
• Rehabilitation Engineer
• Job Trainer
• Industrial Therapist
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Staff Therapist”

• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• 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.
• 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.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• 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.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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