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

Tasks for “Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist”

• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• 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.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• 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.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• 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.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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