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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)
• Early Intervention Occupational Therapist
• Assistive Technology Trainer
• Vocational Trainer
• Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
• Rehabilitation Engineer
• Job Trainer
• Industrial Therapist
• Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant”

• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• 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.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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