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

Tasks for “Staff Occupational Therapist”

• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• 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.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• 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.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• 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.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• 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.
• 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

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

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