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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 “Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant”

• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• 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.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• 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.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• 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.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• 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.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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