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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”

• 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.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• 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.
• 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.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• 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.
• 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

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

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