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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
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Industrial Therapist”

• 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.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• 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.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• 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.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• 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.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• 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.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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