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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
• Industrial Therapist
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Job Trainer”

• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• 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.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• 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.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• 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.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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