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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 “Staff Therapist”

• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• 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.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• 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.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• 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.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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