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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”

• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• 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.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical 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.
• 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.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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