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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 Rehabilitation Specialist
• Rehabilitation Engineer
• Job Trainer
• Industrial Therapist
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Vocational Trainer”

• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• 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.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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