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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)
• Early Intervention Occupational Therapist
• Assistive Technology Trainer
• Vocational Trainer
• Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
• Rehabilitation Engineer
• Job Trainer
• Industrial Therapist
• Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant”

• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• 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.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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