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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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