occupational therapy assistant
Occupational therapy assistants support occupational therapists by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement. They work under the supervision of an occupational therapist.
Also called: support worker in occupational therapy, OT assistant, OT support worker, assistant in occupational therapy, occupational therapy rehabilitation assistant, technician in occupational therapy
- 24
- essential skills
- 22
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- occupational therapistWhat changes?21 skills in common
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Essential skills
24- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- community-based rehabilitation
- develop therapeutic relationships
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ergonomics
- exercise patience
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- hygiene in a health care setting
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
- occupational health
- occupational physiology
- occupational science
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- supervision of persons
- vocational rehabilitation
Optional skills
22- assist in performing physical exercises
- create individual treatment programmes
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a rehabilitation programme
- first aid
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- health care legislation
- human physiology
- kinesiology
- mechanotherapy
- neurology
- occupational therapy theories
- orthopaedics
- perform occupation analyses
- perform patient activity analyses
- physical medicine
- provide health education
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- rehabilitation
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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