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Career: Occupational Therapists
Job Description
Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that help restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to disabled persons.
Job Tasks
Importance %age |
Task Description |
100
|
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. |
100
|
Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients. |
100
|
Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental and physical capabilities. |
100
|
Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress. |
100
|
Complete and maintain necessary records. |
100
|
Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy. |
100
|
Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities. |
100
|
Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs and coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities. |
97
|
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. |
97
|
Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces and computer-aided adaptive equipment. |
97
|
Conduct research in occupational therapy. |
97
|
Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students and nurses and other medical staff. |
97
|
Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination and perceptual skills, using computer programs. |
97
|
Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions. |
94
|
Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work and school skills and adjust to handicaps. |
91
|
Provide patients with assistance in locating and holding jobs. |
88
|
Advise on health risks in the workplace and on health-related transition to retirement. |
Work Activities
Importance %age |
Activity Description |
85
|
Assisting and Caring for Others
|
79
|
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
|
76
|
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
|
76
|
Thinking Creatively
|
74
|
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
|
74
|
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
|
71
|
Getting Information
|
71
|
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
|
70
|
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
|
69
|
Analyzing Data or Information
|
68
|
Training and Teaching Others
|
68
|
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
|
65
|
Documenting/Recording Information
|
65
|
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
|
65
|
Coaching and Developing Others
|
64
|
Handling and Moving Objects
|
64
|
Processing Information
|
62
|
Developing Objectives and Strategies
|
61
|
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
|
60
|
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
|
58
|
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
|
58
|
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
|
57
|
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
|
57
|
Scheduling Work and Activities
|
56
|
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
|
55
|
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
|
53
|
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
|
53
|
Performing General Physical Activities
|
51
|
Developing and Building Teams
|
49
|
Performing Administrative Activities
|
46
|
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
|
44
|
Staffing Organizational Units
|
42
|
Interacting With Computers
|
39
|
Selling or Influencing Others
|
38
|
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
|
36
|
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
|
31
|
Controlling Machines and Processes
|
24
|
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
|
17
|
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
|
17
|
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
|
16
|
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
|