How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • Home Care OT
  • Home Care Occupational Therapist
  • Home Health Occupational Therapist
  • Pediatrics and Acute Care Occupational Therapist

  • Assess, plan, and organize 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. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

  • Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
  • Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
  • Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.

  • Prepare reports summarizing patient diagnostic or care activities.
  • Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.
  • Supervise patient care personnel.
  • Train caregivers or other non-medical personnel.