How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • Home Care OT
  • Home Care 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.

  • Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
  • Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
  • Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
  • Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
  • Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
  • Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
  • Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.

  • Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
  • Encourage patients or clients to develop life skills.
  • Evaluate patient functioning, capabilities, or health.
  • Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
  • Prepare reports summarizing patient diagnostic or care activities.
  • Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.
  • Record patient medical histories.
  • Supervise patient care personnel.
  • Train caregivers or other non-medical personnel.