How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • 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.

  • Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
  • 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.
  • Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
  • Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
  • Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
  • 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.

  • Design public or employee health programs.
  • Develop treatment plans that use non-medical therapies.
  • Direct healthcare delivery programs.
  • Prepare medical supplies or equipment for use.
  • Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.