occupational therapy assistant (EN)
ISCO 2269 · v1.2.1
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.
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Source aliases (EN)
- support worker in occupational therapy
- OT assistant
- OT support worker
- assistant in occupational therapy
- occupational therapy rehabilitation assistant
- technician in occupational therapy
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 24
- hygiene in a health care setting
- exercise patience
- occupational physiology
- empathise with the healthcare user
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- community-based rehabilitation
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- supervision of persons
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- develop therapeutic relationships
- follow clinical guidelines
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- vocational rehabilitation
- listen actively
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- occupational science
- interact with healthcare users
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- occupational health
- movement techniques
- ergonomics
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
Optional (EN) · 22
- develop a rehabilitation programme
- health care legislation
- assist in performing physical exercises
- orthopaedics
- perform patient activity analyses
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- general medicine
- occupational therapy theories
- human physiology
- deal with emergency care situations
- geriatrics
- neurology
- provide health education
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- rehabilitation
- create individual treatment programmes
- perform occupation analyses
- mechanotherapy
- physical medicine
- kinesiology
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- first aid
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