occupational therapist
Occupational therapists assist individuals or groups who have occupational limitations due to diseases, physical disorders, and temporary or permanent mental disabilities, in regaining their ability to perform daily activities. They provide treatment and rehabilitation to enable them to actively participate in society, to live their lives according to their wishes and to perform those activities that are meaningful to them. Occupational therapists work in public health and social care services, but can also be involved in supporting asylum seekers, refugees and/or homeless people.
Also called: vocational rehabilitation counsellor, expert occupational therapist, practitioner of occupational therapy, rehabilitation counsellor, expert practitioner of occupational therapy, rehabilitation therapist, ergotherapist, specialist in occupational therapy
- 69
- essential skills
- 17
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
69- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- advise on environmental alterations
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- assess risks for the elderly
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- community-based rehabilitation
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- create individual treatment programmes
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop a rehabilitation programme
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ergonomics
- follow clinical guidelines
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify the healthcare user’s personal capacity
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- interact with healthcare users
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
- neurology
- occupational health
- occupational physiology
- occupational science
- occupational therapy theories
- orthopaedics
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform occupation analyses
- perform patient activity analyses
- physical medicine
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide assistive technology
- provide health education
- provide nursing advice on healthcare
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- psychiatry
- psychology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- supervision of persons
- undertake healthcare examination
- use computer programs to improve patients' skills
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- vocational rehabilitation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional skills
17- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist in performing physical exercises
- bobath therapy
- disorders affecting self-awareness
- first aid
- identify research topics
- manage occupational therapy students
- mechanotherapy
- neuropsychology
- osteopathy
- pedagogy
- provide early intervention therapy to infants
- psychotherapy principles
- public health
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
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