From occupational therapy assistant to occupational therapist
21 of the 69 essential skills of a occupational therapist are already essential for a occupational therapy assistant — about 30% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from occupational therapy assistant in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 21
- skills carry over
- 48
- would be new
- 30%
- of the target job covered
- 69
- essential skills of a occupational therapist
What a occupational therapist does
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.
What carries over
21 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- community-based rehabilitation
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ergonomics
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- hygiene in a health care setting
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- interact with healthcare users
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
- occupational health
- occupational physiology
- occupational science
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- supervision of persons
- vocational rehabilitation
What would be new
48 skillsEssential for a occupational therapist and not for a occupational therapy assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise on environmental alterations
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assess risks for the elderly
- 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
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- health care legislation
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- identify the healthcare user’s personal capacity
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- neurology
- 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
and 8 more
Other moves from occupational therapy assistant
1 roles- speech and language therapist11 skills in common
← occupational therapy assistantoccupational therapist →The other way round
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How far are you from being a occupational therapist?
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