From speech and language therapist to occupational therapist
39 of the 69 essential skills of a occupational therapist are already essential for a speech and language therapist — about 57% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from speech and language therapist 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.
- 39
- skills carry over
- 30
- would be new
- 57%
- 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
39 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
- neurology
- paediatrics
- pathology
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- psychiatry
- psychology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
30 skillsEssential for a occupational therapist and not for a speech and language therapist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- advise on environmental alterations
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- assess risks for the elderly
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- community-based rehabilitation
- create individual treatment programmes
- develop a rehabilitation programme
- ergonomics
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- identify the healthcare user’s personal capacity
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- occupational health
- occupational physiology
- occupational science
- occupational therapy theories
- orthopaedics
- perform occupation analyses
- perform patient activity analyses
- physical medicine
- provide assistive technology
- provide nursing advice on healthcare
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- sociology
- supervision of persons
- undertake healthcare examination
- use computer programs to improve patients' skills
- vocational rehabilitation
Other moves from speech and language therapist
2 roles- orthoptist39 skills in common
- physiotherapist35 skills in common
← speech and language therapistoccupational therapist →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a occupational therapist?
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