occupational therapist
Code 2269.4
The occupational therapist (TO) enables participation in daily and work activities after injury, illness or disability. Use this Job Dictionary profile to define OT as distinct from kinesiology/physiotherapy.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- human anatomy
- occupational science
- professional documentation in health care
- ergonomics
- human physiology
- occupational physiology
- geriatrics
- hygiene in a health care setting
- medical informatics
- health care legislation
- physical medicine
- general medicine
- neurology
- orthopaedics
- pathology
- paediatrics
- psychology
- psychiatry
- community-based rehabilitation
- vocational rehabilitation
- sociology
- supervision of persons
- occupational therapy theories
- medical terminology
- movement techniques
Skills and competences
- advise on environmental alterations
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- create individual treatment programmes
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- develop a rehabilitation programme
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- assess risks for the elderly
- manage healthcare users' data
- identify the healthcare user’s personal capacity
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- promote inclusion
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- perform patient activity analyses
- perform occupation analyses
- undertake healthcare examination
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- interact with healthcare users
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- follow clinical guidelines
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use computer programs to improve patients' skills
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- educar a las personas cercanas en el cuidado del paciente
- educate on the prevention of illness
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- provide health education
- provide assistive technology
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- health care occupation-specific ethics
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What to assess for this role
Assess functional-assessment rigour, intervention plan and health-team work.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does an occupational therapist do?
- Assesses occupational performance and intervenes to restore autonomy at home, school or work.
- OT vs physiotherapist?
- PT stresses movement/physical rehab; OT stresses occupation and adapting environments/tasks.
- What to assess when hiring?
- Experience in the ad's setting (health, workplace, paediatric) and report quality.
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences