occupational therapy assistant
Code 2269.5
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.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- occupational science
- ergonomics
- occupational physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- community-based rehabilitation
- vocational rehabilitation
- supervision of persons
- movement techniques
Skills and competences
- Colaboración con proveedores de atención médica
- Fomentar la participación activa del paciente
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop therapeutic relationships
- listen actively
- interact with healthcare users
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- follow clinical guidelines
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
Transversal competences
- exercise patience
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- health care occupation-specific ethics
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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