occupational therapy assistant
ISCO: 2269. Skills: 46. Essential: 24.
Essential skills
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- community-based rehabilitation
- develop therapeutic relationships
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ergonomics
- exercise patience
- 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
- listen actively
- 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
Supporting skills
- assist in performing physical exercises
- create individual treatment programmes
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a rehabilitation programme
- first aid
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- health care legislation
- human physiology
- kinesiology
- mechanotherapy
- neurology
- occupational therapy theories
- orthopaedics
- perform occupation analyses
- perform patient activity analyses
- physical medicine
- provide health education
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- rehabilitation
- work in multidisciplinary health teams