occupational therapist
ISCO: 2269. Skills: 86. Essential: 69.
Essential skills
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- advise on environmental alterations
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- assess risks for the elderly
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
- communicate in healthcare
- community-based rehabilitation
- 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
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ergonomics
- follow clinical guidelines
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify the healthcare user’s personal capacity
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- interact with healthcare users
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
- neurology
- occupational health
- occupational physiology
- occupational science
- 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
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- supervision of persons
- undertake healthcare examination
- use computer programs to improve patients' skills
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- vocational rehabilitation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist in performing physical exercises
- bobath therapy
- disorders affecting self-awareness
- first aid
- identify research topics
- manage occupational therapy students
- mechanotherapy
- neuropsychology
- osteopathy
- pedagogy
- provide early intervention therapy to infants
- psychotherapy principles
- public health
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care