Occupational Therapy Aides
Also called:
Rehabilitation Aide (Rehab Aide), Occupational Therapy Aide (OT Aide), Occupational Therapy Technician (OT Tech), Rehabilitation Services Aide
What they do:
Under close supervision of an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, perform only delegated, selected, or routine tasks in specific situations. These duties include preparing patient and treatment room.
On the job, you would:
- Encourage patients and attend to their physical needs to facilitate the attainment of therapeutic goals.
- Report to supervisors or therapists, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, attendance, and accomplishments.
- Observe patients' attendance, progress, attitudes, and accomplishments and record and maintain information in client records.
Business
Education and Training
- teaching and course design
Health
- therapy and counseling
- medicine and dentistry
Arts and Humanities
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
Social
- understanding people's reactions
- looking for ways to help people
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
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People interested in this work like activities that include
helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Concern for Others
- Social Orientation
- Initiative
- Self Control
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You might use software like this on the job:
Data base user interface and query software
- Data entry software
- Microsoft Access
Spreadsheet software
Medical software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
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high school diploma or
some college
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$28,200
per year, on average
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