Occupation Atlasoccupational therapy assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/82cbe20d-967c-4161-9ecd-eafc724d171c
occupational therapy assistant
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.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
SCRSocial · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.10
- C Conventional4.21
- R Realistic3.53
- I Investigative3.48
- A Artistic2.06
- E Enterprising1.14
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Occupational Therapy Assistants (31-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (24)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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
Optional (22)
- 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
O*NET equivalents
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