Description
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.
- • 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.
- • Manage intradepartmental infection control and equipment security.
- • Evaluate the living skills and capacities of clients with physical, developmental, or mental health disabilities.
- • Prepare and maintain work area, materials, and equipment and maintain inventory of treatment and educational supplies.
- • Instruct patients and families in work, social, and living skills, the care and use of adaptive equipment, and other skills to facilitate home and work adjustment to disability.
- • Supervise patients in choosing and completing work assignments or arts and crafts projects.
- • Assist occupational therapists in planning, implementing, and administering therapy programs to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance, using selected activities and special equipment.
- • Perform clerical, administrative, and secretarial duties, such as answering phones, restocking and ordering supplies, filling out paperwork, and scheduling appointments.
- • Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual and creative arts and games.
- • Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area.
- • Adjust and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to other equipment and to environments.
- • Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client's abilities or progress.
- • Accompany patients on outings, providing transportation when necessary.
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O*NET occupational data (work activities, skills, knowledge).
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
