Bloomington, Indiana
Boston, Massachusetts
Posted: 03-Nov-24
Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico
Categories:
Internal Number: OCCUP002421
? Help clients with rehabilitative activities and exercises outlined in a treatment plan developed in collaboration with an occupational therapist.
? Monitor an individual?s activities to make sure that they are performed correctly and to provide encouragement.
? Record their client?s progress for the occupational therapist.
? Document the billing of the client?s health insurance provider.
? Prepare materials and assemble equipment used during treatment.
? Schedule appointments, answer the telephone.
? Restock or order depleted supplies, and fill out insurance forms or other paperwork.
? Alter treatment programs to obtain better results if treatment is not having the intended effect.
? Assemble, clean, and maintain equipment and materials for patient use.
? Design, fabricate, and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to equipment and environments.
? Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual and creative arts, and games.
? Evaluate the daily living skills and capacities of physically, developmentally or emotionally disabled clients.
? Implement, or assist occupational therapists with implementing, treatment plans designed to help clients function independently.
? Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, and the care and use of adaptive equipment.
? Monitor patients? performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement.
? Observe and record patients? progress, attitudes, and behavior, and maintain this information in client records.
? Order any needed educational or treatment supplies.
? Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients? progress, attitudes and behavior.
? Select therapy activities to fit patients? needs and capabilities.
? Work under the direction of occupational therapists to plan, implement and administer educational, vocational, and recreational programs that restore and enhance performance in individuals with functional impairments.
? Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client?s abilities or progress.
Requirements
Education
Required:
Associates
Preferred:
Technical/other training
Licenses & Certifications
Required:
C-Cert Occ Therapy Asst
Preferred:
C-CPI
C-BLS