• Helps occupational therapy clients by providing rehabilitative services to persons with mental, physical, emotional, or developmental impairments.
• Provides services under the direction of licensed occupational therapist.
• Verifies client information by interviewing client, reviewing and recording medical history, confirming purpose of treatment.
• Helps clients improve their quality of life by helping them compensate for limitations
• Follows treatment plan developed in collaboration with occupational therapist
• Monitors activities to make sure they are performed correctly and provides encouragement, bringing treatment that is not having the intended effect to the attention of the therapist.
• Maintains patient occupational therapy records by recording client’s progress for use by the occupational therapist.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
• Keeps supplies ready and sanitized at all times
• Keeps equipment operating by following operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, and calling for repairs.
• Serves and protects the occupational therapy practice by adhering to professional standards, policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards.
• Enhances occupational therapy practice reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Occupational Therapy Assistant Qualifications / Skills:

• Documentation skills
• Scheduling
• Verbal communication
• Patient services
• Hospital environment
• Teamwork
• Use of medical technologies
• Bedside manner
• Dependability
• Health promotion and maintenance

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent, preferred
• Current licensure as Occupational Therapy Assistant in practicing state and/or nationally certified
• Current CPR certification
• Negative TB
• Bilingual preferred