Occupational Therapist
REF 1643500
11.10.2024 | Abu Dhabi | full time
- General
- Location: Abu Dhabi
- Occupancy: full time
- To join : within 1 month
- Description
- An occupational therapist is responsible for empowering patients to participate more fully in daily tasks when this ability is compromised by a health condition. Occupational therapy is medically prescribed and involves skilled evaluation, treatment, and discharge.
Occupational therapists help people learn or re-learn the tasks that are necessary for healthy, meaningful, day-to-day living. These are referred to as “occupations“ and include:
> Basic self-care activities like dressing and bathing (called activities of daily living)
> More complex activities that help you take care of yourself and your home (called instrumental activities of daily living)
> Conducting physical and psychological assessments of clients and developing or following a treatment plan.
> Assessing home and work environments of clients and deciding what adjustments are needed.
> Advising on adaptive equipment to help clients with daily activities.
> Developing physical rehabilitation programs to help clients regain lost skills.
> Preparing clients for a return to work.
> Educating caregivers and family members of clients on patient care.
> Evaluating results and progress of occupational therapy on clients.
> Maintaining professional knowledge and the technical progress in order to provide clients with the best treatment program available.
- Requirements
- A bachelors degree in occupational therapy from a university certified by the ACOTE (Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education) or AOTA (American -Occupational Therapy Association).
Certified by the National Board for Certification.
Compliant with state healthcare regulatory requirements.
Possess up-to-date knowledge of treatment practices and physical therapy programs.
- Provisions
- Salary: to be discussed
- Employment visa provided
- Medical insurance
- Publisher
- direct employer
- more than 200 employees