4.9 KiB
4.9 KiB
Competences — occupational therapist
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/33da5532-8c4e-4d1b-b52e-c201ee1bc7ab).
Essential
- advise healthcare users on occupational health (skill/competence)
- advise on environmental alterations (skill/competence)
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent (skill/competence)
- apply context specific clinical competences (skill/competence)
- apply techniques of occupational therapy (skill/competence)
- assess risks for the elderly (skill/competence)
- assist healthcare users achieve autonomy (skill/competence)
- communicate in healthcare (skill/competence)
- community-based rehabilitation (knowledge)
- comply with legislation related to health care (skill/competence)
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice (skill/competence)
- contribute to continuity of health care (skill/competence)
- create individual treatment programmes (skill/competence)
- deal with emergency care situations (skill/competence)
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship (skill/competence)
- develop a rehabilitation programme (skill/competence)
- educate on the prevention of illness (skill/competence)
- empathise with the healthcare user (skill/competence)
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring (skill/competence)
- ensure safety of healthcare users (skill/competence)
- ergonomics (knowledge)
- follow clinical guidelines (skill/competence)
- general medicine (knowledge)
- geriatrics (knowledge)
- health care legislation (knowledge)
- health care occupation-specific ethics (knowledge)
- human anatomy (knowledge)
- human physiology (knowledge)
- hygiene in a health care setting (knowledge)
- identify the healthcare user’s personal capacity (skill/competence)
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges (skill/competence)
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities (skill/competence)
- interact with healthcare users (skill/competence)
- manage healthcare users' data (skill/competence)
- medical informatics (knowledge)
- medical terminology (knowledge)
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment (skill/competence)
- movement techniques (knowledge)
- neurology (knowledge)
- occupational health (knowledge)
- occupational physiology (knowledge)
- occupational science (knowledge)
- occupational therapy theories (knowledge)
- orthopaedics (knowledge)
- paediatrics (knowledge)
- pathology (knowledge)
- perform occupation analyses (skill/competence)
- perform patient activity analyses (skill/competence)
- physical medicine (knowledge)
- professional documentation in health care (knowledge)
- promote inclusion (skill/competence)
- provide assistive technology (skill/competence)
- provide health education (skill/competence)
- provide nursing advice on healthcare (skill/competence)
- provide stroke rehabilitation services (skill/competence)
- psychiatry (knowledge)
- psychology (knowledge)
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment (skill/competence)
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance (skill/competence)
- respond to changing situations in health care (skill/competence)
- sociology (knowledge)
- supervision of persons (knowledge)
- undertake healthcare examination (skill/competence)
- use computer programs to improve patients' skills (skill/competence)
- use e-health and mobile health technologies (skill/competence)
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation (skill/competence)
- vocational rehabilitation (knowledge)
- work in a multicultural environment in health care (skill/competence)
- work in multidisciplinary health teams (skill/competence)
Optional
- assist children with special needs in education settings (skill/competence)
- assist in performing physical exercises (skill/competence)
- bobath therapy (knowledge)
- disorders affecting self-awareness (knowledge)
- first aid (knowledge)
- identify research topics (skill/competence)
- manage occupational therapy students (skill/competence)
- mechanotherapy (knowledge)
- neuropsychology (knowledge)
- osteopathy (knowledge)
- pedagogy (knowledge)
- provide early intervention therapy to infants (skill/competence)
- psychotherapy principles (knowledge)
- public health (knowledge)
- use clinical assessment techniques (skill/competence)
- use foreign languages for health-related research (skill/competence)
- use foreign languages in patient care (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 65 ads, as of 2026-07-18)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- occupational therapy — 42 %