Assistant Occupational Therapist

An assistant occupational therapist is a kind of support worker who works with an occupational therapist to carry out daily supervision. An Assistant Occupational Therapist can fulfill the responsibilities of an occupational therapist and is thus known as an assistant practitioner.

Responsibilities of an Assistant Occupational Therapist

The level of responsibility varies from different occupational departments but there are some necessary responsibilities which are given below:

• To support clients to help them progress towards the targets agreed with the occupational therapists and then reporting the progress.
• To update the patient’s records is also the responsibility of an Assistant Occupational Therapist.
• An Assistant Occupational Therapist is also required to conduct simple assessments in regard to the needs of the patients and their progress level.
• He needs to monitor how the patient is dealing with the medicines given to him and report his daily living functions to the Occupational Therapists.
• Assistant Occupational Therapist needs to show the clients how the equipments are used and also checks whether all the equipments are in proper working condition.
• An assistant Occupational Therapist must maintain a proper liaising with the social services and the nursing staff.
• He is responsible for conducting initial interviews with the patients to obtain complete information and then provide the occupational therapist with the details.
• He must be ready to carry out all the group activities and his own individual activities with complete care.
  

There is no formal listing that states the entire responsibilities but the above mentioned responsibilities are the most important ones to be accomplished. An assistant occupational therapist can gain more expertise with years of services but if he has the following traits in his nature, no one can stop him from creating a name for him.

• An assistant occupational therapist must have a caring and encouraging attitude towards all.
• Tact, sensibility and patience are the three gems that make an accomplished assistant occupational therapist.
• To convince the patients that they are in safe hands, it is pivotal for the assistant occupational therapist to have good communication and interpersonal skills.
• An assistant occupation therapist has to work with patients of all ages and of different cultural backgrounds which means that he has to be an open-minded individual with a pleasing personality.
  

All these above mentioned can make a nice human being and only a nice human being can be a successful assistant occupational therapist.

Nowadays many departments are employing assistant occupational therapists who have technical knowledge and have taken some training in the past. All this has been done because the working of an assistant occupational therapist can not afford to encounter any mistake.

If you are looking forward to become an accomplished assistant occupational therapist, nurture the skill to adapt according to the environment. Anyone who has a general know-how about human development and who meets the qualifications can become an assistant occupational therapist.