An Occupational Therapy Assistant, or Occupational Therapist Assistant, supports the Occupational Therapist in conducting therapy treatments to improve patients mobility and physical health. Their main duties include helping patients perform exercises or treatment plans, recording a patients health progress and collecting patients medical history or other personal information.

Occupational Therapy Assistants are responsible for treating patients with therapeutic and self-care activities. The job requires candidates to perform a variety of duties including the following:

" Monitoring a patient s progress to make sure that they re successfully completing treatment

" Encouraging the patient during their recovery process

" Helping patients to improve their quality of life by finding solutions to their problems

" Helping injure...