Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapist Assistants - Find an occupational therapy job on our free job site. Employers of occupational therapy professionals can post their full-time, part-time and on-call positions for free.

You can search for Occupational Therapist Jobs (OTR) and Occupational Therapist Assistant Jobs (COTA) in one of 100 different regions of the United States, and may choose if and when you wish to reply to any particular job listing. When and if you find a position you are interested in, you may use email, phone, fax or regular US mail to contact the employer.

Alternatively, OTs and COTAs (or any other occupational therapy professional such as rehab managers or aides) can broadcast their resumes to hospitals, home health agencies, school districts, rehab companies, skilled nursing facilities and outpatient clinics that will contact the therapists if they have an opening.

We have a complete listing of all occupational therapy state license boards on our links page, as well as a bookstore with OT related literature.

Please click on the logo at the top of this page in order to visit our flash-animated home page. And don't forget to tell your friends!

______________________________________________________________

You might find the following industry outlook by the BLS interesing (find the link to the whole report on our Links page):

• Employment is projected to increase over the 1998-2008 period, but due to the effects of Federal limits on reimbursement for therapy services, the majority of expected employemnt growth is expected to occur during the second half of the projection period.
• Occupational Therapists are increasingly taking on supervisory roles.
• More than 1/4 of occupational therapists work part-time.
• The median annual earnings of occupational therapists were $48,230 in 1998. The middle 50 percent earned between $39,140 and $68,570 a year. Nursing facilities paid the most, followed by hospitals and then schools.

______________________________________________________________

For young people doing a report, here is what OTR's do:

Occupational therapists help people improve their ability to perform tasks in their daily living and working environments. They work with individuals who have conditions that are mentally, physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabling. They also help them to develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills. Occupational therapists not only help clients improve basic motor functions and reasoning abilities, but also compensate for permanent loss of function. Their goal is to help clients have independent, productive and satisfying lives.

Occupational therapists assist clients in performing activities of all types, ranging from using a computer, to caring for daily needs such as dressing, cooking and eating. Physical exercises may be used to increase strength and dexterity, while paper and pencil exercises may be chosen to improve visual acuity and the ability to discern patterns. A client with short-term memory loss, for instance, might be encouraged to make lists to aid recall. A person with coordination problems might be assigned exercises to improve hand-eye coordination. Occupational therapists also use computer programs to help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, problem solving, and perceptual skills, as well as memory, sequencing, and coordination - all of which are important for independent living.

For more information on what OT's do, visit the American Occupational Therapy Association: AOTA