Occupational Therapist Intern
Sunrise Hills Therapeutic Center
Total years of experience :2 years, 2 Months
• Designing individual and group programs and activities to enhance clients’ independence in everyday activities.
• Developing coping strategies for clients in overcoming their mental health issues.
• Improving clients’ confidence and self esteem in social situations.
• Encouraging clients’ to participate in daily activities/ programs provided by a healthcare professionals.
• Using specialized assessments to determine the functional requirements of various jobs, and clients’ capacity to return to work. • Designing and coordinating graded return to work programs. • Modifying the work environment to suit the needs of individuals so as to prevent or minimized injuries. • Gained understanding of individual's therapies, activities of daily living, occupational engagement and life roles/routines.
• Helping children achieve their developmental milestones such as fine motors skills, gross motor skills and eye-hand coordination.
• Educating and involving parents, caregivers and others to facilitate the normal development and learning of the children.
• Performed and documented initial evaluations; identified patient goals; planned, modified and implemented treatment; evaluated progress and completed re-evaluation.
• Additional school based OT experience was obtained.
• 8 weeks pediatric outpatient experience serving children with feeding disorders, learning disabilities, developmental delay, neuromuscular conditions, sensory processing disorder, and pervasive developmental disabilities.
• Gained experience with clinical observation, caregiver interviews and consultation, administration of pediatric assessments, intervention planning/implementation, activity/equipment analysis, and daily documentation. Specialized experience gained in feeding/swallowing assessment and intervention.
• Helping clients regain or enhance their daily lives after specific events such as hip replacement or stroke.
• Assessing and modifying clients’ home and community environment to improve their safety and independence.
• Prescribing and educating clients and caregivers in the use of adaptive equipment to assist function
• Monitoring clients’ function and progress, prescribing adaptive/assistive equipment to ensure safety upon discharge from the hospitals
• Assessing clients’ cognition, function and psychosocial needs.
• Assisted therapists with patient care including transfers, exercise, modalities.
• Designing individual and group programs and activities to enhance clients’ independence in everyday activities.
• Developing coping strategies for clients in overcoming their mental health issues.
• Improving clients’ confidence and self esteem in social situations.
• Encouraging clients’ to participate in daily activities/ programs provided by a healthcare professionals.
• Using specialized assessments to determine the functional requirements of various jobs, and clients’ capacity to return to work.
• Designing and coordinating graded return to work programs.
• Modifying the work environment to suit the needs of individuals so as to prevent or minimized injuries.
• Selling both new and used cars as well as finance and related product.
• Selling and promoting new and used cars.
• Demonstrating vehicles to customers, including taking them for drives.
• Reporting to the vehicle Sales Manager on activities, reviews and analyses.
• Meeting customers face to face and holding sales discussions with them.
• Representing the company at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations.
• Negotiating the terms of a sales agreement and closing sales.
• Following-up in-bound telephone enquiries, walk in prospects and emails enquiries.
• Arranging appointments via Internet Leads.
• Preparing car purchase packages.
• Cold calling up qualified sales prospects.
• Delivering vehicles to customers.
• Liaising with the showroom body shop to ensure that vehicle repairs are carried out quickly.
• Selling both new and used cars as well as finance and related product.
• Selling and promoting new and used cars.
• Demonstrating vehicles to customers, including taking them for drives.
• Reporting to the vehicle Sales Manager on activities, reviews and analyses.
• Meeting customers face to face and holding sales discussions with them.
• Representing the company at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations.
• Negotiating the terms of a sales agreement and closing sales.
• Following-up in-bound telephone inquiries, walk in prospects and emails inquiries.
• Arranging appointments via Internet Leads.
• Preparing car purchase packages.
• Cold calling up qualified sales prospects.
• Delivering vehicles to customers.
• Liaising with the showroom body shop to ensure that vehicle repairs are carried out quickly.
