Facilitate healthcare user’s engagement in occupations

Identify meaningful and healthy occupations and strategies in partnership with the healthcare user, to enable him to reach his goals.

enable healthcare users to engage in healthy occupations
support healthcare user’s engagement in occupations
improve healthcare user’s strategies for engagement in occupations
facilitate healthcare users’ engagement in useful occupations
enable healthcare users to engage in useful occupations

skill/competence

sector-specific

Facilitate healthcare user’s engagement in occupations is an essential skill of the following occupations:

Occupational therapist: Occupational therapists assist individuals or groups who have occupational limitations due to diseases, physical disorders, and temporary or permanent mental disabilities, in regaining their ability to perform daily activities. They provide treatment and rehabilitation to enable them to actively participate in society, to live their lives according to their wishes and to perform those activities that are meaningful to them.
Occupational therapy assistant: Occupational therapy assistants support occupational therapists by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement. They work under the supervision of an occupational therapist.

Facilitate healthcare user’s engagement in occupations is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.

References

1. Facilitate healthcare user’s engagement in occupations – ESCO