What were your hopes when you first trained as an OT? How have your expectations been fulfilled?
Many OTs are facing a turning point in their careers. With the political and financial situation in the NHS, the promise of a safe and secure job is no longer available. This coupled with the increasing devaluation of your skills which, many of you describe, means that the job for which you trained has changed. Many newly qualified OT’s are finding that jobs just do not exist.
People often get “stuck” when they start thinking about change. Worries about pensions and security come to the surface. Confidence issues nag at us telling us we can’t do anything else. Time constraints reinforce the difficulty we perceive in moving forward. Attachment to our job title can often stop us seeing our skills in broader sense.
We offer individual coaching for OT’s provided by OTs. We also run workshops on “re-crafting work” a term coined by positive psychologists, which involves analysing your strengths and crafting your work life to enable greater fulfilment and balance (sometimes avoiding massive job changes all together!)
So whether you want to start your own independent OT service, start a totally different business, change career direction, write that book which has been nagging at you for years, retrain in something completely different, move to France and paint or own a vineyard, we believe you can do it! Now is your time to shine!
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