Portfolio Careers: The OT Practice Enabling You to Excel
Working in the private sector either full-time, or alongside another role, offers you the opportunity to develop a flexible, self-managed portfolio career around a collection of your skills and interests. In this article we interview Sarah Doyle, who is responsible for looking after our Therapist Network, as she outlines how The OT Practice empowers you to be the OT you want to be while providing you with the clinical and administrative support that enables you to excel. She also shares some of the reasons why over 300 occupational therapists across the UK choose to work with us and how they deliver refreshing therapy input.
What types of cases does The OT Practice have available for OTs?
With a wide referral base across the UK including local authorities, schools, the NHS, case managers and charities, you will be supported to develop the professional and clinical competencies required to meet the needs of a variety of clients and build your career portfolio. Familiar to many therapists, are opportunities to work with clients in the community with long-term conditions or assisting an NHS hospital with discharge planning. However, there are also opportunities to work with clients involved in catastrophic accidents who require complex moving and handling assessments, housing adaptions or therapy input for several months. With this, comes the ability to really make a difference to your client by exploring bespoke equipment solutions like the ones seen at exhibitions vital to keeping you up to date on the latest technological advances, such as The OT Show and Naidex. This offers you flexibility to build upon your statutory service career.
What are the benefits of working autonomously with The OT Practice?
Our independent practitioners often feel a greater sense of autonomy to manage their workload and make decisions based on their clinical judgement and the individual needs of their clients and, therefore, they enjoy innovative and creative approaches to therapy. We are often asked if The OT Practice is similar to an agency? And the answer is no. In fact, we differ greatly because we focus on empowering you as an independent clinician, encouraging you to explore new ways of working and develop a strong ability to reason your clinical approach. You decide where and when you work – we simply support you to successfully represent yourself as a professional and together we provide excellent client services to our referrers nationwide.
How does The OT Practice ensure high standards and enable me to excel?
By encouraging a culture of collaboration and communication, we pride ourselves on providing a strong platform for our OTs to enhance their skills and translate their knowledge into new ways of working. High quality care, consistent with professional standards, is at the forefront of our thinking and clinical justification for recommendations remains a top priority of ours. When working with us on new and exciting cases, we will ask you to continually demonstrate your understanding of the impact occupational therapy will have on your clients.
To do this, we take a unique approach to professional development. We have an in-house Quality Assurance Team that provide you with feedback on the quality of your clinical documentation and the effectiveness of your outcomes. Our support gives you confidence in your professional reputation and develops a motivational sense of accountability for work you can take pride in. The OT Practice recognise the power of what our OTs can achieve, and we have a passion to enable OTs to excel towards far reaching professional growth.
You may have found yourself asking, where do I start? Where do I find the perfect clients? Where can my skills make a difference? Will this work around my personal commitments? Followed closely by the many practical considerations: how do I keep my notes secure or am I safe to practice? The practical and logistical elements of working in private practice can be resolved when you know the right questions to ask, and working with The OT Practice provides you with the answers you need.
Our commitment to providing high-quality care and support to our network of independent practitioners is unmatched and our unique approach to helping OTs build a portfolio career can help you experience new challenges. Therefore, working with The OT Practice undoubtably excels your career as an occupational therapist and together, we achieve.
Be the OT you want to be and get in touch today. We offer a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle as a self-employed associate or alternatively join our team of employed therapists with full and part time opportunities available.
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