What is good about your occupational therapy course?
"I found out about occupational therapy because I was
a special needs officer at university and also I worked in
the student union and I was involved in quite big projects.
Whilst I was there we got an exterior glass corridor put onto
the listed building taking wheelchair users from one side
of the building to the university bar. Which is a very important
part of student life. I found out about occupational therapy
when all the other students were going to graduate training
just before my finals and the university special needs officer
said to me 'What you have been doing is occupational therapy.'
So I had that in my mind when I left university. So then I
went to phone around the colleges and this college said that
although they were taking graduates, the graduates would have
more chance on getting on the course if they had in occupational
therapy and that most people were occupational therapy assistants
for a year before applying. Then I got a job by sending my
CV out to all these hospitals and I worked at Queens Square
as an occupational therapy assistant for a year."
Interviewer "Oh right, and how since getting onto the course, how was that from moving from being an assistant with that experience to being a student now?"
Its a really good challenge to move on from being an OT assistant to actually going to the course and being a student."
Student Three
