If you are someone who loves to help people, if you are practical, enjoy problem solving, and experience huge satisfaction from empowering others then Occupational Therapy is the field for you. I find...

The challenges

Some challenges are the time constraints and sometimes feeling like you might not have enough time in the day or week to give your best care to the client/patient. This is a challenge and confronts yo...

May 2021

OT is a very challenging carer but helping someone be more independent makes it all worth it.

Reviewer's Qualification

Bachelor of Occupational Therapy

Experience

1 – 4 years

Organisation size

Large (200+ employees)

Specialisation

Disability NDIS

The good things

Make a difference in people's lives. By implementing AT, Mods, or therapy you can help a client go from being reliant on others to having more independence in their daily life.

The challenges

Loss of clients Pressures of working in NDIS - need to justify everything and can not be wholistic. Constant problem solving

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