Anyone doing Occupational therapy, or knows someone studying it ? (1 Viewer)

[pokemon4lyf]

Thinking about transferring courses next year, do you know how many days they go to uni ?
If you/the you know is liking the course and possibly what the pay and job prospects are like?
thankyou

 

[me-mfhs]

I have a friend who's studying it but I've got no idea what the course is like >_<!
But I just had a clinical placement where there were occupational therapists. These occupational therapists were working in a disability setting for children. They told me that they do a variety of things e.g. help children with Autism who had sensory problems such as being over sensitive to touch; putting dangerous things in their mouths etc. Another occupational therapist was helping a parent of a child who had a disability in terms of finding a suitable pram, wheelchair etc.

I've got no idea about job prospects, but here's the NSW Health site where you can get an idea of the salary I guess?
http://www7.health.nsw.gov.au/healt...e4ddda912-356AB205-9673-EC2E-8F7275B6D0344082

Look at Occupational Therapist Level 1/2 -> for new grads


If the link above doesn't work, try this one: http://www7.health.nsw.gov.au/healthjobs/Default.cfm?ID=1

If all else fails type on google "NSW Health jobs"

Hope that helps!!


~ From a speech pathology student

 

[Kaye7]

I went to USYD Info Day's OT talk and speaker said almost always you'll get one day off! So that's about 4 days at uni.