#ChooseOT: Inspire future occupational therapists
#ChooseOT is our careers campaign to inspire future occupational therapists. We want to reach school students and their influencers, graduates and adults considering a career change.
You can get involved by sharing our careers website and videos and reaching out to schools.
#ChooseOT careers website
Our careers website is filled with inspiring stories and information about becoming an occupational therapist.
You can share the website on social media, in careers talks and with people interested in becoming an occupational therapist.
Careers talks in schools
You can inspire school students throughout the school year by giving a careers talk, either virtually or in person. Here are resources to support you: a guide to reaching out; an email for contacting schools; and a presentation and guide for your talk. These resources are available for download in English and bilingual Welsh/English
- Guide: Three steps to help you reach out to local schools – English (PDF, 158.56KB)
- Guide: Three steps to help you reach out to local schools –Welsh (PDF, 210.51KB)
- Template email for contacting schools – English (DOCX, 251.75KB)
- Template email for contacting schools – Welsh (DOCX, 273.52KB)
- Presentation for your careers talk – English (PPTX, 3.59MB)
- Presentation for your careers talk –Welsh (PPTX, 2.56MB)
- Presentation for your careers talk – bilingual Welsh/English (PPTX, 4.1MB)
- Guide: Careers talk and presentation – English (PDF, 784.86KB)
- Guide: Careers talk and presentation – bilingual Welsh/English (PDF, 1.02MB)
Videos of occupational therapists’ careers stories
You can share videos of occupational therapists sharing why they love the profession. You can also share these on social media link to our careers website.