Starting out in your paediatric occupational therapy (OT) career is an exciting and important time! This is when you get to put all of your amazing knowledge and passion into action by helping to support your clients to live their best lives.
Many new early career OT's enter the profession feeling super energised and motivated to get to work. This is wonderful, but it's also important to have a realistic understanding about what it’s truly like to be a paediatric OT. Knowing about all aspects of the job, including those that might be a bit more tricky to manage will help you with your expectations and to know when to ask to for help.
This e-book is a simple guide, highlighting the key things that the Stepping Stones and Stepping Up teams wished they'd known as early career OT's. We hope that these tips will help to ease you into your career as a paediatric OT.
