After carefully considering the different views and findings from our community discussion events, we’ve decided to support the addition of a pre-registration doctoral level entry route into the occupational therapy profession in the UK.
This will be an additional route – it will be one of many options for entering the profession.
In January 2022, we held a series of community discussion events to collect your views and listened to those you shared online too.
Your views were wide and varied and from these, eight themes have emerged.
- Value
- Visibility
- Viability
- Expectations
- Perceptions
- Equity and diversity
- Accessibility
- Clarity of vision
These themes will give us focus as we work with education providers, employers and workforce leads, people accessing occupational therapy services and people with diversity of lived experiences to establish this additional route.
You can find out more about each theme in our project summary.
Events for ongoing community dialogue
To support this, we’re hosting a series of events for ongoing community dialogue.
We want to work with you to make sure this route is accessible and meets the needs of the profession and people accessing services.
In these sessions, you’ll be able to explore these themes and help identify the immediate and ongoing actions that are needed.
- Thursday 16 June, 6–7pm: People who access occupational therapy services
- Monday 20 June, 1–2pm: Workforce leads, commissioners and employers
- Monday 20 June, 6–7pm: Pre-registration learners
- Thursday 23 June, 8.30–9.30am: Practice educators
- Monday 27 June, 6–7pm: People with diversity of lived experience
- Wednesday 29 June, 12–1pm: Pre-registration programme teams
Find more about each theme and the project in our summary.