Our strategy and values
Our strategy
Our five-year strategy, launched in 2022, guides our efforts to reach more people and create wider positive impacts. It was developed in collaboration with occupational therapists, members, colleagues and senior allied health profession leaders.
The focus is on delivering short and long-term action plans that make the biggest impacts, based on our strengths, our members’ needs and the greatest opportunities for us to support occupational therapy and therapists across the UK.
Rise Up
We will rise up to be bold, progressive advocates and champions – raising our profile and voice so that more people understand the power of what occupational therapists do.
Open Up
We will open up to new opportunities and people – joining forces, forming alliances, and getting more people to see occupational therapy as the solution to their needs.
Lift Up
We will lift up every occupational therapist and support them to be the best they can be throughout their entire career – by offering them the best community, resources and tools that help them to succeed.
Build Up
We will build up our organisation and culture to be dynamic, high performing and values-led – using insights and data to inform and drive us to achieve our purpose.
Steve Ford, RCOT CEO, talks about our strategy
Our values
We live and breathe our values. They describe what matters to us. They show how everyone here at RCOT acts and makes decisions as individuals and as one team. And they drive us in our approach to achieving our vision and purpose.
We Impact
- We find new and better ways to make things happen.
- We are brave and bold in our ideas and actions.
- We challenge ourselves, each other and the status quo.
We Challenge
- We find new and better ways to make things happen.
- We are brave and bold in our ideas and actions.
- We challenge ourselves, each other and the status quo.
We Elevate
- We lift up and support others to be and do their best.
- We are accessible and collaborative.
- We are united and move forward together, even if we sometimes disagree.
We Respect
- We value each other and celebrate our differences.
- We are approachable, genuine and trustworthy.
- We listen to others and believe everyone's views should be heard.