We’ve all received the email notification we’ve been dreading: It is re-registration time for Health Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) registrants and a stressful time for those who have been called for audit. What you will have noticed if you’ve already reregistered that there has been some additional equality monitoring information this time round and I… Continue reading HCPC Re-registration Time: What’s new, and what’s not?
Category: Newly Qualified Occupational Therapist
Not So Terrible Palsy Is 6!
Happy New Year and happy 6 years of blogging! I know, I’m quite good at writing a corny blog reflecting on previous years etc, etc. Therefore, this year I’ve been trying to think of what I can do that still marks the significance of my blog without getting too cheesy. I have a few blogs… Continue reading Not So Terrible Palsy Is 6!
Attending #CYPF 2024!
It was a highly momentous occasion for me to finally attend an in-person Children Young People and Families (CYPF) Conference (Royal College of Occupational Therapists Special Section, RCOT-SS) after attending the 2021 and 2022 conferences online. I have been looking forward to connecting to many of my colleagues within children’s occupational therapy for a while… Continue reading Attending #CYPF 2024!
Being a Student Whilst Working With Cerebral Palsy
Me again! As promised I wanted to make a real effort to not try and abandon my blog his year! Therefore, I thought I would go back to my old student blogs where it all started and reflect on what it feels like to be a student now whilst working. Last September I spoke about… Continue reading Being a Student Whilst Working With Cerebral Palsy
A Year Into Being an OT With CP
It’s been a while, at one point I was debating if they’d be a blog at all this month! The thought of not posting a blog for more than a month does not sit well with me. Therefore I thought why do not a general life update seen as it’s a year since I finished… Continue reading A Year Into Being an OT With CP
How My Ambitions Have Changed Since Qualifying
Happy Occupational Therapy Month (well it’s more predominant in the US but we’re going to go with it for the sake of the blog). Anyway, let’s get onto it… For Occupational Therapy Month I wanted to talk about my views of occupational therapy and how this has changed, not just since qualifying but in recent… Continue reading How My Ambitions Have Changed Since Qualifying
Going for Non-traditional Jobs Post-qualifying
Some of you may know that at the beginning of last month I started my first job post-qualifying, in fact, my first job ever!! It’s so great to finally be in the working world! My new job is a non-traditional role at the University of Huddersfield my official title is Clinical Demonstrator. I know, I’m… Continue reading Going for Non-traditional Jobs Post-qualifying
Why Does My Online Presence and My Clinical Practice Feel So Different?
Regardless of who we are and what we do, we all have different levels of confidence online than what we do in clinical practice. Yet, in this blog, I wanted to discuss the pressure that I put on myself in practice because I am so vocal online. Now, I feel extremely lucky that NSTP has… Continue reading Why Does My Online Presence and My Clinical Practice Feel So Different?
3 Years of Not So Terrible Palsy
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and a big shout out to those who have been working through the festive period. With the arrival of the New Year, NSTP gets a year older. It’s been a very organic growth, it wasn’t planned, it’s just the way it happened. I wanted to… Continue reading 3 Years of Not So Terrible Palsy
The Significant Impact That The Occupational Therapy Show 2021 Has Had on Me
As I’m beginning to write this post, it’s been a few days since I was at the NEC in Birmingham, and I am still on quite a high from The Occupational Therapy Show. I cannot wait to get into this blog, and ‘re-live’ the experience. Like many of us, I have had a lot… Continue reading The Significant Impact That The Occupational Therapy Show 2021 Has Had on Me

