To celebrate the New Year we're offering our T&Cs start up pack (ideal for independent OTs in need of a tailored set of T&Cs) at our Associate price of £75.....for everyone! That's a saving of £75! All you have to do is click the link below and then go to the T&Cs associates package option....this offer is only available until the end of Jan 2015 so don't miss out.....this really is unbeatable value and saves you ££££ on the price of a set of OT specific T&Cs created by solicitors for OTs in independent practice

After the stand had been put away for another year at The OT Show we made time to sit down and think through how it had gone, what we had learnt, what our plans might be for next years show & how this could affect our business as an independent OT service over the coming months.

With a vast range of assistive equipment and adaptation options available on the open market, making the right choices can be difficult. How do you know what is available and where best to go to buy the most appropriate and beneficial equipment? How do you know what is right for you? How do you know if a supplier is reputable?

With a vast range of assistive equipment and adaptation options available on the open market, making the right choices can be difficult. How do you know what is available and where best to go to buy the most appropriate and beneficial equipment? How do you know what is right for you? How do you know if a supplier is reputable?

As part of our attending The OT Show last month Inclusion.Me ran a competition to win 3 sets of our T&Cs start up pack alongside a free online personal styling session with the lovely people at Style-Box.

With a vast range of assistive equipment and adaptation options available on the open market, making the right choices can be difficult. How do you know what is available and where best to go to buy the most appropriate and beneficial equipment? How do you know what is right for you? How do you know if a supplier is reputable?

With a vast range of assistive equipment and adaptation options available on the open market, making the right choices can be difficult. How do you know what is available and where best to go to buy the most appropriate and beneficial equipment? How do you know if a supplier is reputable?

We're delighted to be attending The OT Show again this week and will be on stand A10 if you want to pop by to say hello.

I had been working as a senior OT for a Local Authority for a number of years which I enjoyed however due to the lack of career progression within my role, I wanted a new challenge.

Many of us know what it is to be older, or to have a disability, because it has happened to us or to someone we love.

I was working as an OT manager for Health and Social care; I loved my job and the team around me but found that I really missed the hands on clinical aspects of doing my job.

I’m glad I took the leap, but I wish I’d had the courage to jump a bit earlier in my career. I certainly wish I’d planned it a bit better at the start, so that the point I’m at now might have been a smoother journey.

Deciding to work for yourself in any profession is often an exciting but daunting prospect. Most OTs seem to say they started independent work confident in the professional services they could offer, but had little business acumen to support themselves on their journey.

I am passionate about OT and its underlying philosophy. I really enjoyed the majority of my work within statutory services; however I became increasingly frustrated and felt stagnant in my roles.

For a long time I'd been curious as to whether working independently as an Occupational Therapist could work for me. I was self employed for some time before I trained as an OT so had already had some experience of the book keeping side of things.

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To earn more money, and as my career took me into acute inpatient work, I wanted to keep my community, rehab, adaptation type work up to date.