Eleanor

Hmmm.. You see I did have pins for equipment as I wasn't an OTA (a CCO is same grade as newly qualified OT), but completed my own OT assessments and interventions, including rehousing, minor and major adapts, etc. It's same pay grade as I'm on now I'm qualified. Now I can do manual handling, speciast seating, wheelchair assessment (before I'd do but had to get authorisation), and I generally just do more complex conditions and more multi-faceted cases. I mean I am an OT now and wasn't before, and I think about my work very differently, but I wouldn't be anywhere near as experienced in my role if I hadn't worked in the team doing a very similar role since 2011. However, like you say, it does seem to be post grad only, and I've been part-time and on maternity, so despite qualifying in 2018, it only counts as 2 years. Gutting! I'll update post when I find out for definate though. Thanks for all your responses.

Hi, Does anyone know if OTA or in my case Community Care Officer OT experience (basically unqualified OT doing same grade job) counts towards your experience for skilled work visa? I've heard it's only post-grad experience, but this limits me to a sponsored visa as don't have 3 years experience yet and I'm almost 40. Can anyone advise? Thanks, Eleanor (UK OT)