Frequently Asked Questions
What even is an Occupational Therapist?
- To understand what an Occupational Therapist is it helps to understand that the word ‘occupation’ isn’t just your job, it’s anything you do to occupy your time.
- Occupational Therapy is a therapeutic profession designed to use a whole person perspective to help people achieve optimal health and wellbeing through participation in the occupations of life.
- Occupational Therapy is a registered profession, and all Occupational Therapists must hold a university degree in Occupational Therapy, typically either a Bachelor or Masters.
- Occupational Therapists work with people across the whole lifespan – children, adolescents, adults and elderly people. They work in hospitals, rehab centres, mental healthcare, workplace ergonomics, aged care facilities, schools, and community settings (that’s where you’ll find our OTs!).
- After you’ve worked with us you’ll understand what an Occupational Therapist is to you, but no two persons occupational goals are the same and that’s why we love what we do.
What is an Occupational Therapist?
- To understand what an Occupational Therapist is, it helps to understand that the word ‘occupation’ isn’t just your job, it’s anything you do to occupy your time.
- Occupational Therapy is a therapeutic profession designed to use a whole person perspective to help people achieve optimal health and wellbeing through participation in the occupations of life.
- Occupational Therapy is a registered profession, and all Occupational Therapists must hold a university degree in Occupational Therapy, typically either a Bachelor or Masters.
- Occupational Therapists work with people across the whole lifespan – children, adolescents, adults and elderly people. They work in hospitals, rehab centres, mental healthcare, workplace ergonomics, aged care facilities, schools, and community settings (that’s where you’ll find our OTs!).
- After you’ve worked with us you’ll understand what an Occupational Therapist is to you, but no two persons occupational goals are the same and that’s why we love what we do.
How much does Adapt OT charge for services?
- NDIS Participants and TAC clients are invoiced at hourly rate set by the respective funding agencies.
- Home Care Package and self-funded clients: $140 per hour
- Travel: charged at the hourly rate
- Reports and other non-face to face tasks: charged at the hourly rate
Do you provide OT for children and adolescents?
- No, we do not have a paediatric Occupational Therapy service.
- We occasionally support children over the age of eight with home modifications.
- We might be the right fit for an older adolescent person who needs a housing assessment.
Are Adapt OT an NDIS registered service?
- Yes, Adapt OT is NDIS registered and can accept ‘Agency Managed’ clients.
- Under the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, registered providers must meet the NDIS Practice Standards. Both registered and unregistered providers must adhere to the NDIS Code of Conduct.
How do I refer to Adapt OT?
- Email admin@adaptot.com.au or call our Clinical Director, Peta McKenna on 0433 195 408
- Or send a message via our Contacts page.
- We have an online referral form which can be downloaded from the ‘referral’ or ‘contact us’ tabs of this website. so please email or message and we’ll let you know what details we need to process a referral. A phone call is also useful so that
What if I don’t feel my OT is a good fit with what I need?
We try hard to match our clients with the Occupational Therapist that we think will be the most suitable. Being such a broad profession, our OTs have different areas of expertise and we want to make sure that clients are getting the best possible service. If a client requests a change of therapist we do our best to accommodate that, otherwise we will make suggestions for another OT service in the Geelong region.
How experienced are your Occupational Therapists?
- Have a look at the bio page to see all of our OTs and the breadth of their experience. We won’t accept a referral if we aren’t confident that we can provide a good match for the client’s needs.
- We currently do not hire graduate Occupational Therapists.
- If you’re a new graduate OT looking for work we would recommend you make sure your first workplace provides you with excellent early career supervision, lots of joint sessions and modelling from a more experienced therapists, a broad range of clinical experiences and lots of support for professional development in your area of interest. We do all those things too, but have balanced up the needs of our clients and staff and decided that two years experience is the entry point for our staff
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