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Hello! I'm doing some research for a current project and wondered if anyone would be happy to share their role as an OT who can work remotely? This meaning you're able to be in any country and any time zone whilst still carrying out your role as an OT whether clinical or non-clinical. You don't have to call yourself an OT but be using your skills and training in your day to day work. Look forward to reading any replies and connecting further! Hannah x
I would love to learn about the same. Thank you
Hi Hannah,
I am Tia and currently I work as remote OT in my country. I don't work in clinic or school or hospital. I develop a program as a support and coach parents’ with neurodiversity child with goals to help parents to be able to solve their own problems and I design home-based program done by parents and supervise by OT (me).
I am an OT based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Hi @Hannah. You've had some other responders to this on social media. With their consent, I'm sharing some of these replies... Felicity, in the Hub's Occupational Therapy Community Facebook group:
"In Australia you have to be super careful due to registration requirements. That you’re only practising in Australia and that your clinical notes are stored on cloud servers that are based in Australia due to the data/security laws in Australia. So whilst you could work across different time zones (heck there’s one part of Aus that has a half hr difference) you couldn’t work from outside Australia. Well from my understanding anyway." Sandpaper Arts, on the Hub's Facebook page:
"What a fab topic...perchance to dream...would love to hear what roaming OTs are doing."
Belinda, on the Hub's LinkedIn page: "COVID gave us the opportunity to show that we can assist patients remotely , well that has been my experience working with the visually impaired."
Carlyn, on the Hub's LinkedIn page:
"I know my registration requires that I be in the physically province where I’m registered and I can virtually see clients who are located in a few different provinces that have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding cross jurisdictional practice. I can also see clients who are in places that don’t require registration (there are some countries) but I have to share where I am registered. That’s for client care. For teaching or public speaking, I can do that in a number of places as an OT but need to check whether or not registration is required for that activity in that location. If I am seeing clients as a coach and not an OT, I have to be clear which hat I’m wearing and can do that anywhere. (I just spent a bunch of time on this with my regulatory body)."
Hi I don't have any information on this but I have been hoping to find out some information on this for sometime. If anyone has any information on this and how to progress into this type of role I would be more than greatful to find out more?
Apologies for jumping on the post!
I do paediatric OT work in many countries via online consul. Do you have a survey?
Thanks for reaching out here Hannah! We'll bring your forum to the attention of Members worldwide in the coming days.