After leaving school post GCSE’s and A Levels, I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I starting working for my local council in the school admissions department, and in training happened to meet an occupational therapist (OT) and decided it sounded like a career path I wanted to pursue. The next year I started university to study Occupational Therapy!

I liked the amount of transferrable skills I could bring to being an OT and the variation of work areas I could be involved in, e.g. adults, children, mental health, acute trusts, community, and learning disabilities. I felt being an OT would give me lots of options in my career for learning and development.

I qualified from the University of Liverpool in July 2013 and began working in Aintree Hospital in the December where I rotated as a Band 5. I got my Band 6 role in May 2017 and continued to rotate around the Trust.

In June 2020, I accepted my first Band 7 role in the general medicine and surgery team, where I predominantly worked on the diabetic wards and covered the VIC (ventilation inpatient centre).

I joined Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in May 2024 as a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist and haven’t looked back!

There’s lots of opportunity for clinical development, I work with a great team of Occupational Therapists, and everyone has been so welcoming and helpful.

I really enjoy working with patients and seeing them achieve what they thought at one point to be impossible. The smile they have when they achieve their goals makes my job so worthwhile.

To anyone wanting to try a new career path but feels apprehensive about it, go for it! I embraced the uncertain and ending up finding a job I love!

After leaving school post GCSE’s and A Levels, I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I starting working for my local council in the school admissions department, and in training happened to meet an occupational therapist (OT) and decided it sounded like a career path I wanted to pursue. The next year I started university to study Occupational Therapy!

I liked the amount of transferrable skills I could bring to being an OT and the variation of work areas I could be involved in, e.g. adults, children, mental health, acute trusts, community, and learning disabilities. I felt being an OT would give me lots of options in my career for learning and development.

I qualified from the University of Liverpool in July 2013 and began working in Aintree Hospital in the December where I rotated as a Band 5. I got my Band 6 role in May 2017 and continued to rotate around the Trust.

In June 2020, I accepted my first Band 7 role in the general medicine and surgery team, where I predominantly worked on the diabetic wards and covered the VIC (ventilation inpatient centre).

I joined Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in May 2024 as a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist and haven’t looked back!

There’s lots of opportunity for clinical development, I work with a great team of Occupational Therapists, and everyone has been so welcoming and helpful.

I really enjoy working with patients and seeing them achieve what they thought at one point to be impossible. The smile they have when they achieve their goals makes my job so worthwhile.

To anyone wanting to try a new career path but feels apprehensive about it, go for it! I embraced the uncertain and ending up finding a job I love!