What kind of job can I get when I graduate?

Career opportunities

A degree in occupational therapy provides a breadth of employment opportunities; working with individuals, small groups, organisations or communities. Occupational therapists work in many settings including hospitals, rehabilitation centres, private practice, community health centres, early intervention centres, social services, schools, government agencies, industrial and commercial organisations, mental health services, homes, and supported housing.

Speciality areas include early intervention, education, occupational health and safety, case management, mental health, disability, vocational employment rehabilitation, assistive technology, equipment services, acute care and many others. Occupational therapists may work individually or as part of a multidisciplinary health care team. Job prospects for new graduates are excellent.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy program at Monash University will have access to a wide range of career opportunities in health and human services and become part of an international community of occupational therapy practitioners.

Occupational therapy is a profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation.

Occupational therapists have a broad education that equips them with skills and knowledge to work collaboratively with individuals or groups of people who have an impairment of body structure or function due to a health condition, and who experience barriers to participation. Occupational therapists believe that participation can be supported or restricted by physical, social, attitudinal and legislative environments. Therefore, occupational therapy practice may be directed to changing aspects of the environment to enhance participation.

(World Federation of Occupational Therapists)