Hi group and Ron! Wanted to let you know that I too am happy about the list continuing and enjoying the recent messages, both amount and content - been starting replies, but found with the speed of life happening and messages arriving that what I wanted to say was already said before I could get around to finish:-)
And - it seems I have new job! Been trying for some time to sell myself to places that hadn't considered it was an OT they needed. (One of the reasons being I prefer to work evenings). And so today I went to an interview and just now got called back that they want me!! It's a department of a nursing home who has been given extra resources because they have four residents with severe brain injury, whom are also much younger than the other residents. They are in the process of implementing the ABC-concept and when I first called I learned they could use some help with getting it to the evening teams especially - so that was my buzz-word for applying. I will be an equal part of the evening care team and thus caring for all residents - which I'm happy and confident with - but will be employed and paid as an OT. I actually see this as a huge victory. I just worked 2 years also in an institutional setting in the care team - but that was in a special area - frontal lobe dementia care - where it said in the job advertisements already that they were also looking for OTs to apply. With my preference for evening jobs - and also for working in care/support and adding my OT skill to that - I've had very few positions to choose from (unless I'd accept minimal wages, that is). So finding I could dig up my own - and hopefully prepare the way for others to follow - just made my day. Feel free to join in on my celebration if you in any way resonate. Oh yeah - I'm curious if there are more of you out there working more or less as part of care teams? I imagine psychiatry, rehabilitation centers, dementia care - but hoping to hear of more! Warmly susanne, denmark, OT - and also the girlfriend of a great guy with quadriplegia -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
