Occupational Therapy Student Alliance - OTSA at SCU

09/10/2026

☕️💗 OT Week Celebration 💗🌈

Come celebrate our amazing profession with your fellow SCU Occupational Therapy students! 🫶🏼

OTSA is hosting a casual catch-up in the Quad to celebrate OT Week and we’d love to see students from ALL year levels come along! 🩵

✨ Grab a FREE coffee or drink voucher for Green Room Café from our committee members then meet your fellow OT students and connect with students across different year levels! Share knowledge, experiences, tips and all things OT 🥳

Have your say! We’d love your ideas and input for our end-of-year celebration too, if you can't make it send us a DM 🤗

Whether you’re a first-year student or nearing the finish line, come take a break, make connections and celebrate the incredible profession we’re all working towards! 🌸

Where: The Quad
When: Wednesday 28 October
Time: 10:30am (QLD time)

Bring a friend, grab a coffee and come say hi! We can’t wait to catch up with you all! ☕️💗

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02/10/2026

Check out some of our favourite OT podcasts! 🤩

From practical tips and inspiring stories to fresh ideas and professional insights, these are a few podcasts we’ve been loving lately.

What’s your favourite OT podcast? Tell us your recommendations in the comments we’d love to discover some new ones!

30/09/2026

Our OT Lab favourites ✨👐

16/09/2026

Check out some of our favourite OT Instagram pages!
Whether you’re looking for OT inspiration, helpful resources, career tips or just a little OT community 💛 these are some of the pages we love following!
What’s your favourite OT Instagram page? 👇
Tag them in the comments or share your recommendations with us!

25/08/2026

OTSA is looking for new committee members to join the team for 2027. Please email us if you are interested. Southern Cross University

28/07/2026

A little glimpse of a week in the life of a final-year OT student on placement in Work Rehabilitation with KINNECT Cairns.
Over the past 10 weeks, Natasha had the opportunity to learn, grow, and develop her clinical skills while travelling throughout Far North Queensland, including the Cairns, Atherton Tablelands, Mareeba, Mission Beach, and surrounding regions.
This placement provided valuable insight into the role of Occupational Therapy in work rehabilitation and reinforced the importance of supporting people to participate in meaningful occupations.

A typical week might include:
• Monitoring calls with workers and employers
• Developing Recover at Work Plans
• Conducting worksite assessments with workers and employers
• Completing pre-employment assessments, including audio, vision, and functional testing
• Initial meeting with worker
• Facilitating job-seeking skills sessions
• Conducting Functional Capacity Evaluations
• Completing ergonomic assessments
• Undertaking ADL and Modified Barthel Index assessments

Southern Cross University

13/07/2026

OTSA, let’s get together for a small but well-deserved break! 🤍

Make sure to register your spot — we’d love to see you there! ✨

25/06/2026

Our committee member Ruth absolutely smashing it on her WIL III Placement 👷🏼‍♀️🥽🦺💛

A belated WIL III placement post! During placement Ruth has been onsite with Altius Rehabilitation Services putting theoretical knowledge of occupational rehabilitation into practice.

04/05/2026

For $7 each ?!?! 😗
The best dedicated uni bag that fits EVERYTHING and an awesome, retractable ID card holder so that you never forget your student ID 😎
Head to the CoastRs website to get yours now!
Good luck in term 2 everyone !!! 🌟

05/04/2026

Happy Easter from OTSA 🐣

We hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend and taking time to fill their cup! Whether you’re wrapping up end of term assessments, on placement, or waiting to begin. Remember to do something meaningful for yourself… one occupation at a time 💛