Benefits of OT Supervision

How occupational therapy students can contribute to your team / workplace - what are the benefits of supervising students?

The Queensland Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Collaborative (QOTFC) conducted a survey of occupational therapists who reported the following organizational benefits from supervising students. Student placements were found to:
  • enable assessment of students for future recruitment potential;
  • increase departmental productivity and client service provision;
  • develop staff supervision and training skills;
  • develop staff clinical reasoning skills;
  • develop staff organization & time management skills;
  • promote exposure of the service to the community;
  • support the maintenance of supervising clinician skills;
  • promote diversity in workplace;
  • enable organisational projects to be completed, for example the development of protocols and forms;
  • enable valuable resources to be developed, for example client manuals, brochures, education programs and occupational therapy resource materials;
  • enable the implementation/commencement or continuation of quality assurance or evidence based practice research activities.

For more information please contact the clinical placement manager at your university.