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OT Week 2023 Resources

You can find here a range of resources to help you talk about occupations, in the context of occupational therapy, in person, in your workplace and on social media:  

  • Posters to display in your workplace. 

  • Graphics to share on social media or insert into documents. 

  • Banners to use in your email signatures. 

  • Calendar of suggested activities to do throughout November  

  • Narrative with text for social media, script, conversation prompt, stories and newsletter content 

  • Briefing, evidence and reading to help you with your occupation-centred practice  

Resources are available in English and Welsh.  

If you have questions about the resources, see our FAQs. If you can’t find the answer to your question here or need help please contact marketing@rcot.co.uk    

Digital only resources

All the campaign resources are digital and can be downloaded from this page. Over the last few years, we’ve moved the OT Week campaign online as part of our commitment to sustainability and focusing on delivering impact. By taking the campaign online, not only has it meant we’re more sustainable, but we’ve also made a bigger measurable impact. This means that there are no printed resources or merchandise.  

Download full resource packs 

You can download the full resource pack as a zip file. If this doesn’t work for you, you can also download the resources individually. 

Most resources are available in English and Welsh, where there are only English version (resources for members rather than public facing) these have been included in the Welsh download. 

Resource descriptions and individual downloads

Resource descriptions and individual downloads

Posters to display

There are two different poster designs and three versions of each one. One with a QR code that's ready to use, one that you can add your contact details to, and one that's blank to add event information to. They are available in English and in Welsh. 

Graphics for social and documents

These graphics are to share on your social media platforms.  The portrait graphics are for stories on Facebook and Instagram. The square graphics work best in posts on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X/Twitter. 

When you share the graphics on social media, add a message about occupation, why occupation is essential to living and how focusing on occupation makes a difference to the people you work with. You could also share stories of the impact you’ve made by focusing on occupations. In the narrative you will also find suggested text to use. 

When you share remember to always use #OTWeek23. 

Banners for email signatures

Add this banner to your email signatures. If you can, link the banner in your signature to the webpage rcot.co.uk/occupations. 

Calendar of suggested activities

The calendar includes daily activities to help you create a better understanding of occupations. Download the calendar and tick off the activities as you do them. There are two versions: one that’s better for printing and one that works better for sharing. At the end of November, take a photo and share on what you’ve done on social media using #OTWeek23

Narratives

The narratives help you talk consistently about occupations, in the context of occupational therapy.  

There are different versions of the narrative: 

  • text for posts on social media  
  • script to introduce occupations in 30 seconds 
  • prompts for conversations 
  • stories to bring occupations to life 
  • content for bulletins, newsletters and webpages.  

Briefing, evidence and reading

The briefing highlights how important occupation is in occupational therapy and gives guidance on how to keep a focus on occupation in your practice. The evidence summary can be used to support discussions about occupations, shaping innovative occupation-focussed service delivery or building a business case for quality improvements. Students, learners and educators might also find it useful as a summary of the current research. The reading list covers a range of e-books about occupation that are in our digital library. 

Five-minute reflection tool

This reflection tool will help you capture your thoughts and record your learnings from OT Week. You might want to reflect on the week overall, a conversation you had with a colleague, what you took away from the Breaking barriers event, and how this has prompted your learning. You can complete the tool more than once if you have lots of activities you would like to reflect on. 

Animation

Include this animation in your presentations, share it on social media and add it to your webpages.

To share, press play and then click on the 'share' icon on the top right hand side of the video, or go to our social media pages and repost the video from there.

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