Occupational Therapy workforce development

1. Sensory Modulation

Supports OTs to implement sensory modulation approaches across the lifespan in mental health settings, covering sensory processing assessment, strategy development, and environmental considerations for individuals from infancy through to older adults with dementia.

Resources include downloadable handouts and infographics, standardised assessments, and textbooks and manuals covering sensory modulation theory, group programs, and self-regulation curricula.

2. OT Professional Supervision

Focused on helping OTs access, structure, and improve the quality of professional supervision within Victorian public mental health services. 

Resources include a training summary document covering online, face-to-face, and e-learning options, a clinical supervisor database, key supervision frameworks, and books and journal articles on supervision practice.

3. OT Models and Assessments

Provides guidance on the theoretical frameworks and standardised assessments most commonly used by OTs across Victorian public mental health services, supporting client-centred, occupation-based practice.

Resources include model overviews, webinars, textbooks, and education day materials for CanMOP, MOHO, OTIPM, and the Kawa Model, alongside detailed assessment descriptions, training requirements, tip sheets, and score forms for tools such as the AMPS, ESI, COPM, Sensory Profile, and MOHO suite.

4. OT Leadership

Focused on building OT leadership capacity, strengthening workforce visibility, and guiding the strategic direction of the Victorian public mental health OT network.

Resources include a statewide workforce scoping report and infographic, two iterations of the Victorian Public Mental Health OT Leadership Network Strategic Plan, guidelines and templates for establishing sustainable statewide Communities of Practice, and a webinar series on research and embedding evidence in mental health OT practice.

5. Occupational Formulation & Goals

Supports OTs to develop structured occupational formulations and meaningful, measurable occupation-based goals, primarily drawing on the MOHO framework to strengthen clinical reasoning and documentation.

Resources include a practical textbook, peer-reviewed journal articles, animated video tutorials, an online worked example, and access to a statewide Community of Practice connecting Occupational Formulation Implementation Leads across Victorian Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Services.

6. OT Groups

Supports OTs to plan, facilitate, and evaluate therapeutic group programs across mental health settings, with a focus on occupation-based group intervention and evidence-informed facilitation.

Resources include statewide group module templates and worked examples, a group evaluation tool, group facilitation competency frameworks, textbooks and journal articles on group dynamics and therapeutic group work, and a range of established OT group programs targeting sensory regulation, activity engagement, recovery, and social cognition.

OT resources page

Head over to the resources page to find the available OT resources organised based on the six workforce development priorities.