Welcome to the Team (Permanently), Kelly!

The #OTalk crew are excited to announce that our Student Digital Leader Intern, Kelly (@OTontheTracks), has agreed to become a permanent member of the team.

Kelly started her role in April 2015 and quickly became a valued member of our team, a rock we can depend on and a good friend. Kelly has shown tremendous dedication to her role, actively participating in chats and promoting #OTalk at every possible opportunity. She has made sure that all previous chats on the on the otalk.co.uk website have a transcript, and created a wonderful ‘Welcome to OT’ video. We really appreciate how motivated she is and how easy she is to get along with, and we are so happy to have her onboard.

Now Recruiting for #OTalk Student Digital Leader Intern(s)

We love the fresh perspectives and energy that students bring to the #OTalk community, and we have always had students in the team (@GillyGorry and @GeekyOT both started their #OTalk journeys as students). With this in mind, we have decided to re-open applications for the position of #OTalk Student Digital Leader Intern.

We want to recruit one or two UK/Ireland-based interns who are pre-registration students at the time of application to support the running of #OTalk for a 6-9 month period. A list of responsibilities and projects can be found below, along with an indication of the skills we are seeking. In return for your support, you will receive mentoring in digital leadership from the #OTalk team, and guidance to host/support-host a few chats throughout the internship. This experience will help develop your professional networks and will look great on a CV. You will receive a reference on completion of the internship.

Our outgoing Student Digital Leader Intern, Kelly, summed up her experience saying:

“Undertaking the Student Digital Leader Intern position with the #OTalk team created so many fantastic opportunities that I could  never have imagined I would be a part of as a student occupational therapist.

Being part of the #OTalk team has opened up a world of expertise and experience to learn from. I have developed a range of transferable skills I can take with me into my career as qualified occupational therapist and had lots of fun along the way”

#OTalk Student Digital Leader Intern – Responsibilities and Project

• OTalk Blog – Transcript posting.
  To support the team by posting transcripts for selected chats within 48 hours of a chat and in linking to the summary page
• OTalk Facebook
  Creating a Facebook event for each chat from the OTalk Facebook page
• OTalk Twitter – Promoting
  Regular tweets from OTalk and personal accounts to promote the chats.
• OTalk Twitter – Follows.
  To review follows on the OTalk Twitter account, block spam accounts and to follow back/create lists for the OTalk account.
• OTalk Twitter – Hosting.
  To host a minimum of one chat during the internship and to support an additional two chats with guest hosts (Training will be provided – more can be hosted as desired).
• OTalk Experience Summary.
  Along with the OTalk crew to write up an account of the experience of interning for publication.
• OTalk Development.
  Engagement in online team meetings to review chat effectiveness, suggest future development and feedback on the relevance of OTalk for students.

Interns ideally need to be:

• Excellent communicators
• Familiar with the use of Twitter
• Familiar with the use of Gmail, Google calendars and Google Drive
• Familiar with the use of Skype
• Familiar with WordPress blog editing dashboard
• Able to create PDFs of transcripts
• Available on Tuesday nights between 8pm – 9pm at least once a month
• Available for 30 minutes on Wednesdays or Thursdays to post chat transcript
• Able to access the Internet and have a laptop/smartphone that will enable blog editing and Twitter/Facebook access.
• Passionate about the occupational therapy profession
• Promoters of the positive application of social networking for professional development
• Responsible and professional in their use of social media (social media accounts of applicants will be reviewed as part of the application process)
• Engaging with CPD on a regular basis

(Training to use the relevant software will be provided so please still apply if you meet most of the outline above)

If you are interested in this position please send the following to otalk.occhat@gmail.com by 23:55 on the 15th May:

• A personal statement of no more than 500 words demonstrating your suitability for the internship
• A Biography of between 100-200 words (that includes your name and university, and a link to your LinkedIn profile) [Write this as if you are introducing yourself to the #OTalk Community on the blog]
• Your skype username
• The name and e-mail of a referee who can be contacted if you are invited to interview

Please direct any queries to the team using the above email address or Direct Message us on @OTalk_

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to a Skype interview by the end of May and will be in post by the beginning of June.

Please note this is a voluntary role (we are all volunteers and #OTalk is not-for-profit.