I qualified as an Occupational Therapist in January 2019 and immediately started working in a general hospital where I completed 6–9-month rotations in acute medical, medicine for the elderly, admission avoidance and stroke units. Prior to qualifying I worked as a support worker within different mental health settings (CAHMs, Acute adult mental health, Mother & baby units). During the first 12 months of clinical practice, I received three greatix certificates, a greatix is a certificate of recognition where you are nominated anonymously. It's taken to panel and decided whether the individual deserves the recognition. I received one for working well in my team during hard times within 9 months of qualifying, I received another for being proactive during the hard times of first and second wave of the pandemic (working in ITU with the proning and deproning team) and I received another for my cognitive rehab clinical work and advocating for a patient who required more input for a safe discharge home instead of transferring them to 24hr care home. Furthermore, I was nominated for a staff award, it was such an honour to be the first and only newly qualified OT to ever be nominated for a staff award at that hospital and to compete against very competent and experienced clinicians. Other than cognitive rehab clinical work I have had input in covid and physical rehabilitations as well and I’m able to implement compensatory and restorative approaches in practice. I wanted to develop my career therefore transferred from practicing in general hospitals to a mental health setting (June 2022) and currently working as an OT in a clinical decision unit. I am passionate about preventive interventions in health and OT allows me to implement interventions that stray away from a biomedical model thus provide interventions in conjunction to pharmacological treatments.