The Occupational Therapy Hub

What The Occupational Therapy Hub is

The Occupational Therapy Hub is an online professional community and continuing education platform for occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants and OT students. It pairs self-paced CPD courses with peer discussion groups, therapy articles, videos, webinars and a research portal, all under one membership. The home page calls it "The platform and app run by practising Occupational Therapists" and gives the scale as "29,000+ Members, in 195 countries", established 2017. The footer names the operating company as The OT Hub Ltd.

For a learner, the Hub is closer to a membership library than to a course marketplace. Most of its courses sit inside the paid OT+ membership, a few extended courses are sold one at a time, and the community features around them are open to free members. The company describes itself with the line "Your global occupational therapy community", and the product is built around that idea of shared learning across countries rather than around one national registration board.

Memberships

The home page sets out three membership boxes. The Free Membership gives "Lifetime access to key Hub tools and resources": a professional profile, OT Circles, the free sections of Therapy Articles, Therapy Videos, the Podcast Portal, the Service Directory, The OT Journal Club, and two introductory sections, What is OT? and A Career in OT.

OT+ Membership adds "Exclusive tools and resources, via annual or quarterly plans." On top of everything in the free tier, it opens the full Therapy Articles library, OT CPD Courses, OT Updates, OT Downloads, OT Webinars, Research Portal 3.0, OT Interventions, Case Studies, Advancing OT and a Priority Response OT Circle.

OT+ Corporate is the third box, offered to organizations or teams that want to give staff the same OT+ benefits. Its feature list matches individual OT+, and the button reads "Learn more / Enquire" rather than a checkout. The pages shown give no price for individual OT+ or the corporate plan, so a buyer reaches pricing through the upgrade and enquiry links.

OT CPD Courses

The courses page frames the catalog as a way to "learn from clinicians globally", with testing and reflection to consolidate knowledge and a certificate and badge to evidence it. The FAQ lists five aims: maintaining an existing skillset, adding knowledge and new skills, meeting continuing professional development requirements, evidencing that learning needs are met, and turning new knowledge into practice with patients and clients.

Each course is self-paced and online, broken into learning sections and sub-sections made of written prose, graphics and videos. A test section follows, with single and multiple-choice questions, and the learner must score 80% or more to pass. A final self-reflection section asks what the learner has taken from the course and how they will apply it in work or study. Progress saves after each section, so a course can be paused and resumed, and the learner needs to be logged into a Hub account to start and save progress.

The FAQ says most courses can be completed in 1-2 hours, within a single sitting, and that longer courses say so in their description. All courses are written and edited by clinicians.

Topics range across assessment and intervention methods, core skills such as moving and handling and communication, condition-specific learning (depression, stroke, MS and ADHD are named), specialist areas such as trauma-informed therapy, sleep management and positive psychology, advanced therapeutic techniques and new research. The current list on the courses page reads:

• Mastering Executive Function: A Comprehensive Guide, sold for £210.00
• Discover Sensory Processing and Integration
• Moving and Handling: A Dignified Approach
• Game On! Overcoming Sports Injuries
• Supporting Communication: The SLT-OT Synergy
• Improve Client Outcomes with Positive Psychology
• ADHD and Occupational Therapy
• Sleep: An Occupational Therapy Domain
• OT as a Helping Hand with Multiple Sclerosis
• Therapeutic Benefits of Gardening for Depression
• Mental Health and Trauma
• Fundamentals of Posture, Pressure and Ergonomics

Every course after the first carries a "2 Plans Available" label. The page filters the list into "Included with OT+" and "Individual Purchase". It explains that "Upgraded OT+ Members can participate in the majority of our OT CPD Courses, at no additional cost", while extended courses in the Individual Purchase category "are open for anyone to enrol in, on completion of secure payment." A news post on the home page describes Moving and Handling: A Dignified Approach as "A Hub Favourite", a short course on the theory behind moving and handling with an emphasis on dignity and safety, free with OT+ Membership and finished with a test, a self-reflection, a CPD certificate and a Hub badge.

Certificates and CPD recognition

On completion the learner receives "A CPD certificate, available to download in PDF format". The FAQ says the certificate recognizes effort and achievement on an individual course and "can contribute towards maintaining your professional registration." A Hub CPD Participant badge is also added to the learner's member profile, which the site says "shows clinicians and the wider public that you are developing yourself professionally". The badge feeds the Hub's CPD Rewards program, which is optional.

The courses do not carry points. The FAQ is direct about it: "At present, they are not assigned a specific number of CPD/CEU points. This is because the allocation and accreditation processes vary from country-to-country - and our courses are available globally." It adds that "Any accreditation updates will be posted here." A therapist whose regulator wants allocated hours will log the certificate and the 1-2 hour duration as their own CPD evidence.

The community around the courses

OT Circles are the Hub's professional networks. The home page lists Accessibility & Adaptation (public, 211 members), Neurodivergent OTs (public, 390 members), The OT Journal Club (public, 644 members), Independent Practitioners (private, 355 members, joined by request), OT Books: Buy & Sell (public, 174 members) and Mental Health (public, 767 members). Recent posts show how they get used: a therapist moving into neuro-inclusive design looking for a buddy to share CPD with, and a call for a new volunteer administrator for the Independent Practitioners circle.

The OT Journal Club is free to join. Members read an article and a host's critique, add their thoughts, then "save or print for your CPD", which turns a discussion into recordable learning. Therapy Videos include a documentary about art and mental health directed by an arts-based occupational therapist. Therapy Articles are split between free reading and OT+ categories such as OT Interventions and Advancing OT, and recent titles cover sensory support, occupational identity and children's behavior. The OT+ Research Portal recently carried a framework for using artificial intelligence in practice, and OT Updates summarized a new tool for detecting parental burnout.

Around this sit a Member Directory and newsletter, a Service Directory, Hub Jobs, a Hub Store, CPD Resources and the PromOTe Partnerships program. The Hub runs on the web and through The OT Hub app. Questions go through the Contact us page, and OT+ members get the Priority Response circle.

Creating courses with the Hub

The Hub is not a self-serve course builder, but it does take outside contributors. The courses page says the team works "both as a team and with partners in the field" to develop new courses, notes "New course creation in progress", and invites any therapist "Interested in sharing content or hosting a course?" to contact the Hub team.

What members say

A testimonial on the home page from Courtney Crabill OTR/L, CBIS, an occupational therapist and founder of OT Queue, reads: "I truly appreciate the time and care you put into bringing OTs from around the world together." The writer adds that the Hub makes resources accessible to clinicians everywhere and calls it "an incredible asset". The site also notes that its information is shared by the global community and that platform and app content does not constitute medical advice.

Who it suits

The Hub suits occupational therapists who want regular, short CPD alongside a peer network, especially those whose country has no single CPD point system the course would need to match. OT assistants and students get a free entry point through the profile, circles, Journal Club and career sections before deciding on OT+. Independent practitioners get a private circle of peers. Teams and employers can take the OT+ Corporate route. A therapist who needs courses pre-approved for a set number of CEU hours by a specific board should note the FAQ's position on points before buying the £210.00 executive function course or an OT+ plan.