How we help OTs, speech pathologists and physios

Reviewed by Callum Trevorrow. Last checked 29 October 2026 against official sources.

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We’re an allied health recruitment agency, and we’re free to clinicians. We mainly help occupational therapists, speech pathologists and physiotherapists from overseas into roles with employers across Australia, and help clinicians already working in Australia find their next role.

This is general information, and nothing here promises a job, a visa, registration or a timeline.

How it works

1. Check your pathway. The pathway check asks your profession, whether you’re overseas or already working in Australia, and your experience. If you’re overseas, it also asks where you trained, a few questions about your route, when you’d like to move, how you expect to work here and where. At the end you add your contact details and agree to our privacy policy; the check then shows your likely registration or assessment route and saves your answers.
2. We look at your answers and email you. We read your route, your timing and what you want, then email you about the next step. If your route takes more steps than the ones we’re starting with, we tell you that plainly, keep your details and get in touch when we run sessions for it.
3. A call with Callum, or an info session. Depending on your route and timing, that’s a call with Callum or a free online info session for your profession. Either way, it’s an honest talk about your options, downsides included.
4. Introductions to employers that fit. When there’s a role that suits you, we introduce you to that employer, and only with your written permission for that specific employer and role. If you’re overseas and chose to in the check, we may first describe you to employers without your name or contact details.

After you start, we stay in touch. You can withdraw consent for future introductions at any time.

Already working in Australia? The check asks different questions (what would make your next role better, where, and how soon) and leads to a confidential chat with Callum instead. We never pass your name or details to an employer without your written permission for that specific employer and role. The careers guides cover the local side.

What we do and don’t do

We do:

• Recruit for permanent and fixed-term contract roles, including parental leave cover. In a contract role you work for the employer, not for us.
• Explain the registration and assessment routes for your profession, from official sources, and the order of registration, job and visa.
• Work alongside registered migration agents, so your visa advice comes from someone licensed to give it.

We don’t:

• Give visa advice. If you want it, we give you a registered migration agent’s details and you contact them yourself. The rules are on Home Affairs.
• Charge clinicians. Employers pay our fee.
• Supply locums.
• Promise roles, visas, registration or timelines. Employers, the boards, Speech Pathology Australia, the Physiotherapy Council and Home Affairs make those decisions.

Queensland’s Code of Conduct for private employment agents requires us to give you the Queensland Government’s information statement for work seekers before we provide any service. Our information statement page explains it.

Who assesses you

Fees and sources are in each guide: Ahpra registration for overseas OTs, SPA Certified Practising for speech pathologists and Express FLYR, FLYR or APEP for physios. Or start from your profession: occupational therapy, speech pathology or physiotherapy.

Who you’ll be talking to

“I’m a physio with experience across public, private and community settings, across the lifespan. I’ve led a hospital, and I now lead a multi-site allied health company that employs overseas staff.” That’s Callum, who started Access to Practice. More on the About page.

Your next step

Start with the pathway check. For OTs, the key question is whether your university program and graduation year are recognised by the Board; for speech pathologists, whether you hold full certification with your association and enough recent practice hours; for physios, which country you qualified in, which sets your Council route, and whether you’ve held unrestricted registration there in the past 5 years. The check asks the OT and speech questions directly and asks physios their country, so physios should check their registration history against the Council’s criteria too. It then points you to your next step. If you’re already working in Australia, it leads to a confidential chat instead.