107
11.9 Occupational Therapist (10.44)
In our Report No. 2 the Occupational Therapist
grade was classified as one of the Group IV Grades with Student Ranks in Chapter 10. Posts in this group are usually filled either by the appointment of serving officers or by direct entrants who have undergone specialist training courses outside Hong Kong.
For a long time recruitment to the grade has been confined to candidates trained overseas and with some post- qualification experience. We were pleased to learn that in mid-1981, the first group of locally trained candidates will graduate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic Occupational Therapy (Higher Diploma) Course. It is therefore necessary to re-structure the Occupational Therapist grade in order to accommodate recruits from this source. The new structure proposed is in line with the functional rank structure of those Group II grades in Chapter 10 of Report No. 2, i.e. grades for which the minimum educational qualification for entry to the student rank is school certificate. Students who graduate from the Polytechnic will enter the grade as Occupational Therapist II.
We are informed that appropriate duties can be assigned to ranks I and II which will enable them to be functionalised.
Existing
Proposed
Occupational
25 - 37
Therapist
Occupational Therapist II
17
24
Occupational
25 37
Therapist I
Senior Occupational 38 -
43
Therapist
Senior Occupational 38 - Therapist
43
Superintendent
-
44 47
Superintendent
44
47
Occupational
Occupational
Therapist
11.10 Scientific Draughtsman (8.26)
Therapist
The existing scale for this grade as recommended in our Report No. 2 provides for a one-rank structure.
It has been suggested to us that a senior rank in this grade is needed to manage and co-ordinate the production of meteorological charts, diagrams and related publications in the Royal Observatory. It has also been proposed that a change of title from "Scientific Draughtsman" to "Draughtsman"
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