Welcome to Brunel University

School of Health Sciences & Social Care

Occupational Therapy

To prepare you for university life, our course & life beyond!

To give you some information about:• Term dates• How the occupational therapy course equips

you for practice as an occupational therapist• The areas of clinical practice and

occupational therapy work• How to manage the course

Purpose of this afternoon

Provisional term dates 2013-14

• Fresher’s week: 16th – 20th September

• Autumn term:

23rd September – 13th December 2013

• Spring term:

6th January – 28th March 2014 includes 4 week practice placement 3rd March – 28th March

• Summer Term:

28th April – 23rd May 2014

Brunel University website:www.brunel.ac.ukAcademic Schools: School of Health Sciences and Social Care Subjects….Occupational Therapy…Prospective students http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/health/healthsub/occupationaltherapy/prospectivestudents.bspx

Keeping yourself informed and up to date

Your research active teaching team:

Book authors….

Your research active teaching team: Some of the journals and research centres

Centre for Research in Rehabilitation

Centre for Citizen Participation

Occupational therapy: helping people to live their life, their

way

Occupational therapy as a career

Occupational therapy as a career

A student journey

Terry Pratchett

How might an occupational therapist work with Terry Pratchett?

Assessment:

What difficulties he is having?

What does he think about his illness, his difficulties and his future?

What activities are important to him? E.g. not able to tie his tie, not able to type as quickly & fluently as he used to?

Therapy

develop a therapeutic relationship

problem solving with him; find ways for him to achieve what he wants to achieve

How does our course enable you to develop the skills and knowledge to work with someone such as Terry Pratchett?

Informing Sciences:

Physiology & anatomy, e g what neurological and pathological changes are occurring in the body?

Psychology: developmental psychology, psychological theories, interpersonal & intra personal communication, group dynamics.

Occupational theories: activity analysis, humans as occupational beings, occupation as an agent of change.

How does our course enable you to develop the skills and knowledge to work with someone such as Terry Pratchett?Learning to integrate and apply informing science theory

1.To develop practice skills:

2. To develop clinical reasoning and practice that is evidence based

Develop research skills to evaluate and critique evidence

Develop professional and academic skills

Exercise:

Take a sheet of paper and pencil.

In pairs, one of you is ‘A’ the other is ‘B’.

‘A’ will give verbal instructions to B to draw an object .

‘A’’s are not allowed to help to do the drawing or use the pencil themselves – you can only verbally instruct B.

How is the course organised• 3 year course (full time), 4 year course

(part-time), 2 year Pre-registration Masters course

• Health Professions Council – regulatory body

• Developmental approach to learning & professional development

• Time tabled time & self-directed study• Practice placement learning – ‘real world

learning’• Attendance

How are competencies assessed across the course?

Written assignments and Reports

Exams

Practical assessments

Placement assessment

Group presentations

Practice Placements

The bridge between campus learning and the practice of occupational therapy

Where do you go on placement?

Health service teams or departments (mental health and physical health)

Social service teams

Voluntary sector & developing areas of practice

Inner London & the greater London area

Support, survival and successEssentials prior to registering:

Health status:

Evidence of up to date immunisations: Hepatitis B, TB, Polio, Tetanus, Rubella, Chicken Pox status – green card

Medical questionnaire

Criminal Records Bureau:

Criminal convictions to be declared on UCAS application

A criminal Records Bureau (CRB) disclosure (enhanced) is a requirement - forms sent with conditional offers.

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training: http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/how-we-help/training/heartstart-uk.aspx

Support, survival and successEssentials prior to registering:

Health status:

Evidence of up to date immunisations: Hepatitis B, TB, Polio, Tetanus, Rubella, Chicken Pox status – green card

Medical questionnaire

Criminal Records Bureau:

Criminal convictions to be declared on UCAS application

A criminal Records Bureau (CRB) disclosure (enhanced) is a requirement - forms sent with conditional offers.

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training: http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/how-we-help/training/heartstart-uk.aspx

Personal tutoring system

Effective learning and advice service

Student centre

Web based learning – U-link

Disability and dyslexia service

Student Union

University clubs

Counselling service

Support, survival and success!

Money management:

Tuition fees paid by NHS London Region

If eligible can apply for maintenance award.

Part-time student funding is different

Prepare for a tight budget….....books, travel to and from placement, uniforms, immunisations..….whilst ensuring basic needs are met & keeping an occupational balance!

Support, survival and success!

Support, survival and success!Peer support

Study groups

British Association of Occupational Therapists/College of Occupational Therapistshttp://www.cot.org.uk/public/otasacareer/intro/intro.php

Student membership

Brunel BAOT student group –organised by students for students

Support, survival and success!Peer support

Study groups

British Association of Occupational Therapists/College of Occupational Therapistshttp://www.cot.org.uk/public/otasacareer/intro/intro.php

Student membership

Brunel BAOT student group –organised by students for students

Any Questions?

• Brunel University Website

• www.brunel.ac.uk

Books & Films you may want to read or see…

•The Brain by Michael O’Shea. Published by Oxford University Press

•Psychology by Gillian Butler & Freda McManus. Published by: as above

•Sociology by Steve Bruce. Published by as above

•The Study Skills Handbook by Stella Cottrell (3rd edition) published by Palgrave

•‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ by Jean-Dominique Bauby

•‘Iris’ by John Bayeley

•The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

•My Left Foot by Christy Brown

Films / Videos / DVD’s

‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’, ‘Iris’ ‘Away from her’, ‘A beautiful Mind’

‘East is East’