BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy

This module helps you prepare to be ready for commencing your role as occupational therapist professional learners in real-life service contexts, helping individuals. Also you'll have the opportunity to explore the principles of, and develop skills in:

• communication
• behaviour
• ethics and reflective practice.

You'll get to to understand the foundations of the occupational therapy process for practice, and its alignment with supporting people as occupational beings.

This module will run at the same time as you're participating in a part time practice placement learning experience.

You'll explore the research evidence that underpinns the centrality of the relationship between a person and their occupations and environments in support of meaningful occupation. Founded on pre-existing graduate research knowledge, you'll identify quality information, and be guided to demonstrate critical consideration of different forms of research, and you'll explore the ethical principles underlying evidence-based occupational therapy practice.

This module will run at the same time as you're participating in a part time practice placement learning experience.

This format provides you with opportunities for practical application of your learning that you've gained from the start of your course. You'll explore relationships between body structures and their functions and how these impact on humans’ ability to do the things they want and need to do, with or without assistive technology. You'll be introduced to a range of theoretical perspectives to support your ability to engage with graduate level analysis of factors that impact on human function, and to develop your skills of clinical decision making.

You'll develop a critical understanding of your professional identity, helping you to progress a personalised way of being and relating in the health and social care environment. You'll learn about the delivery of effective health care, aligned with our governing bodies’ standards of practice, within a framework of client centeredness and teamwork.

Through evaluation and reflective opportunities, you'll take a deep exploration of the concepts of professional domains of concerns - more specifically:

• codes of practice
• standards of conduct
• ethics
• allyship
• equality
• diversity and inclusion.

You'll investigate the clinical reasoning process required to practice with sound judgement, honesty, openness and integrity, taking an academic critical approach.

You'll explore medical conditions and impairments impacting body structures and functions, and the importance of core occupational therapy skills in adapting activity in accordance with person/environment/occupation factors. You'll use a problem based learning approach, through teamwork and collaborative working you'll identify and share knowledge about health and social needs, and apply shared learning to case based scenarios and clinical triggers.

You'll gain in-depth understanding of occupational therapy-specific theories and models, and you'll develop skills in using them to guide the implementation of a theoretically founded, professionally-reasoned occupational therapy process.

On this module you'll all discuss the centrality of cultural humility, diversity and planetary health to the delivery of occupational therapy services.

Through analysis of occupational science concepts, this module will help you develop an understanding of how people engage in daily activities and the impact of these activities on their health and well-being. TYou'll focus on the social and cultural influences on occupation, using intersectionality to understand the challenges faced by individuals, connecting therapeutic occupation to improving health at individual, community, and global levels, and questioning assumptions about health and environment.

This 7 week, part-time practice placement module takes place in the latter half of the semester, and is designed to run simultaneously with two taught modules and, where feasible, using a 2:1 supervision model. This format enables you to have opportunities for practical application of your learning from the start of your programme, and you'll develop the resilience necessary for commencing a professional role.

This practice placement module provides you with an opportunity to begin recognising key occupational therapy concepts, and to proactively develop and apply professional values, skills and knowledge in a professional practice context.

Developing your skills in observation, reflection, evidence-based practice and engagement in occupational therapy practice, and demonstrating professional behaviour through interaction and professional communication with team members and contribute to occupational therapy practice with service users.

This practice placement module provides you with an opportunity to further develop your occupational therapy professional identity, through increased autonomy within a professional practice setting that is likely to differ from your first professional practice experience.

By this stage, you've had extended opportunities to develop your learning related to all of the threshold concepts of the occupational therapy programme. This practice placement module is your opportunity to build on your previous placement experience, further applying your increasing skills and knowledge base, while continuing to integrate your learning across all modules you have completed so far.

This placement will prepare and get you ready for practice across a wide range of contemporary, non-traditional settings.

During this 9 week, part-time practice placement module, you'll further develop your knowledge, skills, and confidence to effectively apply occupational therapy principles and practice within a non-traditional setting, fostering creativity, adaptability, and a broader understanding of the role of occupational therapy in diverse contexts.

You'll be supported through your transition from guided to self-directed practice, self-evaluation and identification of your own development goals with an emphasis on inter professional working.

You'll be prepared for the transition into qualified occupational therapy roles, by providing opportunities for you to consolidate and apply all of your occupational therapy learning, experience, skills and understanding to date.

This 12 week, full-time practice placement module is designed to support your final university-based Capstone module, which requires you to reflect on your achievements and learning from each stage of your occupational therapy course, in the process of solidifying you professional identity.

You'll be supported to build on your previous practice placement experience and you'll take a greater autonomy over the implementation of occupational therapy practice appropriate to the clinical setting.