Occupational Therapy

Do you want to help people to live the lives they want and need to live? Do you want to help people deal with life challenges including ill-health,... Occupational Therapy is a vibrant and compassionate health profession, concerned with providing people with the ability to live their life as independently as possible, despite illness, disability, disease or the impact of ageing.

The possibilities for your future career are endless due to the dynamic nature of occupational therapy and the roles we play in areas such as hospitals, communities, schools, prisons, mental health settings, rehabilitation, veteran services and many more. If you have a drive to support people when they need it most, could occupational therapy be the profession for you? This module enables students to experience occupational therapy within wider contexts of inter-professional or multi-agency practice.

Students will experience collaborative working with colleagues from other disciplines. Through supervised practice, students will develop basic skills underpinning occupational therapy, relating this to campus based study. This shared and inter-professional module will introduce students to professional practice and evaluation of the inherent standards expected of them.

The characteristics and identity of health and care professionals, as evidence-informed/based practitioners, will underpin learning. This Level 4 module introduces students to the contributory sciences that underpin an understanding of human beings and their interactions with the world.