OT6001 - Practice Placement 3

The majority of this module will be practice based and may use simulation or telehealth to support your learning. You will engage with an identified practice area and work in collaboration with a qualified Occupational Therapist(s) who will act as your practice educator to facilitate your learning. Alongside the identified educator(s), opportunities to learn from other team members, disciplines and related services can be negotiated throughout the placement. Your practice educator, alongside other professionals, will support you to apply knowledge and skills in the real-world practice environment. You will be encouraged to take an active and increasingly autonomous role within your practice learning, negotiating and identifying learning opportunities and providing a range of evidence to achieve placement competencies.

University sessions will help you to link theory to practice and consolidate learning. Tutorials may be in the form of individual or small group tutorials, in university, in practice and make take place face to face or online

The module tutor, alongside other academic staff, will support you at key points before, during and after the placement. You will also have an identified practice educator (a qualified Occupational Therapist) who will facilitate and support your learning in practice. In addition, you will be supported to identify and access other professionals and disciplines available in the particular practice area. University sessions including lectures, seminars and grooup tutorials will enable you to prepare for and reflect upon your placement experiences.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Understand principles of occupational engagement and performance and the role/ potential role of the OT in the therapeutic process within the practice context.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
2. Apply core occupational therapy and professional theories, concepts and principles to demonstrate development of professional reasoning skills throughout the therapeutic process
3. Apply and appraise relevant OT techniques/core skills with supervision by meeting identified practice competencies and demonstrating safe and effective practice
4. Analyse research evidence and apply to practice.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
5. Demonstrate awareness of policy context, the value of collaboration, communication and team working to person centred care.

Formative assessment:
Ongoing formative assessment of practice where strengths and areas for development are identified. This will be supported through regular supervision meetings between the student and the practice educator and will be summarised during a mid-point contact with an academic tutor.

Summative assessment
Level 6 Practice Placement Competencies (ALL MLOs)

You will be assessed by your Practice Educator on a pass/fail basis in line with specified level 6 competencies. You will receive written and verbal feedback on your strengths and areas for development from your Practice Educator

The summative assessment will promote achievement of all MLO’s

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This module provides further opportunity to experience and be actively involved in delivering occupation focussed activity in a real world environment. You will spend 12 weeks as part of a team within an identified area of practice, learning from and with service users, occupational therapists, health/social care professionals and wider services and team members. You will be allocated to a qualified Occupational Therapist who will guide and support your learning.

Through opportunities for supervised practice with ongoing assessment and feedback and monitored through regular supervision with your allocated practice educator, you will be supported to work towards the placement competencies relevant to your level of learning. This module will enable you to consolidate and integrate skills developed during previous placements and to link to theories, concepts and skills developed during university modules.

The placement process will also be supported by university sessions before, during and after your placement to help you to prepare for practice and to assist you to consolidate learning and future development needs.