Occupational Therapy (pre-registration) (Taught)

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Course summary

• Address the complex occupational challenges people experience every day.

• Think critically to develop future services.

• Complete four placements – three part-time and one full-time.

• Collaborate with students across other health programmes.

The course combines an integrated educational approach in both academic and practice environments. You’ll build your competence in both theoretical and practical aspects of practice. You’ll also prepare for the changing face of health and social care, to help you meet the needs of people across communities.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

On this course you'll benefit from an eclectic approach to teaching. With a combination of active, problem-based and enquiry-based learning, we’ll simulate authentic, real-life scenarios across the modules you study. There are no exams within this course. Instead we focus on your personal development through reflective practice, skills and employability.

You learn through

• practice-based learning in a variety of health and social care settings

• group work

• lectures and seminars

• simulated and practical workshops

• academic study and coursework

• conducting research through a planned dissertation

• action learning sets

Work placements

You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.

These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.

We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) which governs the occupational therapy profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as an occupational therapist.

Future careers

This course allows you to apply for registration with the UK Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) – and to find careers as an occupational therapist in a wide range of health, social care, voluntary and independent sector environments. Graduates have secured positions across the UK and international locations.

Previous graduates for this course have gone on to work for

• the NHS

• the Education Authority

• charities

• the independent private sector

• the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)

Where will I study?

You study at Collegiate Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.