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Course Overview

  • Reflect on your current learning needs and design a bespoke learning contract to help prepare you for current practice 
  • Explore the theoretical underpinnings of the profession, models, approaches and core skills 
  • Increase your confidence levels to meet the current requirements of an occupational therapist 
  • Study flexibly via distance learning, enabling you to study from home.

If you are an occupational therapist wishing to return to practice after a career break, you’ll need to make sure you’re competent to do so, and be able to meet the return to practice requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

This course is designed to be studied alongside a placement, and provides a structured way to meet the requirements of the HCPC, which includes supervised practice and formal study.

This course will allow you to reflect on your current learning needs and enable you to design a bespoke learning contract that helps you prepare for current practice. With the support of your personal tutor you will study a wide range of topics so we can be sure you’re up to date with contemporary Occupational Therapy practice, confident with the current issues that apply to your area of practice, as well as developing your knowledge of wider health and social care policies.

Entry Requirement 

  • You will need to be a qualified occupational therapist who has previously been registered with the HCPC before you can start this course and will need to provide us with your HCPC number/copy of your previous registration.
  • You will need to organise and have confirmation of a placement, a minimum of 30 days with an HCPC registered occupational therapist. Your placement will need to be preferably at least 3 days a week (a minimum of 2 days a week in exceptional circumstances) and be in confirmed and in place to start on or before the beginning of the module, we will need to see evidence of this from your placement provider e.g. an email or letter confirming everything is in place.
  • You will need to acquire any appropriate DBS/other clearances required by your placement setting, as arranged with your placement setting and have this in place as part of the confirmation of your placement.
  • You will also need two references which reflect the values of the NHS constitution.
  • You will need to submit  A short reflective essay (800 words) evaluating why you wish to return to practice and how our module will assist you in this aim (correctly referenced using the Harvard system)

Fees

Type Full-time Part-time
UK

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£700

International/EU

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N/A


This information was accurate on : 24/04/2021
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