RCOT calls for collaboration to help
RCOT is calling on all practitioners, service managers and
departmental leads to work creatively and collaboratively
with neighbouring universities delivering pre-registration
occupational therapy programmes to explore what you can do to
support students to access the placements.
Many practice placements were postponed or lost entirely as
services shifted focus to respond to the global pandemic, while
many students have entered the workforce on temporary schemes,
despite the potential delay that this may bring to their graduation.
RCOT has worked with education providers to explore how
the required 1,000 hours of successful practice-based learning
might reasonably be calculated within the requirements set out
by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists. While this
will help to ease the pressures, RCOT is also calling for everyone
to do what they reasonably can to ensure that we have the future
workforce available to meet the rapidly increasing demand for
occupational therapy services.
Dr Jo Watson, RCOT assistant director – education and
research, said: ‘We are calling upon colleagues to join the
collective effort to ensure that we are able to support preregistration
students to complete their programmes of study as
close to the originally intended graduation date as reasonably
possible. This will sustain the workforce supply pipeline and
bring skilled, competent graduates to the workplace to join you
in taking on the challenges and opportunities that the health
and care landscape presents to us all as we move through and
beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Glasgow students outstrip fundraising targ
patients
Glasgow Caledonian University’s Occupational Therapy Society has r
target to provide essential and luxury items for patients in hospitals a
The students have so far raised £1,085 and helped to fund items
care home. Items include snacks, toiletries, and activities including co
magazines and pens.
For more information, visit the society’s Twitter feed at: www.twitte