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Title
Code
Level
Credit rating
Pre-requisites
Type of module
Aims
Occupational Therapy in Teams 1
OT201
5
20
Attendance at OT108
7 weeks extensive
 To nurture confidence in the unique contribution of the
occupational therapist in the multi-professional team
 Develop the ability to participate effectively in interprofessional and multi-agency approaches to health and
social care where appropriate
Learning
outcomes/objectives
By the end of the module students will be able to:
 Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the
occupational therapist in health and social care services
 Recognise the place and contribution of occupational
therapy within the total health care package and show an
ability to apply this knowledge

 Recognize the professional scope of practice and make
referrals where appropriate demonstrating effective
communication techniques
 Demonstrate a detailed knowledge and understanding of
the roles of other professionals in a multi-professional team
 Critically evaluate the role of the occupational therapist in
comparison with the roles of other health and social care
professionals
 Show knowledge and critical understanding of how to work
with other health and social care professionals, support
staff, clients and carers in order to maximize health
outcomes
 Continue to develop understanding of the key concepts of
the disciplines that underpin the education and training of
all health care professionals
 Understand how to manage work within a collaborative
health and social care team
 Evaluate multi-professional practice.

Content
Students will be confronted with a variety of field situations which
require skilled teamwork:
An individual is referred to a cardiac rehabilitation team (working
with physiotherapists)
Team meeting at a special school, to plan the daily programme for
a child who is highly dependent in all occupations. (working with
teachers in a special school).
Theory of occupations: Effects of occupation and health,
occupations for working, maintenance and leisure; function and
meaning of occupations(purpose), models and approaches; roles
Human subsystems: Cardio-vascular system (function and
dysfunction; stress; paediatrics – child development
Environmental: stressors in the environment; work and stress;
special and mainstream schools
Clinical reasoning: Core processes of occupational therapy
(case management), theory-driven and process driven patterns of
implementing therapy, Conditional reasoning (motive, choosing
activities, habits and meaningful experiences, selection of
activities), Narrative reasoning (imaging, prospective stories,
prognosis), support clinical decisions and action with theoretical
underpinning
Therapeutic skills: Activities of daily living; work and leisure
occupations; communication skills with clients, carers and staff,
including those from other professional groups.
Research: Evidence-based practice; records, use of data, data
searching, collection, outcome measures.
Teaching
strategies
and
learning
Problem Based Learning using triggers from practice; fixed
resource sessions led by occupational therapists and other
professionals, as well as by tutors; creative and recreational skills;
personal tutorials; peer group tutorials, as students will start to
prepare the group assignment for module OT203.
Students will be prepared for the associated practice placement
module OT202 by learning about the various roles of health and
social care professionals, and will be encouraged to use a diary to
record the effectiveness of the teams on their placements.
Learning support
Atwal, A. 2001. Structure, aim and constructs of inter-professional
working. British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 8(10), 366-70
Covey S. R. 1999. The seven habits of highly effective people. London,
Simon & Schuster.
Department of Health. 1999. Working in Partnership, joint working
between health and social services. London, HMSO.
Duncan, A. S. and K.J. Moody. 2003. Integrated Care Pathways in
Mental Health Settings, and Occupational Therapy Perspective. British
Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66(10), 473-479.
Finnegan, M. 1997. Marketing Occupational therapy: can we do it?
British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 4(4), 195-9.
Kumar, S. 2000. Multidisciplinary approaches to rehabilitation. Oxford:
Butterworth Heinemann.
Loxley, A. 1997. Collaboration in health and welfare: working with
difference. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Miller, C., Freeman, M., Ross, N. 2001. Interprofessional Practice in
Health and Social Care. London, Arnold.
Onyett, S. 2003. Team working in mental health. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Ovretveit, J., Mathias, P., Thompson, T. (eds). 1997. Interprofessional
working for Health and Social Care. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press Ltd.
Wilmot, S. 1995. Professional Values and Interprofessional Dialogue.
Journal of Interprofessional Care, 9(3), 257-266.
Assessment tasks
Formative:
Self reflection of team membership
Summative
Students will interview a member of another profession, shadow
them for a day, and write up a report about the role of the
profession on the team, comparing and contrasting this with the
role of occupational therapy on the team (2,000 words)
This assignment will be marked on a percentage basis
Referral in this assessment means that the assignment will have
to be retrieved during the summer break.
Brief description of module
content
and/or
aims
(maximum 80 words)
Effective teamwork in now central to quality care. Students are
ready to deepen their insights into the role that occupational
therapy plays within health and social care teams, and to consider
multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary team
interaction models. They need to understand the values, and roles
of other members of the team, and how they relate to occupational
therapy.
Area examination board to
which module relates
BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy
Module
team/authors/
coordinator
Semester offered, where
appropriate
Site where delivered
Date of first approval
Date of last revision
Date of approval of this
version
Version number
Replacement for previous
module
Field for which module is
acceptable and status in
that field
Course(s) for which module
is acceptable and status in
course
School home
External examiner
Marion Martin, Josh Cameron
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Eastbourne
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Occupational Therapy
Mandatory module for BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy
School of Health Professions
Ruth Matheson