Occupational Therapy
Welcome to the Occupational Therapy section of the Practice-Based Learning (PBL) Support Web Site.
Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ offers 3 pre-registration occupational therapy programmes requiring practice-based learning experiences. These are:
BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy
This is a full-time 4 year programme.
Master of Occupational Therapy (pre-registration)
This is a full time 4-year programme.
MSc Occupational Therapy (pre-registration)
This is a full time 2-year programme. There is an option for learners to graduate with a PgDip Occupational Therapy and still be eligible to register with HCPC.
Our three programmes have some integration of modules studied. Regardless of route or programme, all learners complete 4 PBL modules with the same learning outcomes.
Practice-based Learning Team
Supporting the practice learning element of these programmes are the following:
Joanna Beveridge – Lecturer and Professional Practice Tutor, contact for MSc Occupational Therapy (pre-registration) route
Katrina Lansdown – Lecturer and Professional Practice Tutor, contact for Master of Occupational Therapy and BSc (Hons) routes
Monika Czudowska – Placement Administrator. Monika is responsible for the administration of all PBL modules
How to Contact Us
All enquiries should be directed in the first instance to the team email OT Placement.
This section contains our current assessment forms for each placement. Please look at the next tab for guidance documents.
All of the documents can be printed out using File/Print. In the case of Word forms, these are designed to be saved to your local file space using File/Save as and then completed on-screen before saving again. If required, they can then be printed out for signatures etc.
PBL 1 Assessment Form - editable
PBL 2 Assessment Form - editable
PBL 3 Assessment Form - editable
PBL 4 Assessment Form - editable
Guidance: Completion of assessment report forms
Midway contact – at the mid-way point of each PBL, the learner’s Personal Academic Tutor will email you using this form to check how the placement is going. Best practice is to include the learner when responding to this email. If you need support before this time or have any questions, please contact the team on OTPlacement@qmu.ac.uk.
This section contains information that is common to all our Occupational Therapy pre-registration programmes at QMU.
All of the documents can be printed out using File/Print. In the case of Word forms, these are designed to be saved to your local file space using File/Save as and then completed on-screen before saving again. If required, they can then be printed out for signatures etc.Ìý
Guidance: Student Identity and Attendance Monitoring
This explains the university process for checking identity and how to monitor attendance.ÌýÌý
Guidance: Service user feedback
- Learners are encouraged to consider the service user’s perspective on their performance as this is good professional practice.
- This will always be a voluntary process for the service user.
- Always discuss with your practice educator before approaching a service user for feedback.Ìý
- Learners may wish to use the information on Visual CARE Measure or Paediatric CARE Measure available from to help gather feedback, or the CARE Measure itself atÌý Ìý A student version of the Care Measure is also available on Turas or on Canvas for students to download.Ìý
- In some circumstances it may be more appropriate to gain feedback from carers, family members or other appropriate individuals rather than the service user, although it is recommended to seek this form the service user where possible.
Guidance: Supporting a student at risk of failing a practice placement
PBL models
Traditionally practice placements have used a traditional model of one learner to one educator.
However, there are now a wide range of placement models which have been successfully used in a wide range of settings.
Considering using a different placement model has enabled new placement experiences for learners. In 2020, Joanna and Duncan completed . Here is some information about different models (please also look at information from AHP professional bodies on the external links tab):
- Virtual and ‘blended’ placements –
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Turas has a wealth of resources on Models of PBL (log-in required)
If you would like more information about how to implement one of these models in your practice area, please contact the team to discuss how we can support this.
The weblinks below are provided as resources to support you in your practice-based learning role, either as an educator or learner:
- . Here you can find information about their role, links to key documents and resources to support you. The resources include webinars and a monthly lunchtime Placement Café to support educators.
- . Here you can find information about standards for practice. There is also a which includes specific guidance to support learners.
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- Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland) brings together NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) into a single national organisation.
- (log in required). Here you can find links to training and support for practitioners on a wide range of topics, including practice education. There is also information about mandatory training completed by learners before attending practice placements.
- . Here you can find information developed by our international Occupational Therapy community, including the . It includes many publications that may be of interest to support your work and learning both in the UK and internationally.
A number of other allied health professional bodies also have a range PBL resources which may be useful to occupational therapists. These are some examples:
These resources focus on neurodiversity:
- (external PDF)
These resources focus on supervision:
The University is strongly committed to supporting all members of its community. You can find information on our Equality and Diversity page including a link to the University's Diversity, Wellbeing and Inclusion calendar.
If you or your service users would like to support the programme team ensuring the curriculum meets the needs of our diverse communities, locally nationally and internationally please get in touch.
The university has a range of resources to support students. Information on these supports is available
The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ wellbeing toolkit has an array of resources to support students while they are on placement.
This section contains information that is common to all our Occupational Therapy pre-registration programmes at QMU.
All of the documents can be printed out using File/Print. In the case of Word forms, these are designed to be saved to your local file space using File/Save as and then completed on-screen before saving again. If required, they can then be printed out for signatures etc.
The Brenda Overton Memorial Award (doc link to nomination form)
Origins of the Award
Brenda Overton was the mother of Julie Churchill, one of our current Nursing Lecturers at QMU. Ìý
Brenda worked as an OT all her life, having left school a week before her 15th birthday with no qualifications but exited from Botley’s Park School of Occupational Therapy in 1959 with 7 distinctions in her craft work and passes in all her theory.Ìý After an initial post qualifying spell working at the Whittington Hospital in London, she moved to Kent and during 17 years at a residential school for children living with Cerebral Palsy children, became Head Occupational Therapist.ÌýÌý
Unfortunately, during this time in the mid-1970’s, Brenda was diagnosed with MS. From then on, her mobility was restricted, but that that never got in her way, and she moved roles to become Head OT at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells.ÌýÌý
In the months before she died, the most important thing for Brenda was being able to achieve her goals and maintain as much independence as she could muster – exactly the approach she had taken throughout her working life with everyone she came into contact with.Ìý The support, understanding and sheer inventiveness shown by the OTs from the local hospice where she spent the last days of her life, helped her achieve this.ÌýÌýÌý
When she died in 2019, it seemed fitting to offer an award in her memory. This is awarded at the end of each academic year.
