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measures include work limitation and quality of life. Informal
measures include patient satisfaction. On project completion a
business plan for future funding will be submitted.
Results/Summary: OT core skills are used to enable individuals
to undertake meaningful occupation and maximise health and
wellbeing. OT functional assessments, worksite visits, advice and
education are undertaken. Provisional outcome measurements
suggest the role has prevented redeployment, assisted return
to work and improved function. Informal feedback from
colleagues, managers and employees has been positive.
Challenges have included defining the skills unique to OT and
clearly demonstrating OT’s impact.
Impact on service users: Two months into the project results
are indicating that the new role is having a positive impact on
functional ability and return to work.
Implications for Occupational Therapy: This service development
could provide evidence to support the establishment of OTs as
core members of OH teams both within and beyond the NHS.
Currently something that is not common place.
References
Department of Health (2011) Healthy staff, better care for
patients: realignment of Occupational Health Services to the
NHS in England. (Online). London: Department of Health
(Accessed on: 12.09.2015) Available from: (https://www.gov.
uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/
file/216379/dh_128814.pdf).
Health and safety Executive (2015) Occupational Therapists
(Online) (Accessed on 12.09.2015) Available from: http://www.
hse.gov.uk/sicknessabsence/occtherapists.htm.
NHS England (2014). Five Year Forward View. (Online). London:
NHS England. (Accessed on: 12.09.2015). Available from: (http://
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.
pdf).
Keywords
Occupational therapists, Practice development, New or emerging
roles, NHS
Contact E-mail Addresses
catherine.hayden@sth.nhs.uk
Author Biographies
Catherine Hayden is a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She
has worked in vocational rehabilitation since 2011 and
Occupational Health since January 2015. Prior to her current
practice development role within Occupational Health she led
a UK Cancer Research Network portfolio study identifying the
barriers of return to work for cancer survivors, a collaboration
between Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, the University of Sheffield
and Macmillan Cancer Support. Before relocating to Sheffield in
2010 she worked in various acute teaching hospitals in London
in a range of areas of physical health, specialising in oncology in
2007.
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The client-centred cha-cha: could one step forward
lead to two steps back?
George J, Bournemouth University
There is growing encouragement for Occupational Therapists
to adopt a client centred way of practice, but just how
practical is this philosophy? This poster takes a critical look
at client centredness in practice: unpicking the benefits and
implications not just at therapeutic and service levels but for
the profession as a whole. Key issues of impact for service users
include ethical paradoxes entangled within this ideology, and
a call for occupational therapists to focus on the principle that
their caseload should receive the full benefit of their expertise
(Sumsion 1999). Concluding arguments emerge that – in order
to ensure best practice – perhaps the client centred approach
should be handled with caution.
References
Sumsion, Thelma, 1999. Implementation Issues. In: Sumsion,
Thelma, 1999. Client-Centred Practice in Occupational Therapy.
London: Harcourt Brace and Company Limited. (P. 27–28)
Keywords
Occupational therapists, Practice development, Practice – present
and future, Education
Contact E-mail Addresses
josephinemarie@hotmail.co.uk
Author Biographies
Josephine is a final year Occupational Therapy Student at
Bournemouth University. She has a previous BSc. (Hons.) in
Psychology and Counselling, and background mentoring young
people in inner-city secondary schools with social, emotional and
behaviourial difficulties.
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Are you and your team really engaging in continuing
professional development (CPD)?
Hearle D 1 , Lawson S 2 , Cardiff University 1 , Cheshire West
and Chester Council 2
Professional standards of regulation developed by the Health
and Care Professions Council (HCPC, 2012) emphasize the
importance of ‘engagement’ in Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) as part of the audit process. Occupational
Therapists now need to demonstrate how CPD has impacted
on their practice and benefited service users, rather than just to
undertake and record their activities (HCPC, 2012). Previously
this concept of engagement in CPD has not been clearly defined
which has made measurement of success challenging (Lawson et
al, 2015).
The TRAMm (Tell, Record, Activity, Monitor, measure) Model
has been designed to provide a framework for facilitating
engagement in CPD and as part of the design it was necessary
to explore this concept of engagement in greater depth (Hearle
et al, 2015). A concept analysis using Walker and Avant (1995
in Walker and Avant, 2010) as a framework was undertaken.
Literature was accessed via OVID, CINAHL, ERIC, ABI INFO and
PsychINFO using search terms engagement, work/employee,
user, consumer, scholarly engagement, CPD and life-long
learning.
The results of this concept analysis will be presented as a poster
which will outline the defining attributes of CPD engagement
by providing an overview of the criteria which have been
developed. Ways in which engagement can be embraced, both
by the individual professional and managers wishing to create
conditions conducive for CPD, will be presented. Signposting
to encourage and enable further exploration of these ideas for
future development will be included.
References
Health & Care Professions Council (2012) Your guide to Our
Standards of Continuing Professional Development. London:
Health & Care Professions Council
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