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MSc - Master of Science
Colchester Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
2 years
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MSc - Master of Science
Colchester Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
2 years
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MSc Occupational Therapy (pre-registration) programme helps you to develop the knowledge, skills, and attributes to enable you to work with clients of all ages who have physical, mental health, learning difficulties, or social challenges to address. If you already have a degree, and have carried out some relevant experience, then this programme could be your route into occupational therapy.
This pre-registration course is a two-year accelerated programme which enables you to take advantage of interprofessional learning (IPL), encouraging professionals to learn with and from each other – an understanding that helps to ensure you have the expertise to respond adequately and effectively to the complexity of your clients’ needs, and ensures that care is safe, seamless and of a high standard.
Central to the philosophy of our programme is the value attached to ‘occupation’ and ‘activity’ to achieving the health and wellbeing of individuals, which enhances their quality of life, thus enabling them to achieve their desired goals.
Professional accreditation
Accredited by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) for the purpose of ensuring graduates are fit for the profession.
Approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) for the purpose of providing eligibility to apply for registration with the HCPC as an occupational therapist.
Your future
Successful completion of our MSc Occupational Therapy (pre-registration) programme leads to eligibility to apply for registration as an occupational therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), which then allows you to practise as an occupational therapist in the UK.
If you are an international student interested in working outside of the UK, we would advise that you check registration procedures with the relevant professional body in that country.
If you are an international student and you have already qualified in your home country as an Occupational Therapist, you may not need to complete this course to work as an Occupational Therapist in the UK.
You should have: an honours degree, at grade 2:2 or above or international equivalent, successful performance at interview, evidence of recent academic study (By this we mean a course or module with an assessable component taken in the last 5 years). You must also have two satisfactory references (including an academic reference and a work-based reference).
Students living in
Domestic
£9,250 per year
Students from Domestic
Fees will increase for each academic year of study.
£22,400 per year
Students from EU
Fees will increase for each academic year of study.
£22,400 per year
Students from International
Fees will increase for each academic year of study.
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