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MSc - Master of Science
Teesside University Middlesbrough
Full Time
Jan 2028
2 Year
Health facilities at Teesside University Check out Teesside University’s facilities for the School of Health and Life Sciences. Fully prepare yourself for the role, build on your academic skills and develop clinical competence to practice as a newly graduated occupational therapist. Focus on professional values, understand the meaning and importance of occupation in our lives, and appreciate the power of occupation to transform lives. Develop your capabilities in key skills such as problem solving, professional reasoning, research, critical thinking and leadership. Explore the profession across a broad range of practice, experiencing a variety of clinical placements. This approach allows you to combine academic theory with practical learning and gain insight into the range of employment opportunities available when you complete the course and are registered. In year one, you complete taught modules and clinical placement in two settings, helping you gain foundational knowledge and understanding of the profession. Explore the world as a place of occupational opportunity and people as occupational beings and study the history and philosophy of the profession, the origins of occupational science and the theories that underpin it. Gain an understanding of the relationship between occupation, health and wellbeing. The nature of occupational performance, participation and analysis is central to your learning. Following practice placement, you learn about the impact that occupational disruption can have, and the ways it can be prevented or minimised. Your learning is supported by input from practice colleagues and service users. In year two, you join colleagues from other allied health professions and complete modules that help you understand the professional constructs around the scope and viability of occupational therapy. Develop professional and leadership skills and learn about service improvement to equip you for an ever-changing workplace. Also develop ideas for a major project, gaining academic expertise in your area of research. Your project continues throughout the second year and is submitted in January. In this year of study, you complete your final practice placement, designed to consolidate the core values, beliefs, knowledge and skills proportionate to an entry level occupational therapist. Study this course and you may be eligible for a £5,000 maintenance grant each year from the NHS Business Service Authority. Find out more. Supporting information for applicants Student Reference Policy
You critically evaluate the role of occupational performance issues in development and functioning and debate the role of occupation in countering deprivation and dysfunction for the individual and occupational disruption.
You gather and evaluate information regarding the individual's occupational performance and the impact of the environment on function. In addition, you explore the role of the occupational therapist as an enabler in terms of the individual and team contribution to the client's recovery through focus on community practice.
Using occupation as the basis for learning, you will consider the implementation of theory in common areas of occupational therapy practice. You integrate and synthesise theories of basic science with theories of occupation and consider their combined impact on occupational performance. Learn about theoretical structures and models which organise practice and critique the models and their theoretical underpinnings.
Learn the necessary knowledge and skills to design and manage both empirical and review-based research projects relevant to occupational therapy. You focus on key aspects of the design of qualitative and quantitative studies, including practical data collection, management, and analysis, as well as systematic reviews of literature and documentary analysis. You identify key aspects regarding scientific and ethical credibility of key research paradigms, with an emphasis on qualitative methodologies of occupational science.
By establishing a greater understanding of the complexity of occupational therapy intervention by focusing on an individual's ability to engage in occupation you gain an understanding of that experience allows them to develop a meaningful transformation in life. You will also understand how the tacit use of occupation can be used to create change in experience and outcomes in the life of an individual.
You will undertake a piece of research and produce a research paper and defend your area of interest through an oral defence of a poster. Demonstrate advanced capabilities in retrieving, critically appraising and developing knowledge and understanding in a topic related to occupational therapy. Develop your skills in consideration of ethical issues and facilitate the demonstration of advanced skills in the presentation of health care research.
You engage in the occupational therapy process in a practice setting where you will appreciate the philosophy of occupational therapy and identify how theory enhances practice. Experience four placements in a variety of practice settings to develop a rounded profile of experience, in areas including dementia services, forensic services, community paediatric teams and stroke rehabilitation.
You will discuss occupational therapy practice and the current issues arising from it that will affect your transition from student to professional practitioner. Debate professional and ethical issues in relation to best practice, drawing on your professional practice experience, and develop your lifelong learning to self-reflect on your occupational practice.
Cost of living Fee - You need to provide at least £1,171 per month, up to a maximum of 9 months (£10,539)
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