DA5027 - Practice Placement 2

What will I learn on this module?

By the end of this module, you will have further developed your Occupational Therapy knowledge and skills by completing your second Occupational Therapy practice placement. This will build on the skills and experience gained during placement 1 and in your workplace.
Through supervised practice, you will actively participate in the Occupational Therapy process, learning to apply knowledge drawn from your work in modules completed so far, as well as developing core practice skills. You will reflect on the core values important to service users and carers and consider their application to practice. You will learn about, and experience, the importance of cultural intelligence, collaborative working and utilise opportunities to develop your professional and organisational skills and consider the role of the environment in creating an enabling/ disabling experience. You will be required to provide evidence that your statutory and mandatory training is up to date prior to the start of placement. The placement will encourage reflective learning supporting development as a reflective and evidence-based practitioner. Hours completed on this module contribute to the 1000 hours of supervised practice required to be eligible to register to practice on completion of the programme. Some of the pre and post placement university learning can be verified as placement hours.

How will I learn on this module?

This module will be practice based and may use simulation or telehealth to support your learning. You will engage with an identified practice area and work in collaboration with a qualified Occupational Therapist(s) who will act as your practice educator to facilitate your learning. Alongside the identified educator(s), opportunities to learn from other team members, disciplines and related services can be negotiated throughout the placement. Your practice educator, alongside other professionals, will support you to apply knowledge and skills in the real-world practice environment. You will be encouraged to take an active role within your practice learning, negotiating and identifying learning opportunities and providing a range of evidence to achieve placement competencies. Classroom based sessions will be utilised during consolidation weeks enabling you to synthesise workbased learning , practice placement learning alongside the theoretical and practical university based sessions. Tutorials may be in the form of individual or small group tutorials, in university, in practice and make take place face to face or online .

How will I be supported academically on this module?

The module tutor, personal tutor and work based mentor will support you at key points before, during and after the placement. You will also have an identified practice educator (a qualified Occupational Therapist) who will facilitate and support your learning in practice. In addition, you will be supported to identify and access other professionals and disciplines available in the practice area.

What will I be expected to read on this module?

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

What will I be expected to achieve?

Knowledge & Understanding:
• Understand principles of occupational engagement and performance and the role/ potential role of the OT in the therapeutic process within the practice context.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
• Apply core occupational therapy and professional theories, concepts and principles to demonstrate development of professional reasoning skills throughout the therapeutic process
• Apply and appraise relevant OT techniques/core skills with supervision by meeting identified practice competencies and demonstrating safe and effective practice
• Analyse research evidence and apply to practice.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
• Demonstrate awareness of policy context, the value of collaboration, communication and team working to person centred care.

How will I be assessed?

Formative assessment:
Ongoing formative assessment of practice where strengths and areas for development are identified. This will be supported through regular supervision meetings between the student and the practice educator and will be summarised during a mid-point contact with an academic tutor.
Summative assessment
Level 5 Practice Placement Competencies (ALL MLOs)

You will be assessed by your Practice Educator on a pass/fail basis in line with specified level 5 competencies. You will receive written and verbal feedback on your strengths and areas for development from your Practice Educator

The summative assessment will promote achievement of all MLO’s

Pre-requisite(s)

None

Co-requisite(s)

None

Module abstract

This module provides further opportunity to experience and be actively involved in delivering occupation focussed activity in a real world environment. You will spend 9 weeks as part of a team within an identified area of practice, learning from and with service users, occupational therapists, health/social care professionals and wider services and team members. You will be allocated to a qualified Occupational Therapist who will guide and support your learning.

Through opportunities for supervised practice with ongoing assessment and feedback and monitored through regular supervision with your allocated practice educator, you will be supported to work towards the placement competencies relevant to your level of learning. This module will enable you to build on foundation skills developed during placement 1 and to link to theories, concepts and skills developed during university modules.

The placement process will also be supported by university sessions before, during and after your placement to help you to prepare for practice and to assist you to consolidate learning and future development needs.

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Credits 20

Level of Study Undergraduate

Mode of Study 3 years Full Time

School Communities and Education

Location Coach Lane Campus, Northumbria University

City Newcastle

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