This year 2 15 credit module will introduce you to leadership theory and skills for use in occupational therapy practice. You will learn about service improvement and how services are delivered. You will have the opportunity to apply learning about quality assurance, entrepreneurship, change management and business planning and to design a proposal that enhances an occupational therapy service and to develop leadership skills to promote the required service changes.
This module will also provide you with an opportunity to integrate prior learning from a previous degree or prior work experience through engaging in a practice placement. This is a full-time placement of six-weeks duration undertaken in a non-traditional environment. Within Occupational Therapy this is known as a contemporary placement. This practice placement (PP3), could take place in for example, a third sector charity, public sector employer such as the Fire and Rescue Service or with a private employer situated within occupational health services. This is an opportunity for you to use your knowledge and skills in an environment that does not have an established occupational therapy service but there is a potential role for occupational therapy. This placement will provide you with the opportunity to develop identity, self confidence and strengthen your emerging occupational therapy professional identify, to raise and promote the profile of the profession and become politically and socially aware. You will engage in preparatory, clinical skills teaching sessions prior to commencing the practice placement.
This module will incorporate a mixed style of learning and teaching strategies including keynote lectures, tutor facilitated seminars, tutorials, and opportunities for developing skills through experiential learning prior to and during practice placements. You are also expected to engage in self-directed learning.
This module is assessed by means of two components:-
1. Completion of a defended poster presentation, proposing leadership of a service development project based on an authentic practice scenario identified by the student
2. An assessed six week practice placement