Handbook

This subject is the final workplace learning subject students are required to complete as part of the occupational therapy course. This subject builds on the two workplace learning subjects students have successfully completed in third year and the one workplace learning subject students have completed in fourth year. In OCC421 students will be expected to achieve their practical entry-level occupational therapy practice competencies and be pro-active in implementing strategies to ensure these competencies are achieved. Students will be required to be independent in their ability to practice reflectively, critically evaluate their practice, and critically reflect on their learning during the subject. Students will demonstrate independence in their professional reasoning, and will manage a small case load independently, consolidating their assessment, intervention, and evaluation skills. Students will be required to pass the workplace learning placement and related assessment items to pass this subject. In this subject, students complete one supervised occupational therapy workplace learning experience. The workplace learning experience will last for eight weeks (which is approximately 270 hours on placement). While on placement students will usually work full-time and work a nine-day fortnight such that students will usually have 36 days of placement in an eight-week period. To achieve a nine-day fortnight, students will usually have one day off every two weeks; however, public holidays during placement will count as a day off and replace the one-day off every two weeks. Hence on an eight-week placement students will usually have four days off (including public holidays).