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1) mulling concerns on new HCPC proficiency standards. Who judges the registrants efforts? What are the guidelines to stop subjectivity? What are the safeguards? What about the medicalisation of socioeconomic & political factors? Where is employer accountability for stress?

✅ Are you an experienced occupational therapist working with older people? ✅ Do you have experience developing professional documentation and evidence-based practice? ✨ Join our Publications Group. Nominate yourself by 9am on Wednesday 26 October. loom.ly/772F5Fk

Too often people with direct experience & knowhow get left out of shaping stuff. Instead of just being involved from the start, an engagement strategy is used to seek 'their' views, but after the event. Too little, too late. Damage done, what a waste. That's about power isn't it?

NEW REPORT: The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England 2022 report has been published. #StateOfReport ➡️Take a look: bit.ly/3SlZafP

The MSc Occupational Therapy pre registration programme at Sheffield Hallam University is now recruiting with online interviews 24th,28th October and 4th, 7th November. Interested? send me a message.

Great session today hearing about AHP roles and promoting #AHPcareers with secondary school students in South Yorkshire. Led by the SY ICB Schools Engagement Team and presentations by AHP colleagues South Yorkshire AHP Council & Faculty NHS South Yorkshire South Yorkshire Careers: NHS, Health & Care

Fiona Leahy South Yorkshire AHP Council & Faculty NHS South Yorkshire South Yorkshire Careers: NHS, Health & Care Really inspirational session - so impressed with this format! Great to hear from #HelloMyNameIsJakubT and his story about becoming a Therapeutic Radiographer and his journey to becoming a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University AHP SHU

Explaining the role of OT in Children's Social Care Sarah Crawley shared a wonderful video of Ryan and his Mum talking about the difference OT makes to them 💚South Yorkshire AHP Council & Faculty South Yorkshire Careers: NHS, Health & Care Amanda Greenhalgh

Fiona Leahy South Yorkshire AHP Council & Faculty NHS South Yorkshire South Yorkshire Careers: NHS, Health & Care #HelloMyNameIsJakubT AHP SHU Sheffield Hallam University Really moving to hear about occupational therapy from Sarah Crawley and about Ryan's story. Moving to hear firsthand the impact of having OT for Ryan's mum and their whole family💚 I completely agree - what a great choice of career 🌟 #valueofOT

Today we delivered our AHP virtual discovery session! Students got to meet a Speech & Language Therapist, Therapeutic Radiographer, Occupational Therapist and Paramedic. A big thank you to our amazing ambassadors; RDaSH Speech and Language Therapy Team, #HelloMyNameIsJakubT, Sarah Crawley and Jay J Hughes

An important development and a must read! local.gov.uk/our-support/wo…

We’re going through some org changes so that we have the right roles to deliver our strategy and commitments to members. We know changes like these are difficult, we’re in conversation with and providing support for those who are directly affected. loom.ly/HFWOrj4

Proud to share that I have been shortlisted for the Housing Occupational Therapist of the year. #NHHA22 #foundationshia #doncastercouncil #OccupationalTherapy #rcot

Adapt my Home is an online self-assessment tool that anyone in the public or in Housing, including OTs, can use as an indicative assessment of DFG eligibility and signposting to local authorities. 🔗tinyurl.com/47mw29ct #DFG #OTWeek #OTWeek2022 Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Final year #AHP students can you help Elisha Heckler with her survey on pre-preceptorship? Great work on placement with Ursula MacFarlane - @ukmacfarlane.bsky.social South Yorkshire AHP Council & Faculty -can’t wait to link in with you about the results #nationalahppreceptorship Helen Marriott McMinnisR

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Interesting findings from a systematic review on Reablement by Dr Cate Bennett (Occupational Therapist). I'd love to see more research on the role of Reablement in adapting people's homes. I often think this is a missing element to making the most of the #DFG onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hs…

Nurses will be on strike again tomorrow Paramedics will be on strike for the first time on Wednesday If you support striking NHS workers please reply with a 💙. #FairPayforNursing #NHSStrikes

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has called on the government to accelerate a promised crackdown on landlords failing to fix tens of thousands of mouldy homes with a warning that unless laws are toughened many more people will die from the effects. theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

This week the UK government announced that NHS staff will receive a 5.5% pay increase. Our members working in social care also deserve fair pay.