MSc Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration)

University of Wolverhampton

Why choose this course?

The MSc Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration) course offers a range of modules to enhance your learning and contributes to your understanding and development as a future qualified Occupational Therapist.

What happens on the course?

The MSc Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration) course offers a range of modules to enhance your learning and contributes to your understanding and development as a future qualified Occupational Therapist. Some of the teaching and learning activities that you will experience during the course include:

Inter-professional learning (IPL) opportunities that are embedded within both years of this course with some modules being shared with physiotherapy students. Inter-professional learning is when you will learn with, from and about other professions to improve the quality of care. IPL is vital in supporting you to develop the knowledge, skills and insights necessary for employment within increasingly integrated and complex health and social care settings.

The service user is central to the curricula design, and service user and carer engagement with students on the programme is embedded within the module content and assessment of the modules. This will help you gain real life insight into service user experiences and also gain feedback from them as part of assessed components of this course.

It is recognised that allied health professionals lead and manage their own caseloads, other professionals, students and the physical resources within the health and social care setting. Therefore, leadership, coaching and mentoring skills are encouraged and embedded within the programme, with final placement students having the opportunity to mentor students who are on their second placement.

To further develop leadership and management skills, you will learn how to develop services, write business cases and manage projects, all of which are valuable skills to acquire when working in the NHS or in private practice.

The focus throughout the programme is on the application of occupational therapy practice to real world contexts, ensuring you develop skills that will help you to succeed in the workplace.

Research and contemporary evidence-based practice is central to all teaching and learning activity within the course to ensure all students have the most up to date knowledge upon its completion. This also ensures students have the required skills and knowledge to develop and improve services and their own and others’ practice through the utilisation of contemporary and evidence-based techniques.

The course also benefits from:

• A team committed to working to the Royal College of Occupational Therapists / World Federation of Occupational Therapists standards for their occupational therapy programmes.
• A focus on current public health priorities and the increasingly complex health needs of those using contemporary services.
• Visiting and honorary lecturers / speakers from a wide range of health care and related fields who bring contemporary and real-world examples of practice to your learning.
• Links and knowledge from local, national and international research initiatives undertaken in the Institute of Health and the wider University research institutes.
• Bespoke and specialist simulation suites to learn from such as a fully working mock house, complete with kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms.

During the programme you will have access to simulation facilities where you will be able to experience service user focused scenarios and develop your skills in a safe environment. This includes simulated in-hospital, home and community environments and our human-patient simulators will allow you to hone your skills, supported by experienced practitioners to guide you.