Dear All, I am not posting any specific jobs here but if anyone would like any advice on finding employment in England as an Occupational Therapist in a...
Hello fello OT's, I am an OT working in a medium secure unit in the South West. I would like to ask other OT's in this setting for advice on what your ...
Hiya Tom I currently work within a medium/low secure hospital and our policy is a ratio of 1 OT staff member with upto a maximum of 4 patients for group work. ...
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Mar 9, 2004 6:21 pm
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Hello out there! As part of ongoing issues within our unit concerning how the team should operate we are having yet another working group to address how...
Pink Mike (RWN)
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Mar 10, 2004 2:14 pm
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Hi I have experience of working with both models, more recently with a multi-professional team which follows people right through from admission to discharge...
Hi I work in a medium secure unit in Scotland, we have tried to keep our policies in resepect to lone working as flexible as possible. This allows us to...
Hi, I think we've discussed this before but my sense is that: a. it's a hot topic for OT's b. protocols (for groups) need to be drawn together to reflect the...
Hello All again, As I mentioned in an earlier email, we are in a process of developing our unit ready to expand into a purpose built unit in the next two...
Pink Mike (RWN)
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Mar 12, 2004 12:19 pm
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Mark, and others Thanks for the follow up email Just wanted to come back on a couple of points Lone working within our unit One thought that occured to me...
Hello Mike In our unit we work by catchment area, so that each clinical team follows the patient through admission, rehabilitation and discharge. This means...
Hi Susan and all, I think Susan's answer was superb and addressed many of the points. The sticky issue for me is concerned with the art and practice of...
Hi (as I'm on a bit of a role with this, now I have my own question) As a multi-professional team we are all potentially involved in assessments of individuals...
Hi. I know that it's been a while since this was suggested; but was wondering whether anyone still had their PowerPoint slides available for uploading onto the...
Hi Mike Was there any response to Phil Gooch's initial request, I cant seem to recall any? I hope that the reason being for no response from the therapists...
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Mar 23, 2004 9:48 pm
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Just a quick note to tell anyone who hasn't heard about the UK self harm inquiry. The first ever UK Inquiry into deliberate self-harm among young people will ...
I write this because I heard of Ukcore at the Forensic OT Conference... does anyone have any details about it? I cant seem to find anything searching on the...
I write this because I heard of Ukcore at the Forensic OT Conference... does anyone have any details about it? I cant seem to find anything searching on the...
Hi UKCORE is based at the South Bank University in London now. You can make contact via Lynn Summerfield Mann, Principal Lecturer there. Sorry I dont know ...
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Mar 25, 2004 8:41 pm
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Hello all, sorry for doing this on a Friday morning, but if I've got to think about writing policies, so have you! I am involved in a group that is currently...
Slater Sarah (RWN)
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Mar 26, 2004 8:59 am
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thank you so much... saves many tears mary ... ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" ...
Hi Sarah It's Meagan O'Keefe from Sunny North Queensland in Australia. I'm not sure if your posting is referring to policy development for a mixed unit or...
Thanks to those who made comments about the lone working debate we are currently having, there were differing points of view which I will put forward when we...
i think it would be great to share stuff like policies here Tom. personally i probably have a load of stuff i can share on the yahoo site. when i get a minute...
Mary, The State Hospital, Carstairs, is one of the UKCORE partner sites. If you want to chat about it, you could phone me on 01555 840293 (ext 443). ...
No dates have yet been set for this years forensic conference, however, I can announce that the conference is now being organised by the Forensic Head OT...
Hi Sarah Sorry for the delayed reply. There is a multi-disciplinary working group that meets every three months at Broadmoor to look at care of women in medium...
Hello I'm doing a research paper on forensic treatment in Occupational Therapy. Does anyone have any peer-review online resources in regards to forensic OT...
