| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | 2023-06-30 |
| 2024-01-23 | - |
| 2024-04-24 | - |
Program Overview
Overview
Our Occupational Therapy programme offers you an active, collaborative learning experience in a friendly, supportive environment.
You’ll gain the theoretical understanding and hands-on practical experience you need to become a professional Occupational Therapist.
You develop knowledge of:
Occupational Therapists help people recover from physical or mental illness, supporting them to live their life to the fullest.
You’ll work with both adults and children in a range of health and social care settings, finding creative solutions to day-to-day problems.
You'll learn from highly experienced practising Occupational Therapists in a small cohort, and develop your skills in real-life environments and situations, both in our outstanding simulation facilities and on our diverse range of practice placements, undertaken in all three years.
Professional accreditation
The successful completion of BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy will allow eligibility to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an occupational therapist.
The course is also approved by the
Royal College of Occupational Therapists
.Program Outline
What you will study
All module information is for 2022 entry, and is subject to change.
First year
Professional Knowledge and Foundations of Practice
Performance of Occupational Beings
Professional Placement One
Developing Occupational Therapy Practice
Second year
Final year
Core
Option
Learning and assessment
The BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy uses a wide range of teaching and learning strategies that reflect the diversity of the student population and accommodate differing learning styles.
This varied approach seeks to facilitate the success of all students and the all-round development of a competent Occupational Therapy practitioner able to meet the learning outcomes for the programme.
The curriculum has a central focus on occupation, including occupational science throughout the programme - ensuring you recognise this as a central tenet of the profession.
The curriculum supports your application of theory into practice in order to develop your skills in addressing occupational limitations and enhancing performance.
You will be supported by the programme team and other University services to develop your academic skills following the period of transition into Higher Education and then throughout the programme. Graduates from Bradford will be critical thinkers, able to use reflection and analysis to identify their future learning needs.
They will be personally and professionally resilient. Research informed lectures are supplemented with group tutorials and practical sessions to facilitate an active and collaborative approach to learning.
Case-based scenarios are used to facilitate the development of your clinical/professional reasoning skills, and the inclusion of service users and carers within the learning and teaching experience will provide a person-centred perspective and further develop your understanding of the relationship between, health, wellbeing, occupation and occupational performance.
The programme team work in close alliance with local and regional stakeholders from a range of NHS, private, independent and voluntary organisations to ensure that the content of the programme is appropriate for your future professional career.
Throughout the programme you are encouraged to use a reflective e-portfolio to record learning experiences. The use of an e-portfolio is an ideal way to continue to evidence reflection and Continuing Professional Development, a statutory part of continued professional registration, with the University of Bradford enabling you to have a life time account with Pebblepad, (an e-portfolio system), when you convert to an alumni account at graduation. Assessments will include professional practice placement assessments, written assignments, reflective portfolios, practical assessments, oral and poster presentations.
Service users, clinicians and academic staff will be involved in marking assessments across the three years.
Official programme specification
Career support
The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies. Students are encouraged to access this support at an early stage and to use the extensive resources on the
Careers
website.Discussing options with specialist advisers helps to clarify plans through exploring options and refining skills of job-hunting. In most of our programmes there is direct input by Career Development Advisers into the curriculum or through specially arranged workshops.
Career prospects
The programme team is particularly proud of its graduates, many of whom chose employment locally and who now provide placements for current students thus providing a fantastic sense of cohesion between students and local practitioners. Students consistently obtain employment in traditional and diverse areas of practice, with feedback from clinicians that Bradford graduates are well prepared for employment and have higher profiles when entering the employment market.
Graduates go into roles in private, NHS or social services employment, or for jobs outside of the usual statutory organisations.
