HS140-4-FY-CO:
Professional and Interprofessional Skills for Practice
2024/25
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
30 July 2024
Requisites for this module
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BSC B939 Occupational Therapy
This is your first inter-professional module, and brings together Occupational Therapy students from the School of Health & Social Care (HSC) and Physiotherapy students from the School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Science (SRES).
The module will provide the opportunity to explore and develop your understanding of professional and interprofessional working in health and social care environments. The module will also address the foundation skills that underpin your practice as an allied health professional. You will be introduced to the continuing professional development requirements of the regulatory body, Health and Care Professions Council, which will enable you to start the process of reflecting upon and planning your ongoing development.
The aim of the module is to introduce the concepts of professional and interprofessional practice and provide opportunities to develop understanding of the role of continuing professional development for health professionals.
On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:
1. Identify the concepts and roles of professional and interprofessional practice within health and social care contexts in exploring the development of your professional and interprofessional identity
2. Demonstrate the effective use of relevant and appropriate evidence to inform your learning
3. Demonstrate your understanding of the role of CPD in your journey as a health professional student
The module is delivered throughout the full academic year. You will examine and develop the foundation skills and knowledge in relation to professional practice and inter-professional working. Within module sessions you will have the opportunity to draw on these skills and knowledge, and apply them within practical, inter-professional group tasks and projects. These experiential sessions will help form the basis of your continuing professional development.
Overview:
The emphasis for this module will be on inter-personal and inter-disciplinary interaction. Tutors will facilitate some discussions within seminar sessions from which enquiry based learning (EBL) and self-directed initiatives will be developed.
Lectures: Key note lectures will introduce you to concepts and related knowledge of inter-professional working. These will form the basis on which collaborative, group working and independent learning will be focused.
Independent: You will work in small inter-professional groups using an EBL approach to further explore concepts and related knowledge introduced within key note lectures. You will combine EBL with self-directed, independent learning to consolidate your learning of the module.
Placement: Whilst this module does not include placement learning your learning from this module will inform your work on future taught modules, practice placements, and beyond. For example, by enabling you to understand and articulate the importance of inter-professional working.
Online: Using a blended learning approach you will be expected to engage and contribute to online group activities and use of online library facilities. A module Moodle page will support your learning on this module.
Tutorials: There will be formative and summative assessment tutorials. However, the emphasis for this module will be on your ability to articulate your informed thinking on specific subject areas within an informal tutorial milieu.
Skills: You will be supported in developing your skills in areas such as; accessing databases, using library catalogues, finding appropriate tools for critiquing articles, accessing professional and regulatory body information and documentation. You will be given a framework on which to base your engagement with the CPD process in order to identify your further development needs.
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Bolton, G.E.J. and Delderfield, R. (2018)
Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development. 5th edn. London, UK: SAGE Publications. Available at:
https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/249513.
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Jasper, M. (2013)
Beginning Reflective Practice. 2nd edn. Andover, UK: Cengage Learning. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5132784.
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Creek, J. (2023b)
Creek’s occupational therapy and mental health. Sixth edition. Edited by W. Bryant, J. Fieldhouse, and N.A. Plastow. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Available at:
https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/1960896.
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HCPC: Standards of proficiency for Occupational Therapists (no date). Available at:
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/standards-of-proficiency/occupational-therapists/.
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Day, J. (2013)
Interprofessional Working: An Essential Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals. 2nd edn. Andover, UK: Cengage Learning. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5132669.
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Porter, S.B. (ed.) (2013)
Tidy’s Physiotherapy. 15th edn. Edinburgh, UK: Churchill Livingstone. Available at:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780702043444.
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O’Toole, G. (2020)
Communication: core interpersonal skills for health professionals. Fourth edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Available at:
https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/772881.
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Melnyk, B., Gallagher-Ford, L. and Fineout-Overholt, E. (2019)
Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare. SIGMA Theta Tau International. Available at:
https://search-ebscohost-com.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1253918.
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Tilly, L. (ed.) (2022)
Health and social care research methods in context: applying research to practice. Oxon, UK: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Available at:
https://essex.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?operation=resolveService&package_service_id=4191027290007346&institutionId=7346&customerId=7345.
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HCPC: What is CPD (no date). Available at:
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/cpd/what-is-cpd/.
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‘Greber, C. (2021) Critical appraisal of practice evidence: A professional imperative for occupational therapy. New Zealand journal of occupational therapy. 68 (1), 11–14.’ (no date). Available at:
https://search-ebscohost-com.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cul&AN=151220246&site=ehost-live&authtype=sso&custid=s9814295.
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Health and Care Professions Council (no date). London, UK: Health and Care Professions Council. Available at:
https://www.hcpc-uk.org.
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Royal College of Occupational Therapists (no date). London, UK: Royal College of Occupational Therapists. Available at:
https://www.rcot.co.uk/.
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Hull University Skills Team (2014) ‘Reflective Writing’. Hull, UK: Hull University. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoI67VeE3ds.
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Department of Health & Social Care (no date). London, UK: Department of Health. Available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health.
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The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Written Reflection 1500 words (Learning) |
09/12/2024 |
50% |
| Practical |
Presentation |
16/05/2025 |
50% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mrs Charlotte Flynn, email: c.flynn@essex.ac.uk.
Staff from Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy teams
E: hscotadmin@essex.ac.uk
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No
No
No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
Of 58 hours, 26 (44.8%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
32 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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