RCOT Northern and Yorkshire Regional Roadshow 18/19 – Enabling Productive Lives

RCOT Roadshows are annual events hosted by RCOT regions for all occupational therapists, occupational therapy staff and occupational therapy students.

Enabling Productive Lives

This roadshow will cover:

1. Why productivity is central to good health and occupational therapy practice.
2. Embracing new forms of participation: what does this mean for society, service users and occupational therapy practice.
3. An introduction to Getting My Life Back: Occupational therapy promoting mental health and wellbeing and the latest campaign materials.

This session is designed to give an overview of relevant policy developments, tools to support practice and current RCOT activity.

Participants will be encouraged to: 

• Reflect on how they currently support: 

1. People to be productive and active members of their community
2. Delivery of the policy agenda surrounding work and employment
3. Consider how to innovate their practice to enable productive lives 
4. Generate ideas and future actions for the Occupational Therapy: improving lives saving money campaign

Please note:

• Refreshments will be provided.
• There is some parking available on campus. For sat-nav, use City Campus: SR2 7PT.
• The campus has its own metro station for those traveling from Tyne & Wear.
• Download the campus map from the University of Sunderland site.