A warm welcome to our existing, new and future members. These webpages are designed to give you information about the COT specialist section - Children, Young People and Families.
If you have any difficulty finding what you are looking for, please contact the relevent NEC member.
If you would like to become a member of the specialist section please go to the membership pages.
LATEST NEW
South East
Event: Extraordinary General meeting
Date: 10th July 2008
Aim: To regenerate the group in the South East, share ideas and see what CYPF can do for you.
Venue: Seminar Room 1, Post Graduate Centre, Crawley Hospital, West Green Drive, Crawley, West Sussex, RH11 7DH.
Time: 5pm - 6.30pm
South East Introducation Letter Agenda (123KB 
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Membership Payment - Have you cancelled your Standing Order?
Since 2007, COT have not accepted membership payments by standing order. Some members however, are still paying by Standing Order (as well as by cheque), so please check that this is not you! If you do still have a Standing Order set up, please contact your bank to cancel this as soon as possible. All membership payments should be made via cheques payable to COT SS CYPF.
Clinical Advisors Posts
- Have you been qualified as an occupational therapist for more than 5 years?
- Have you worked in your area of children's services for at least 3 years?
If you can answer 'yes' to these two questions then read on...
Children, Young People and Families Specialist Section needs you!
We need therapists who can demonstrate experience and sound knowledge of their particular field of practice to:
- Provide information and opinion to consultations from national and professional agencies
- Inform responses to queries from members providing representative and evidence based information.
- Support the work of the NEC and the COT Practice Development Manager responsible for Children.
- Identify skills required and training needs for your area of practice;
- Inform the development of excellent clinical practice for your area of practice.
The COT Specialist Section Children, Young People and Families is the first specialist section to develop these roles. You can be contribute to us developing benchmarks for good practice.
The Specialist Section will provide induction, training and ongoing mentorship for these exciting and dynamic posts. These roles will provide a significant contribution to your CPD portfolio so what are you waiting for?
The specialist section will provide induction, training and mentorship for these exciting and dynamic posts, as well as help you to use this opportunity to evidence your CPD portfolio.
Interested in finding out more???
Please contact Louise Nicholl or Jackie Casey to find out more.
The specialist section NEC looks forward to answering any queries and to receiving your application.
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