Occupational Therapy

This highly popular single honours Occupational Therapy (OT) course will equip you with the skills required to practise as a competent occupational therapist in a wide variety of environments.

On completion of the course, you will work with people of all ages, including children and young people in a variety of settings including hospitals, within the community, workplaces, schools, homes and a variety of voluntary settings.

You will support people to develop skills to best manage any limitations or disabilities, and enable them to fulfil the demands of their daily lives with greater satisfaction. This could be in all areas of physical disability and rehabilitation, mental health, or learning disability.

Why should I study OT at Oxford Brookes?

• A long and prestigious history of preparing occupational therapists to deliver and develop excellent OT practice in the UK and internationally.
• A modern university with a very friendly and supportive environment in which to learn.
• Excellent teaching facilities including state-of-the-art AVA classroom and lecture theatre facilities, clinical skills suites and simulation resources, which include a fully equipped movement laboratory, family of computerised simulation manikins, and an extensive range of anatomy models.
• An Activity of Daily Living (ADL) suite, designed to simulate the home environment. It has a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room areas, designed to recreate real life scenarios to enable you to learn to provide care or promote independence.
• A fully resourced orthotics suite designed to make the full range of orthoses required to support upper limb function or relieve disabling pain.
• Fully networked computer rooms and excellent library resources, accessible on university and NHS sites.
• A wide variety of practice learning opportunities throughout Oxford, London and the South East, many of which have national and international reputations for innovation and the quality of the care and support provided.
• Experienced lecturers who maintain excellent links with practice areas locally or across the region. A number of our lecturers also have extensive national and international links.
• Broad range of student support schemes to facilitate learning and development.
• Opportunity to share your learning with students from other health and social care professions.
• Excellent track record of high levels of student satisfaction, low student attrition rates and high employability.
• Career opportunities such as specialist areas of practice, research, teaching or management. Some occupational therapists go on to take NHS consultant posts, in industry or with charities, both in the UK and abroad.

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How to apply

Full time: You apply for this course through UCAS.

Part-time and in-service: Direct to the university.

International students

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