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LEARNING ZONE
LEARNING ZONE
CPD COURSES AND EVENTS
Inclusion of courses and events not run by RCOT
does not imply endorsement of them.
For further information on advertising contact: David Agyei on 020 7450 2341 or email: [email protected]
THROUGHOUT 2019
Trusted assessor training: Simple
aids of daily living, level two or
level three
DOTS Disability CIC
This two-day OCN London accredited
course provides competence and
confidence to enable staff to assess for,
prescribe and install (simple aids of daily
living) equipment. Our training was
developed with funding from the Office for
Disability Issues. We are able to offer training
to groups from our Dorset or London venue,
or at your venues around the country.
Venue: The Bridge, Littledown Centre,
Chaseside, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH7 7DX.
Cost: On request. Contact: Karen 01202
771 336; email: [email protected].
Visit: www.dotsdisability.co.uk
ONGOING THROUGHOUT 2019
Distance learning courses and
recorded online training in the
assessment and treatment of
neurological injury
Brain Tree Training
Instructors: Kit Malia and Anne Brannagan.
Home/work based study courses.
Designed to help you understand and apply
key areas with your patients. Expert guided
tuition via assignments and recorded online
training. Emphasis on practical application
in the areas of cognition, executive function,
behaviour and awareness following brain
injury. Venue: Home/work based study.
Cost: £10 – £252.50. Visit: www.
braintreetraining.co.uk
22 JANUARY 2019
Chiltern music therapy
RCOTSS – Neurological Practice,
North Thames Region
This is an introduction to Chiltern Music
Therapy and the services and therapy that
they provide. Neurologic music therapy is
intended to help clients maintain or improve
their speech and communication, motor
skills, cognitive skills, and emotional
wellbeing. Emily White, one of the
organisation’s music therapists, will be
describing how neurologic music therapy
can help people with neurological conditions
and diagnoses. Venue: Holywell
Rehabilitation Unit, Watford WD25 9FG.
Time: 15:30 – 17:30. Cost: RCOTSS-NP
members: Free; others: £10. Please book
through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
ssnp-nt-chiltern-music-therapy-
tickets-53537484056
23 JANUARY 2019
Essential skills for practice:
Embracing risk
Occupational therapists must embrace and
engage with risk to help people reach their
chosen goals. This study day, facilitated by
Henny Pearmain, will help you understand
the underlying professional and legal
requirements and how to implement this
within the workplace. Attendance will help
you to see how risk can be managed to
enable people to overcome the barriers that
prevent them from doing the activities that
matter to them. Venue: RCOT, London.
Cost: Members £80; non-members £120.
Visit: www.rcot.co.uk/risk
24 JANUARY AND 1 FEBRUARY 2019
Study day for independent
occupational therapists
Irwin Mitchell Solicitors together with
RCOTSS-IP
Aimed at those working in the medico-legal
field as a treating therapist and those
considering working as a medico-legal
expert or treating therapist. With two
interactive sessions: Your records as a
treating therapist: why do lawyers want
them and what are they used for?; Treating
therapist and medico-legal expert: what is
the difference? Venue: Irwin Mitchell
Solicitors, One St Peter's Square,
Manchester M2 3AF. Time: 10:00 to 15:00.
Cost: RCOTSS-IP members Free; non-
members £15. Visit: https://bit.ly/2Fuf1rP
or https://bit.ly/2Fv80ao
1 FEBRUARY 2019
Look before you leap business
start-up training course
RCOTSS – Independent Practice
One-day workshop endorsed by RCOT;
aimed at occupational therapists either
considering the leap into, or new to,
independent practice; providing a broad
understanding of the practical aspects of
business start-up and the opportunity to
explore the rewards and challenges that it
brings; and led by an established
independent occupational therapist. Venue:
RCOT HQ, London. Time: 09:30 to 16:30.
Cost: Early bird members £145; early bird
non-members £175 (ends 31 December
2018); members £175; non-members £215.
Visit: https://bit.ly/2Tvnn5E
2 FEBRUARY 2019
RCOT Eastern region roadshow –
Occupational therapy: Enabling
productive lives
RCOT Eastern Region
This year's RCOT roadshow is centered on
enabling productive lives, why enabling
people to be productive is core to
occupational therapy and we discuss link
between the social determinants of health,
productivity and health and wellbeing at
different stages in our lives. Venue: David
Rayner Building, Scottsdale Centre, 120
Cambridge Road, Great Shelford CB22
5JT. Cost: Free for member and non
members. Contact: rcot.eastern@rcot.
co.uk. Visit: https://bit.ly/2Q70hnP
2 AND 3 FEBRUARY 2019
BBTA’s Introduction to Bobath
Concept with Sue Armstrong
Royal United Hospital
These BBTA modules introduce participants
to the assessment and treatment of adults
with neuromuscular dysfunction. The
modules consist of theoretical and practical
sessions and patient demonstrations.
Module one: What is normal movement?
Module two: Assessment and treatment of
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