In case you missed it. We gathered with #RighttoRehab coalition to demand that Scots government include a right to rehab in the Human Rights Bill. There is no right to health without rehab. ➡️Sign the petition here: chss.org.uk/policy-and-cam…… Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland | also on bluesky StrokeAssocScotland

⬇️ Band 5 post within Children’s Occupational Therapy in Dumfries and Galloway. Please share apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?… Karen Robertson OT @EmmaLairdOT Catherine McDerment Sarah Geidesz 🌻 Sarah Negrette Joanne Service AHP @FionaPaton11

Let's start OT week off by learning and understanding what the word Occupation means and why it is such an important part of our role as Occupational Therapists Occupations in occupational therapy #OTWeek23 youtu.be/DLeBWX3lG_I?si… via YouTube

Really refreshing to see some #OTreality being shared today! It can be hard to focus on meaningful occupations when we are trying to discharge safely and keep the bed flow as an acute OT! Especially in peak winter when winter pressures kick in!! #OTWeek23

What is occupation, and why does it matter? #OTWeek2023 wendy chambers Sarah Kirk

My good OT friend Laura Campbell doing her annual blog promoting the role of Occupational Therapists for #OTWeek2023 increasing the understanding of how our role fits in an array of clinical areas, focusing on what's important to the individual, in fulfilling their roles in life.

Calling all rehab professionals in UK who delivered care during the pandemic World Health Organization (WHO) are surveying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rehabilitation professionals and the delivery of rehabilitation services We need your views & experience - PLEASE ⬇️ extranet.who.int/dataformv3/ind…

Really useful resource Jennifer McClorey AHPDementiaD&G @ClaireMartinots jacqueline pike Laura K King RD Isla Green Lynne Mann Frailty, Food, wellbeing #dieticians #AHP

Thank you to Diarmuid & Chloe QMUPhysio students; your placement enriched the life of our specialist dementia ward, highly recommend reading AHPDementiaD&G jacqueline pike Dr Anna Jack-Waugh Laura Lennox AHPed @ClaireMartinots #lauraMorrison @jeaniecranG @gemlou43 Isla Green

This is why the role of #occupationaltherapy is so key in upper limb sensory & motor rehabilitation. OTs re-train the UL using occupation specific approach with use of everyday 'functional items'. This functional approach is evidenced based & key to recovery! RCOT Neuro Practice #valueofOT

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our Mental Health Occupational Therapy Team. #AHP #OccupationalTherapy #nhs #nhsscotland #nhscareers #mentalhealth Please click on the below link apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?… pic.x.com/ZRFX7q3ups

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an appropriately experienced and registered professional to join the Interventions IDEAS TEAM. You will have highly developed specialist knowledge and skills of working with individuals living with dementia apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?… pic.x.com/vH2yZvVKQP

Queen Square are hosting their neuro rehab upper limb course in June this year..

Do you provide unpaid care and support to a family member or partner who has dementia? A new education programme is now available locally to support family carers affected by dementia. For more information see images. pic.x.com/2AQtq9gHdV

Our 2nd year OT students have some thoughts to share on what Occupational Therapy is and isn’t!

The very dab! A'body's favourite family, The Broons, have teamed up wi' NHS Highland tae create a braw comic a' about deconditioning after hospital. Read a' about it on their website here buff.ly/3HX1c0a #NHSBROONS

In the first of our #NHSBROONS stories, Granpaw learns that gettin’ up an’ gettin’ dressed an’ movin’ is a right braw way tae start improvin’! Read the full story in this week's The Sunday Post!

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT ICU Occupational Therapists practicing their upperlimb skills testing myotomes and dermatomes. Ready to support patients displaying post intensive care syndrome with quality rehabilitation Critical Care Occupational Therapist Intensive Care Society 💙 ICURecovery #icurehab Ema Swingwood (She/her)

Shockingly, rehabilitation isn't available everywhere in the UK. Watch the #RehabLegends describe what rehab has meant to them. Help us end this postcode lottery by signing the petition. #RightToRehab

Our new poster University Hospital Wishaw explaining the role of the Major Trauma Co-ordinator here at our NHSL Trauma Unit #savinglivesgivinglifeback West of Scotland MTC Scottish Trauma Ntwk