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 NEWS
College of Occupational Therapists 32nd Annual Conference and Exhibition
incorporating Specialist Section – HIV/AIDS, Oncology, Palliative Care Annual Conference
Harrogate International Centre
Endorsed by the College of Occupational Therapists as a formal CPD opportunity
Professional development underpins all the sessions at Conference. Using all the College’s CPD tools, including published learning outcomes, CPD action plan, skills matching tool and online self assessment tools you can be assured that you will build tangible evidence for your CPD portfolio.
There are many learning opportunities for OT's working with Children, Young People and Families throughout the conference, including seminars, workshops and papers directly related to the work of paediatric OT's, as well as wider learning opportunities surrounding service development, student education and occupational therapy practice as a whole.
Please follow link to see sessions specifically related to work with children, young people and their families (214KB 
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Children, Young People and Families
London Region Study Day in association with Matrix Law
Monday 12th May 2008 9am - 5pm at College of Occupational Therapy, London
£30 members
£50 non-members
(lunch included)
Event flyer and application form (51KB *)
OT wanted for recommendatations on non-cancer pain in children working party (11KB *)
The Council of the British Pain Society is putting together a working party to produce recommendations on non-cancer pain in children and they are keen to involve an Occupational Therapist. The Group will be following the SIGN guidelines process. If you are interested in this project or would like further details, please contact the occupational therapy representative on the Council of the British Pain Society
Dr Derek Jones BA (Hons) Dip COT Phd
Programme Leader, BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
EH21 6UU.
E-Mail: djones@qmu.ac.uk
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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