💚For my MSc Pre-registration Occupational Therapy dissertation, I’m exploring how prepared newly qualified OTs feel to deliver evidence-based stroke rehabilitation in clinical practice. 💚

If you:

🧠Qualified as an OT in the past two years in the UK, and

🧠Have current or previous post-qualification experience in stroke rehabilitation,

Please feel free to participate by clicking the link below, which will take you to the survey (~10 minutes).

Please read the participant information sheet before starting.

Participants needed!

Are you a UK based paediatric OT who has delivered services using MS Teams or similar online platforms? If so, I would love to hear about your experiences.

I am a MSc Occupational Therapy student at the University of Winchester and am interested in exploring practitioners’ experiences of using telehealth to deliver interventions to children and their families. As an increasing number of healthcare services are delivered online, your input will shed light on practitioners’ experiences of this shift.

If you are interested in finding out more about this study or sharing your experiences with me in an interview, please email me at: b.crouch.24@unimail.winchester.ac.uk

This study has received approval from the University of Winchester Ethics committee (ref. HWB-OT-0825BC).

Thank you so much for your time.

Does anyone have any advice or guidance on how to supervise junior staff. I have just started a new band 6 post and will be supervising a band 4 and band 5 staff. I have mentored students but never a staff member so any advice will be great

For OTs in a leadership or management position, what is the most important aspect of leadership?

“Following a discussion with my colleague, nurse Flavie Pons, about the use and misuse of #AI in #care by our #patients in #psychiatry… These two draft diagrams have started to spark my thinking… And yours?”

lien linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaelle-charlot-91010814_ai-care-patients-activity-7382015501297668096-f5Mg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAALdBxwBQafL76SphpUhlyOL3gaDuazxX2o

Creative AI used: SunoIA

 Author: Gaëlle Charlot

 Software: ChatGPT

 Date: October 14, 2025

"I am beginning to explore the use of AI as a therapeutic mediator in psychiatry, supporting the expression of emotions and internal conflicts, the structuring of thought processes, engagement with the reality principle, and the development of frustration tolerance, for example through activities such as painting, collage, and similar creative exercises.

✨ When a patient shares that they turned to ChatGPT in moments of #loneliness or with #suicidalThoughts, it raises important questions:

👉 Could AI become a tool or a therapeutic mediator in our practices?

 👉 Could we guide our patients to use these new technologies in a safe, meaningful, and supportive way?

💡 Mental health prevention also means embracing innovation and helping people build responsible digital habits.

🔗 To watch (or rewatch): https://lnkd.in/ei23M_Z7

Discuss clinical applicability of research - to enhance your evidence-based practice and continuing professional development (CPD)!

-What is a journal club?-

A journal club (JC) is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically discuss the clinical applicability of articles in current research journals. They are usually facilitated by a host/facilitator, who chooses a relevant article and prepares learning points for discussion.

Running for over a century, JCs have acted as a powerful education tool. They evolved in healthcare to encourage scholarly activity and research awareness, through reading and discussion of journal articles. In the medical field (medicine, radiology, nursing, etc), they have been going for some time. In general, only regional occupational therapy JCs have been active...

-Why participate - and in this JC?-

With pressures of modern life, keeping abreast of rapidly-growing medical literature can be difficult. However...

Barriers to running more traditional, 'in-person' JCs can include:

• Challenges organising hosts and participants to meet at set times

• Difficulty recruiting regional experts

• Effort and time spent having a limited, local impact

But with today's technology, online education can open up learning possibilities - without geographical or time constraints. With the privilege of a global community, the Hub is pleased to bring you a FREE and open-access journal club!

-How does it work?-

1. An open-access journal article is selected periodically by a Hub Member, who takes the role of JC host, over a few months.

2. A summary and review of the article is posted in The OT Journal Club section of OT Circles, by the host.

3. The JC is then open for online discussion and critique, providing shared learning and professional development.

4. Participants can then print the JC page, with their input, as a record for their CPD/CEU file!

-Interested in being a JC host?-

To understand how the JC is structured, check out a previous one. For example:

• Rehabilitation Approaches for TBI (Autumn 2025)

• Sensory Integration and Autism  (Summer 2019)

To get started, please consider:

• what topic or theme you would like to discuss

• if you have a specific journal article in mind (must be open-access)

Then get in touch with the Hub Team, via either of the following:

• Email - hubteam@theOThub.com

• Online form - Connect with the Hub

We will assist you through the full process. This would start with you summarising and critiquing your chosen article - sending us a draft in email or Word format.

The Hub Team looks forward to your participation and to growing this collective knowledge base!