🤞🤩 Good luck to our teams at the HSJ Awards @events.hsj.co.uk finals tonight!
Our #StaffMentalHealthService and #MusicTherapy service were chosen for outstanding work in two categories.
Well done to all finalists! 🌟
Have a great evening celebrating #NHS excellence 🥳
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/research-new...

Our occupational therapy team at the Cavell Centre in Peterborough has received this lovely feedback for Thank You Thursday from one of its patients. Well done, everyone 👏

A big shout-out to Ward Activity Co-ordinator Arinze Anya, who is based at our Cavell Centre in Peterborough, for this lovely feedback. Well done, Arinze! 👏

Sharing our review that suggests traumatic experiences in mental health inpatient settings - and far more insidious than just restrictive interventions - can worsen outcomes. We urge redesign of environment, processes and autonomy to improve care.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Researchers found that to address the epidemic of mental ill health among HCPs, workers needed:

Targeted MH interventions
Hot food
Rest areas/lockers
Free parking

Essentially staff just need to be valued & treated like human beings.

Rocket science it is not.
evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/system...

My English degree led to studying OT. I’ve always seen both as involving NARRATIVE. The person’s occupational narrative is our main interest in OT. We’re helping people write the next chapter of their life, through what they do. Stories, meaning, structure, metaphors to live by. #occupationaltherapy

Was fortunate enough to be asked to chat about the amazing work of our Therapy Team this year for OT Week. #OccupationalTherapy

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEr8...

Hello all 👋, mental health Occupational Therapist here, passionate about improvement for all who use adult inpatient mental health and learning disability services. Interested in identity & mental health, occupation as therapy, greenspaces, physical activity, creativity and all the rest!