Overview and Purpose:

In an allocated group, you will prepare and deliver a 15-minute oral presentation. It will show your understanding and ability to apply knowledge about legislation and professional ethics pertinent to selected areas of Enabling Work Participation practice as an occupational therapist. It is expected you will demonstrate effective and professional presentation skills, building on the skills you have already used in Year 1 & 2. You will actively engage with your peers through sharing an annotated bibliography of sources and facilitating a question time at the end of your presentation. This assessment reflects common oral presentation formats for many professional conferences, in-services and training opportunities.

The Presentation Task:

You will be allocated a group and topic. This will be published on Moodle in Week 1. In your group, you will independently research professional literature and relevant legislation to identify factors that influence practice as an occupational therapist in your allocated enabling work context. You must:

1. Explain the OT & team roles: Clearly outline the role of the occupational therapist, including our unique contribution to a team who works with clients in the context allocated. Give examples of the expected range of work enabling responsibilities and duties for an occupational therapist in the team. Explain who else would be in the team. Provide a brief summary about what each of the other key professionals and stakeholders in the team contribute to the process of enabling client’s work participation. Provide evidence to support your choices. (suggest 4-6 slides) (20 marks)

2. Explain how the Legislation and OTAustralia Code of Ethics (2014) applies to the allocated practice area: In your own words, synthesise pertinent information from the relevant Legislative Act focusing on why the legislation allocated with your area of practice is important to consider. Do not simply present long sections that are copied directly from the legislation and code. Discuss how the legislation and the OT Australia Code of Ethics (2014) is used by an OT to guide service delivery in the work enabling role you described in Part 1. In other words, what should occupational therapists ensure they do when working in this area of practice to address the legislative and ethical obligations? (suggest 4-6 slides) (20 marks)

3. Explain how the OT role and legislation demonstrates occupational justice: Clarify how occupationally just practice is impacted by the legislation in your selected work enabling context. Do not simply give an explanation of the four occupational justice principles of deprivation, alienation, marginalisation and imbalance. You must synthesise reasons why occupational therapists are interested in occupational justice that enables work participation in this area, what legislation mandates for both the client and occupational therapist, and future possibilities for occupationally just practice in this area. (suggest 3-4 slides) (20 marks)

4. Facilitate a class discussion: Develop 2 questions to ask your audience to facilitate discussion in the 5-minute question time after your presentation. Please do not prepare any new information to present during question time. Make sure your questions are open-ended and easily able to be answered by your peers in relation to what you have already presented. (suggest 1-3 slides) (20 marks)

5. Share key resources: Briefly present 2 key sources from your Annotated Bibliography of 6 sources (the Bibliography will include your selected Legislative Acts but you should already have discussed these in #2). Provide your whole Bibliography as an electronic resource for your peers via the OCCT13001 Moodle General Discussion forum before your presentation. If you do not share your bibliography with your peers before the presentation you will not obtain any marks for this component. (suggest 1-2 slides for 2 key sources) (10 marks)

6. Engage your audience: Deliver your presentation using a high standard of verbal and non-verbal communication, with appropriate use of multimedia and within the time limits set (minimum 12-maximum 17 minutes) for the 15-minute presentation and maximum 5 minutes’ question time. (10 marks)

NB: Any student with an approved extension who is not able to present in class on the scheduled day in Week 5 cannot facilitate a peer group question time and will be set an alternative task as part of the presentation assessment.

Overview and Purpose:

This assessment requires you to synthesise the information you have learned so far in this unit of study. You will generate a realistic Initial Needs Report similar to what would be expected in case management, a role that many occupational therapists perform in work enabling contexts. As occupational therapists, we can perform a comprehensive job task analysis and give advice regarding a client’s occupational performance for work, domestic and psychosocial contexts.

Scenario: You are the occupational therapist acting as a generic case manager for the referred client, Mrs. Andrea Sullivan. In this case, you are working in a consultative role for WorkCover, planning and overseeing the range of treatments and interventions that Andrea requires to return to work after her work-related injury. You will usually refer Andrea to a range of appropriate health professionals to deliver direct interventions (including occupational therapy) in your case management role. It is rare that you would deliver client interventions directly as a case manager.

Your task: Complete a realistic initial needs assessment report template for Andrea. This report will enable clear and effective communication with the treatment team. It will also enable insurer funding approval so Andrea can commence her rehabilitation program to support her eventual return to work. You will need to research best practice for managing the type of injury she has, and suggest appropriate strategies for all phases of her recovery. Ensure all interventions align with client centred goals for improving Andrea’s function. You can assume that Andrea is collaborating with you as the case manager so that her management plan is client centred. You will do the practice case of Brenda Brown in class to help you complete this report independently for your assessment submission.

Additional documents provided in Moodle Assessment Resources folder:

Client case history interview transcript, Work Capacity Certificate, completed K10 and Orebro questionnaires.

Use all of the documents for Andrea, along with information from published research, textbooks, and OCCT13001 lectures, to inform your reasoning when completing all sections of the report template.

Overview and purpose:

This assessment requires you to apply the work enabling skills and knowledge you have developed throughout this unit of study. You will generate a realistic Recover At Work Plan for an injured worker, similar to what would be expected in practice.

Scenario: You are the occupational therapist who has received a referral from the WorkCover Case manager. You have been asked to develop a written Recover at Work Plan for the injured client that meets the treating doctor's recommendations. You have arranged a workplace assessment to observe work duties that the client's employer thinks are suitable for the Plan. You have also had funding approval to monitor the client’s program for 1 hour per week once they commence the Recover at Work Plan. You should ensure your Recover at Work Plan has embedded adherence to relevant legislative requirements.

You will do the practice case of Brenda Brown in class to help you complete this case study independently for your assessment submission.

Essential information available in the Assessment Resources folder on Moodle:

Worker background history, Work Capacity Certificate for the injured worker, Job Task Analysis template, Suitable Duties Plan template.

You can adapt the templates by adding rows to tables where needed. Please keep the page layout, margins and font used in the templates for ease of reading.

Part A: Job Task Analysis

The Job Task Analysis component is to demonstrate your client work assessment skills. You will watch a video to assess a worker completing two usual work duties. You will then complete a Job Task Analysis template. In the template, you will record what you observe from the client video in relation to the person and the environment that they are working in. You will describe the job task duties, identify the relevant (critical) physical demands, and analyse the worker functional capacity to help you select and upgrade appropriate work for the client’s Suitable Duties Plan.

In your Job Task Analysis, you must:

1. Select and describe the key requirements of the two job task duties from your observations of the worker videos and using the worker case history information provided.

2. Use the Job Task Analysis Template to analyse the physical demands of each duty observed.

3. Analyse the worker functional capacity for meeting each physical demand listed in the template. Use your professional reasoning to provide a rationale for how you will include upgrading of each demand in the SDP.

Part B: Suitable Duties Plan

You will then use your Job Task Analysis to complete a graded Suitable Duties Plan Template that meets legislative and best practice requirements.

In your Suitable Duties Plan you must:

4. Include all stakeholder details and information about the worker’s pre-injury work role.

5. Write a long term (6-12 months) goal and short term objectives (methods for achieving goal) for the Suitable Duties Plan. Include dates plan starts and finishes.

6. Clarify any medical restrictions and functional limitations of the worker according to the case information provided.

7. Select graded suitable work duties for the worker to complete over a four-week period, completing the Suitable Duties Plan Template. Ensure your upgrading is steady and not too fast or too slow to achieve your SDP aims.

8. Describe how and when the suitable duties plan will be monitored. Describe process to occur to manage any client symptoms increase during the SDP.

9. Discuss recommendations for rest breaks, symptom management and any assistance required with work tasks, along with in-text citations of evidence supporting your statements.

10. Provide a covering letter to your treatment team explaining the purpose of the plan and any abbreviations used in the SDP.

11. Provide a reference list of minimum 5 APA 6 style sources that includes relevant legislation, support for contemporary best practice interventions and occupational therapy models and practice principles that inform your Suitable Duties Selections, accommodations and upgrading.