There are two elements to this written assessment piece. The first is the preparation and submission of a CPD plan, with a narrative reflection supporting it. The narrative reflection is to be no less than 750 words and no more than 1000 words. The second is the preparation of a curriculum vitae which must be no less than two pages in length and no more than four pages in length. When explored in combination, the two elements in this assessment provide a clear picture of you as you emerge into your final term before graduating and registering as an occupational therapist.

Details of the assessment are as follows:

Part 1:

a) Initial development of CPD Plan (as per Occupational Therapy Board requirements - content covered in the first modules).  

b) This is informed by a reflection on your current knowledge and gaps in knowledge.

c) The CPD plan will span your 4th year and is a realistic, authentic and practical plan for your individual professional development. Activities may include attendance at or provision of in-services at your professional placement venue, participation in journal clubs, reading of journal articles, workshop attendance to name a few, and will be in line with the relevant requirement as per Occupational Therapy Board of Australia (OTBA).

d) This is intended to be a living document throughout T1 (and then beyond into the remainder of your 4th year) and is designed to help you transition to developing your future CPD plans as required by OTBA as a registration condition.

(You are only required to submit a CPD plan.  Upon registration, you add a CPD Portfolio to your CPD plan, documenting what you have learned and how it has changed your practice.  You are not required to add this element for your assessment piece in OCCT14003). 

f) You are encouraged to discuss CPD planning with your placement supervisors (past and present) to understand how practicing clinicians manage this requirement, what templates they prefer etc. 

g) You do not need to exceed two pages in length, formatted in either landscape or portrait, for your CPD plan.

h) The final part of this process will be a narrative linking your CPD plan and reflections. It is a clear explanation of your rationale, identified gaps, objectives and goals, linking what you have learned in modules 1, 2 and 3 to the CPD plan (750-1000 words)

Part 2:

a) The development of your curriculum vitae will be informed by your acquired knowledge in OCCT14003.

b) Specific guidance will be supplied in the module provided by the CQUni Careers specialist and this will add to your skills in communicating who you are as a candidate for an employed occupational therapy position.

c) The format must include: your personal contact details, career objective, education, details of professional placement skills and experience, past employment, transferable knowledge and skills from past employment or volunteering opportunities, details of two referees.

d) The CV must not exceed four pages.

Please upload two documents for assessment:

1) CPD plan  (2 pages formatted in either landscape or portrait), with the addition of your narrative summary at the end

2) Curriculum vitae (2-4 pages)

• informed, reflective content in a CPD plan (15 marks)
• synthesis of and reflection on learning needs and requirements of AOTCS 2018, Ahpra Shared Code of Conduct, feedback from SPEF-R (20 marks)
• CV content (10 marks)
• CV appearance (5) 

Assessment 2:   Portfolio 35% (week 9) 

This is a mentoring experience in which you provide mentoring as a 4th year occupational therapy student to students in their first term of their 2nd year of occupational therapy studies.  Mentoring is entirely online at a time mutually suitable to mentors and mentees. 

It is expected that a minimum of 6 sessions of 30 minutes each will be spent mentoring your allocated 2nd year occupational therapy students.  There must be evidence of (via a record of the session) that each meeting occurred for a minimum of 30 minutes.

You and another 4th year student will be paired, and you will be allocated a group of 3-4 occupational therapy students in their second year. the allocations will be completed by your unit coordinator and you will have those from week 1.

Mentoring is expected to occur online via Microsoft Teams, Zoom or similar at a time that is mutually convenient to you and your group of mentees.  As this occurs during the 1st half of the calendar year, it must be noted that expecting attendance of mentees on any of the public holidays is not appropriate. In addition, weekends and evening meetings must be avoided. The university and placement providers have an understanding that activities such as mentoring be included in the practicum time. The mentoring hours may be logged as WIL hours. 

The focus will be on remote mentoring and so please creatively use any tools or strategies at your disposal such as Doodle, Google Doc, and free versions of project management tools such as Trello.  Participation in this activity and associated assessment ready you for mentoring newer therapists, students and allied health assistants in your new graduate and early career as an occupational therapist.  

Before you feel ready to engage in formal clinical supervision of students or newer graduates (which is expected to occur after your new graduate year), mentoring skills consolidate your knowledge and skills and ready you for a transition to supervising.  During your early career and then beyond, you may provide both mentoring and supervision in various contexts.  It is acknowledged that you will build these skills as you go throughout Term 1 in this mentoring relationship and won’t possess everything you need immediately.  

The main aims of this mentoring activity and assessment are as follows:

1.      Encourage the development of mentees’ identity as a current 2nd year occupational therapy student and as a future health practitioner.

2.      Support mentees in their own reflective practice and self-management, with a particular focus on managing their study demands with a focus on OCCT12006 Understanding the Environment (and possibly OCCT12003 Occupational Therapy Across the Lifespan 1). 

3.      Conclude the period of mentoring by facilitating your mentees to articulate what they have gained from the mentoring arrangement and how it might shape their studies and self-management in T2 and beyond. 

You will keep a mentoring portfolio that includes a list of the meeting topics, the actions and outcomes arising from the meetings and reflections on your developing mentoring skills.  This portfolio must be in a format that can be readily uploaded to Moodle.  It is usually preferable to upload in a Word format and large files will be allowed.  Please upload four documents for assessment:

1) The signed Mentoring Agreement (template available on Moodle).

2) Log of mentoring - dates, start & finish time of meeting, attendees, topics discussed, solutions/ideas/brainstorming and agreed actions (template available on Moodle). *  **

3) Your self-assessment of where your mentoring skills sit at the conclusion of Term 1 (template available on Moodle). 

4) Your weekly reflections (x6), summarising what went well in each session, what was difficult or challenging, observation of your personal strengths and weaker points, with a concluding overall summary of how this experience has developed your skills. Word count = 250-350 for each summary and 800-1000 for the concluding summary.

A resource folder has been tailored and compiled for you on Moodle to support you to undertake this activity. You may find some resources and ideas more useful than others, but a range will be provided for you to peruse. Please ensure you are thoroughly cognisant of the resources that have been selected to support your skills in this mentoring activity and the associated documentation.

* Please note, the Unit Coordinator does not need to see details of each meeting, who said what, the details of issues raised, who suggested which strategy etc.  You may keep a more detailed record that captures that for your purposes, but it is confidential between the mentors and mentee and I do not need to view it. 

Assessment criteria: 

·         Evidence of active participation in the online mentoring experience (including maintenance of ethical and professional boundaries and confidentiality) 

·         Organised portfolio capturing all necessary elements

·         Reflection skills linked to self-assessment of the process 

** Please ensure that your 2nd year mentees have the final log of attendance before they submit for OCCT12006 in week 9.

You MUST contact all mentees allocated to you before cob on Friday of week 1.  The Unit Coordinators in both OCCT14003 & OCCT12006 will be checking that this has occurred. 

For those  on placement during Term 1 dates (the majority of the cohort), please discuss with your practice educator your ability to attend mentoring obligations during your first week of placement and let your Professional Practice Manager (CQUniversity) know if you have any challenges with scheduling these mentoring sessions into your weekly schedule (6 weeks in total prior to the week 9 submission).  Please have 6 sessions completed by the Sunday of week 8, ready to compile all paperwork for submission in week 9. Remember, this is 30 minutes out of each week for 6 weeks of the official academic term, prior to week 9 submission. 

• record-keeping comprising submission of required documents (5 marks)
• reflection - self-awareness, learning and growth (25 marks)
• written communication and expression (10 marks) 

This is an oral format assessment in which you will undergo a viva to examine your knowledge of the Australian Occupational Therapy Competency Standards (2018) (AOTCS 2018) as they relate specifically to a range of clinical scenarios and questions. This will occur as an individual assessment and will be for a duration of 15 minutes (with an additional 10 minutes of perusal time at the beginning). It will be conducted via zoom and will be recorded for the purposes of assessment moderation. Please set aside 30 minutes for this assessment as per the schedule provided to you by the unit coordinator.

All Oral Examinations will be scheduled during week 12 of term. The schedule will be provided to you in week 1 of term, so that you may arrange your time in advance, particularly regarding the provision of notice to your clinical supervisor if you are on professional practice placement at that time. It is expected that you will arrange all other commitments around this appointment time of 30 minutes’ duration.

In this Oral Examination, you will demonstrate your thorough working knowledge of the AOTCS 2018, communicating how the criteria feature in the provision of occupational therapy services and critically determining which criterion or combination of criteria are applicable in which clinical and service scenarios.

Sample case scenarios with relevant questions about the AOTCS (2018) will be supplied on the Moodle platform throughout term to consolidate lecture content and will scaffold your learning and prepare you. You are encouraged to fully engage with those learning opportunities.

• problem identification AOTCS 2018, Ahpra Code of Conduct 2022 (and any other relevant legislation)  (25 marks)
• clinical judgment and professional reasoning (20 marks)
• clinical knowledge application (15 marks)
• client-centred approach (10 marks)
• verbal communication skills (10 marks)