Students

We always endeavour to offer a positive learning experience to students so please get in touch if you are interested in undertaking a SPOKE visit or placement with us. Requests are reviewed on an individual basis based on our capacity as a service and staff team at the time.

 

The Cart Shed is a service that runs on the principles of Occupational Therapy, as opposed to being an Occupational Therapy service. In practice that means that we don’t use an OT model of practice or any standardised OT assessment tools but that our core values as a service are rooted in the therapeutic benefits of occupation, occupation-based practices, and person-centeredness. It is important to be aware of this when considering a placement with us as it may impact on your ability to meet your placement aims.

 

Several of our Occupational Therapists are trained as Practice Educators and can supervise students on placements, but as none of our staff work full-time, on a day-to-day basis you would be working across provision with a variety of staff. As we only operate Monday-Thursday you will also need to identify relevant project work that can be undertaken off-site to make up your practice hours.

 

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer placements to students of professions other than Occupational Therapy. This is for a number of reasons including our staffing and the type and nature of our service delivery which makes it difficult to provide learning opportunities that meet placement aims. We do however welcome visits from students of other professions so please get in touch if you are interested in visiting us.

 

We also offer the opportunity for online Q&A sessions with our Clinical Lead for any students wishing to find out more about what we do.