BAOT encourages all members to be advocates for the profession
Strategic activity includes working with:
- government Ministers and Assembly Members
- government agencies in all countries e.g. Department of Health
- voluntary organisations
- other membership organisations
- private sector organisations
- Allied Health Professions Federation
- Other health and social care professional groups
- All Party Parliamentary Groups
The College of Occupational Therapists believes that everyone in the UK has the right to information, help and support to be able to work, whether this is paid employment, voluntary work or work to care for family or home
Occupation is core to the practice of occupational therapy. Occupational therapists are experts who work with both employers and employees to help people who have disabilities or ill health remain in, return to or move into meaningful activity, work or paid employment.
A strategy for modernising occupational therapy services in local health and social care communities
This COT strategy was launched in 2002 and sought to:
- promote the integration of occupational therapy services between and across the health and social care
- agencies that would better use current resources and provide a more timely response to service users
- provide a conceptual model for service delivery based on the revised International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF-2)
- re-assert the value and importance of 'occupation' for the users of occupational therapy services and to
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These documents define social media best practice for BAOT/COT, Regional Groups and Specialist Sections
BAOT/COT has developed presences on popular social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Linkedin and Flickr to expand professional networking opportunities and the promotion of occupational therapy.
Download BAOT/COT Social Media Guidance
This draft document advises BAOT/COT staff and members in elected positions (e.g. Council members, committee members, Specialist Sections, Regional groups) how to use social media in their professional roles.
The College has a ten year mental health strategy called Recovering Ordinary Lives 2007-2017
Recovering Ordinary Lives provides three valuable documents about mental health and occupational therapy:
Recovering Ordinary Lives - A Vision for the Next Ten Years
This document clearly describes key messages for the profession and others to work towards to improve mental health services.
Download Recovering Ordinary Lives - A Vision for the Next Ten Years
Research and Development Officers undertake a range of strategic activities to inform and influence the agendas that impact on occupational therapy research and knowledge management
These include:
- membership of the National AHP Informatics Strategy Taskforce (NAHPIST), which provides strategic advice and recommendations to the AHP professional bodies, the NHS Commissioning Board and DH Informatics Directorate, considering the needs of practice, research, education and management
- membership of various national project boards overseeing the development of information and record standards to support the diversity of NHS clinical practice, research, education and management
Research strategies cover eleven specialist areas of practice
The College's Research and Development Strategic Vision and Action Plan has been replicated as a tool for the development of targeted research and development strategies for each of the College's Specialist Sections. The College works with the Specialist Sections to review progress in achieving the objectives set out in their individual strategies.
Download Review of Specialist Sections Research & Development Strategies (2007)
