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COT Supporting Mental Wellbeing: Products, Events, Networks | Genevieve Smyth

Explore products, events, and networks by the College of Occupational Therapists aimed at promoting mental wellbeing, including new roles under the Mental Health Act. Get involved and enhance your practice!

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COT Supporting Mental Wellbeing: Products, Events, Networks | Genevieve Smyth

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  1. College of Occupational TherapistsIs COT working for you?Genevieve SmythCrown Plaza Hotel, 27th April, 2009

  2. Introduction • Products and events • Networks • Consultations

  3. Products to support you • 3 keys to a shared approach in mental health assessment (NIMHE 2008) • OT interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care (NICE 2008) • Mental Health Act 2007 New roles (NIMHE 2008)

  4. Products • Enhance, Include, Evolve –New ways of working for allied health professionals (CSIP/NIMHE 2009) • Development of the Recovering Ordinary Lives self assessment toolkits • OTN –Jan and March focus on mental health, recent articles about payment by results, new roles under the Mental health act (2007)

  5. Events to support you • Recovering Ordinary Lives study day • Recovering Ordinary Lives –Two years on • Celebration of Socially Inclusive OT practice • Inter professional Stock take and Showcase of Socially Inclusive Practice

  6. Events • COTSS-Mental Health Eating Disorder sub group study day • Creating Capable Teams Approach workshop • COT led sessions at the COT conference in the Mental Capacity act (2005) and the Mental Health act (2007) • Wales –teaching session about the new roles, Wales mental health managers about developing local mental health strategies

  7. Networks to support you • COTSS-Mental Health National Executive committee meetings • COTSS- Mental Health Forensics sub group conference • New Ways of Working Steering Group –NHS Confederation • Inter professional collaborative with key professional bodies

  8. Networks • All Party Parliamentary Groups for Suicide Prevention run by the Samaritans • All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental Health run by the Royal College of Psychiatrists • The email network for mental health strategic lead/head OTs in the UK

  9. Networks • Scotland – AHP Advisor on mental health to the Scottish Government, COTSS-Mental Health Scottish sub group, AHP Federation Scotland • Northern Ireland –Primary Care and Mental Health MDT conference with the DHSSPSNI

  10. Networks • Star Wards groovy 1960s conference • Stand to Reason conference

  11. Consultations to support you • Meetings as part of inter professional work with Ministers Ivan Lewis and Phil Hope • MIND policy group • Wales – Welsh Assembly Goverment discussions about a Mental Health Measure

  12. Consultations • Northern Ireland Delivering the Bamford Vision Psychological services Personality Disorder Mental Health and mental capacity legislation

  13. Conclusion • What’s working for you? • How can you work for us? • Genevieve.Smyth@cot.co.uk

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