MSc Advanced Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy

Are you an occupational therapist wishing to develop your skills and knowledge in critical thinking? This pathway will help you to improve people’s health and well-being by implementing innovative, evidence-based practice in a range of practice settings. You will be able to develop your skills and knowledge in research and scholarly activity around the core principles of occupational therapy. This pathway enables you to explore innovative occupational therapy and occupational science in depth.

Key features

• Study on a programme with a long, esteemed history and join the many hundreds of successful graduates from all over the world. You will learn to apply up-to-date knowledge of research and theory to enhance your creativity and flexibility and develop the academic skills needed to work effectively in modern health and social care settings.
• Join an enthusiastic team of occupational therapists and undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students who are pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge on occupational science and occupational therapy.
• Learn within our supportive multi-professional and inter-agency environments on a programme delivered by experts in a setting where innovative thinking regarding advanced professional development is put into practice.
• Train and practice your professional healthcare skills in an inspiring purpose-built environment, InterCity Place. 
• Become an evidence-based practitioner, equipped to manage and lead in busy and constantly changing settings and able to reflect on and utilise a range of evidence to support your professional occupational therapy practice.
• Tailor your learning to your own workplace through module assignments and the occupational therapy practice: supported study module.
• Choose from one of three different exit awards to suit your own needs – step off the pathway with a postgraduate certificate (three modules) or postgraduate diploma (six modules) if you wish, or you can continue on to a master’s degree where you will carry out your own research project with the support of experienced occupational therapy lecturers and researchers.
• Complete the programme in one year with the full-time study option or balance work and caring commitments by studying part time over a maximum of six years. The full-time route is suitable for international students, who will be supported to choose optional modules with non-clinical assignments.

Please note that when you enrol on this programme, you always enrol to study the master degree but we offer three exit awards: PgCert, PgDip and MSc.