ELFT Occupational Therapy Services

Welcome to the Occupational Therapy Service, providing services to Bedfordshire and Luton, the city of London, Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets.

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Thank you so much for following along and reading the amazing stories form the OT’s in our service on why they love OT, proudest moment and visions for the future of our wonderful profession! #OTWeek2025 #OccupationalTherapy @rcot

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It's #OTWeek2025! This year, we are going to be spotlighting the fantastic OT's in the ELFT OT service and celebrate everything we love about our profession! We will be asking staff the reasons they became an OT, their proudest moments, and their vision for the future! 💚

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Rachael, one of our CMHT OT’s, shared her vision for OT and identified an area where our OT skills could reshape services and improve care, when asked ’If you could design the future of Occupational Therapy, what would it look like?’ #OTWeek2025 #OccupationalTherapy

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OT week celebrations from our wonderful inpatient team! 💚🍰 #OTWeek2025 #OccupationalTherapy @rcot

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Some of the OT week celebrations taking place this week in our community based teams! Lots of promoting the role and power of OT! 💚#OTWeek2025 #occupationaltherapy @rcot

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Tori, one of our OTs in CMHT recalled a particular highlight of her time working as an OT when asked ‘What’s the one moment in your OT journey that made you think — “This is why I do what I do”? #OTWeek2025 #OccupationalTherapy

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Katie, one of our Perinatal OT’s, shared her passion for OT and wanting to follow in her mum’s footsteps when we asked her ‘What first inspired you to become (or consider becoming) an Occupational Therapist?’ #OTWeek2025 #OccupationalTherapy

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Lots of Diwali Crafts taking place throughout the service to celebrate the start of Diwali! 🕯️🎇 #Diwali2025

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As today is World Mental Health day and the theme is 'prioritising mental health at work', we wanted to highlight our Summer Forum where we facilitated a 'well being retreat' for staff! This day aimed to support staff's well being and support team bonding 💚#WorldMentalHealthDay

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This week we held our annual 'Summer forum' where we come together as an OT service for team building. This year's theme was 'wellbeing retreat' complete with a nature reflection walk, rock painting, canvas painting and pet therapy!

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The Autumn crafts have come out in Social Inclusion group in Bedford! 🍂🍁#Artsandcrafts #OccupationalTherapy #Activity #Autumn

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Some amazing photo's from our Macmillan coffee morning which took place last week in our Inpatient services! The event was co-facilitated with service users who prepared some delicious cakes and lovely art work!💚📷🍰#MacmillanCoffeeMorning #SupportMacmillan #occupationaltherapy

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Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. 💛
Every life matters. Together, we can break the stigma, raise awareness, and remind others they are not alone.
👉 Reach out.
👉 Listen.
👉 Support.
#WSPD2025 #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #MindBLMK #YouAreNotAlone

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Wind Chimes and Bird Houses made in this weeks Social Inclusion group at Bedford CMHT! #socialinclusion #crafts #occupationaltherapy