Specialist occupational therapist working with adults with learning disabilities. Special interest in SI. Views are my own. Shares are not endorsements.
@AmyHird5 Still too much of a medical model in practice! Exhausting being the minority! #AHPs may be 3rd largest workforce in NHS but our individual professions have a very small voice in medic/nursing led services 😔
I feel like I have worked a million hours this week. Very important legal battle managing to get an autistic adult discharged from an unsuitable mental health unit and back into her home. No feeling like it. Gratefully assisted by @SteveBroach - more info to come. #feelgoodfriday
@OTNorthumbria@adelewrightson don't try and manage alone @OTNorthumbria are there for https://t.co/culk90v1om support,use them,depend on them.They're there for you.'Be kind to yourself' is the mantra I learned from one of https://t.co/nCsxMIWMCv is etched in my ♥+🧠.If I was braver,it'd be etched on my skin!
@jcvdelapaz I love this ♥ wish I'd had it in current post - 'specialist' comes with expectations, both personal and those set by others = too much pressure, risk of trauma and burnout! #OccupationalTherapy
Dysregulated=inhibited occupational function.People w learning disabilities+neurodiversity need those around them to co-regulate to=calm+alert state.Only then are domains of self care/productivity/leisure facilitated! #DayInTheLifeOfAnOT#ChooseOT#OccupationalTherapy