MEMBER WEBINAR: Towards work - Early vocational rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury, multi-trauma orthopaedic injuries or spinal cord injury 

SESSION OVERVIEW

Join us for this free member session that will provide you with valuable training and information to support individuals with return-to-work goals following major traumatic injuries such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), and multi-trauma orthopaedic (MTO) injuries, including limb amputation.  

This event aims to empower occupational therapists with the tools to integrate early vocational rehabilitation (EVR) into their clinical practice. 

By attending this workshop, you will: 

• Gain invaluable insights into the EVR clinical pathway and effective intervention activities tailored for rehabilitation settings. 

• Explore management strategies for workplace-related impairments through real-world case studies that demonstrate the practical application of EVR. 

• Receive actionable tips, checklists, and templates to enhance your practice. 

• Engage in interactive discussions and Q&A sessions with experts in the field. 

This session is underpinned by a comprehensive intervention manual developed as part of a groundbreaking randomized controlled trial, generously funded by the Victorian Transport Accident Commission (TAC). The study highlights that EVR recipients achieve earlier return-to-work outcomes, with notably reduced anxiety and improved mental health among MTO injury groups compared to controls at one-year post-injury. 

A copy of this intervention manual will be sent to you prior to the session to allow you time to familiarise yourself with the content before attending the session.  

Additionally, informed by recent surveys on vocational rehabilitation practices and clinician training needs in traumatic injury rehabilitation, this session ensures relevance and applicability to current clinical challenges. 

As part of ongoing research conducted by Dr Pamela Ross and Yash Bedekar, participants are invited to contribute to pre and post-session evaluations. The evaluations are anonymous and will take under 5 minutes each to complete.  More information on how you can participate in this research will be sent following registration. 

Don't miss this opportunity to advance your clinical expertise and contribute to research in occupational therapy. Join us for this educational event—it's free for members! 

Learning Objectives 

On completion of this webinar, participants will:  

• Understand the principles and clinical pathway of EVR for patients following major traumatic injuries 

• Be familiar with the EVR intervention manual and how included resources can support application of EVR in clinical practice 

• Be able to embed return to work discussions with employers, patients and treating teams in their clinical practice  

• Be able to consider a range of interventions to support work-readiness as part of clinical practice. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This session is suitable for:

OTs and allied health clinicians at all stages of their career 

PRESENTER 

 Dr Pamela Ross

Pamela Ross has worked as an occupational therapist in the area of rehabilitation for over 35 years. She has specialised in vocational rehabilitation and driver assessment and rehabilitation, with specific expertise in traumatic brain injury and multi-trauma.  She has worked in private practice and at Epworth Healthcare for many years where she led the vocational and driver rehabilitation programs. She completed a PhD in 2017 investigating ‘Return to Driving after Traumatic Brain Injury’. In 2016, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate the clinical use of driving simulators in driver assessment and rehabilitation. More recently she has worked as a consultant on various fitness to drive projects with the Department of Transport and is currently the multi-disciplinary theme lead at Monash Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre where she has been chief investigator leading a TAC funded study evaluating the impact of providing early vocational rehabilitation following traumatic injuries.  

 Yash Bedekar 

Yash Bedekar is an occupational therapist who specialises in vocational and neurological rehabilitation and has an active interest in research.  She currently works as a senior clinician at Epworth Healthcare providing vocational rehabilitation following traumatic injuries and with Monash- Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre as a vocational specialist and research assistant (involved in the EVR trial as an intervention therapist at Austin Health and Epworth Healthcare, and as a researcher with the RTW TBI app trial).  Yash is leading the clinician survey study as part of the translation work from our EVR project.  Her clinical experience includes provision of vocational and general rehabilitation in both UK and Australia following stroke, traumatic brain injury, multi-trauma orthopaedic, spinal cord and concussion injuries. She has also worked on stroke and TBI vocational rehabilitation trials in the UK.   

ACCESS

Participants will have access available for 12 weeks from date of purchase.

EVENT DETAILS

DATE:

31st July 2024 (Wednesday)

TIME:

• 12 noon | VIC, NSW, QLD, ACT, TAS | 

• 11:30am | SA, NT | 

• 10:00am | WA |  

This session will run for approximately 2 hours. 

Please login 10 minutes before the scheduled presentation time  

RECORDING:

This webinars will be recorded and available to access following the event in registrant’s account - Dashboard/My Courses and then login to access. 

REGISTRATION FEES:

This is a free member event for Occupational Therapy Australia members. 

Members must be logged in with username and password to register. 

Registrations close 28th July 2024 

VENUE:

This is a 100% virtual event. You will receive an email with details to access the event the day before the scheduled event date.

DISCLAIMER

All information is correct at the time of publication. OTA reserves the right to alter or delete items from the CPD calendar as required, and takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions, and changes.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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CONTACT US

Please email info@otaus.com.au or phone 1300 682 878