Thank you The Churchill Fellowship and Public Health Agency for a life changing opportunity and for the most wonderful colleagues and friends I have met during my time in Aotearoa, NZ and USA. 'He tangata he tangata, he tangata', its all about 'the people the people, the people'.

Occupational Therapy Senior Management Team working hard on a Friday afternoon at our Encompass User Lab! 🤓 19 days to go 🚀 #encompassNI Belfast Trust RCOT Northern Ireland

Fantastic morning spent in Lisburn with the Heads of Occupational Therapy from all five health and social care Trusts. A useful conversation about the support the profession needs to be able to transform lives across Northern Ireland

Delighted to be alongside Niamh Boylan to provide orientation clocks to Sister Cathy Bannister for all cubicles in the Acute Frailty Unit at RVH along with daily newspapers for patients to help reduce delirium.Belfast Trust RCOT Northern Ireland Aisling Durkin Emma Dunn Ursula Kelly

Community OT & OT admin held a joint user lab to learn together how their roles will interface on Encompass. We may not have it all worked out yet but we are committed to supporting each other through the process. Team work! Rebekah Johnston Simey..Bear😎 Dermot Quinn Deirdre Winters

Occupational Therapy Superusers and ASMs ready for Encompass Go Live in RVH this morning. We’ve had a very successful first day! ⁦Dermot Quinn⁩ ⁦Emma Dunn⁩ ⁦Aisling Durkin⁩ ⁦Cathy Jack⁩ ⁦RCOT Northern Ireland⁩

Another Epic team of Occupational Therapists introducing Encompass into the NI Cancer Centre. So proud of all our staff this week, you are amazing! ⁦Dermot Quinn⁩ ⁦Julie Bray⁩ ⁦L Fitz⁩ ⁦Cathy Jack⁩ ⁦RCOT Northern Ireland⁩

New Specialist B6 Post to work within the fabulous Medicine &Surgery Team RVH Aisling Durkin Ursula Kelly L Fitz Suhailah Mohamed RCOT Northern Ireland Gerard Dobbin Emma Dunn Claire Ferguson Clíona McCarney #RCOT Apply below 👇 jobs.hscni.net/Job/34547/bhsc…

Delighted to have attended #TASC24 event today and hear about all the wonderful QI work going on across the 3 workstreams.Especially proud of BHSCT Occupational Therapy hand therapy team and all the AHP projects. @HSCQI Clíona McCarney Dermot Quinn L Fitz Julie Bray

There are currently 2 excellent opportunities to join the Occupational Therapy specialist services team within the BHSCT, see details below. jobs.hscni.net/Job/26064/bhsc… jobs.hscni.net/Job/34111/bhsc… Aisling Durkin Julie Bray Dermot Quinn Gerard Dobbin L Fitz Clíona McCarney RCOT Northern Ireland

The most interesting election fact was learning that Keir Starmer’s wife is an Occupational Therapist and works for the NHS. It caused quite a buzz in work today! Hopefully, he will look favourably on us when handing out future funding! Royal College of Occupational Therapists Dermot Quinn Aisling Durkin Clíona McCarney

Mark your calendars, the Johns Hopkins 8th Annual Hospital Activity and Mobility Conference will take place in April-May 2025! Make sure to follow us to get future updates on the conference: bit.ly/3LxZcPW #patientmobility #hopkinsAMP #icurehab #nurses

Here it is! 🥳 🚨 JOB ADVERT 🚨 🌟 Associate Director of AHPs 🌟 An opportunity to lead, collaborate, innovate and drive improvement for AHPs and AHP services West Herts Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Interested? Click on the link below: ⬇️ westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/recruitment/ap…

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Our Chief Executive has announced her decision to resign from the role. Cathy Jack said: "It has been my privilege to lead the Belfast Trust & I want to pay tribute to all my wonderful colleagues." Read our full statement: bit.ly/3Wmu5Mp

Joint statement from Chief Nursing Officer Maria McIlgorm and Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Michael McBride. Full statement ➡️ health-ni.gov.uk/news/joint-sta…

Great visit today with the Occupational Therapy team at the Acute Regional Neurosciences Unit. Huge challenges with stretched resources, complex pathways and no community neuro team, but a fantastic group changing lives every day 👏🏻👏🏻 #TeamOT Aisling Durkin Dermot Quinn

Band 6 Acute Stroke Post for RVH. Great opportunity to come work in the brilliant stroke team in RVH Emma Dunn Ursula Kelly L Fitz Gerard Dobbin Aisling Durkin Suhailah Mohamed Belfast Trust RCOT Northern Ireland #RCOT Apply 👇 jobs.hscni.net/Job/36370/bhsc…

Oh and dogs just seem to know how to behave around you when you’re on crutches or in pain!🐶🐶

Congratulations to our Occupational Therapy Burns team for being shortlisted in the Service Improvement category of the AHA awards. Good luck to all our staff who have been nominated and shortlisted. @BHSCT Dermot Quinn Clíona McCarney L Fitz