Opinions of occupational therapists on the positioning of vocational rehabilitation services in Gauteng Public Healthcare

Biljon, Hester M van; Casteljien, Daleen; Toit, Sanetta Henrietta Johanna du; Soulsby, Lynn

doi:10.17159/2310-3833/2016/v46n1a10

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“…The hope is that eventually the tool can be used in vocational rehabilitation services to help therapists do quality management and provide information for planning and policy making. Tool dissemination could also raise an awareness of the scope of vocational rehabilitation services that occupational therapists can offer as so many practices are doing only the assessment aspect of vocational rehabilitation 48 .…”

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An action research approach to profile an occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation service in public health care

Biljon

Ther

Casteleijn

et al. 2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther

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An effective occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation service assists the transition between injury, illness, impairment, disability and return to optimal functional ability in a work sphere. It bridges the gap between health institutions, which are usually the point of entry for an injured or sick worker, and the labour market 4 . South Africa's Gauteng province has a high demand for vocational rehabilitation services. It is the hub of the country's commerce and industry. Home to 30% of South Africa's (SA) total population, its age distribution shows that 73% of this population is of working age 5 . In South Africa, 68% of the population depend entirely on public healthcare 6 . The effect of no or poor vocational rehabilitaKey words: occupational therapy, vocational rehabilitation services, public healthcare, action research, profile tool ABSTRACT Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2310-3833/2015/v45n3/a8 South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2015 45 (3): 40-47. ISSN On-line 2310-3833 An Action Research Approach to Profile an Occupational Therapy Vocational Rehabilitation Service in Public Healthcare tion in public healthcare is obvious in a commerce and industry driven province such as Gauteng, with a high prevalence of injury at work, crime and motor vehicle related injury, the impact of Aids and pressure to return to work as quickly and effectively as possible.In the National Health Amendment Bill debate on the 14 August 2012 Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa's Minister of Health said: "The deteriorating quality of healthcare in our public hospitals has been a thorn in the flesh of our country for quite some time" 7 . Occupational therapy services within public healthcare are included in this and services that require specialised knowledge and experience, like vocational rehabilitation are most affected. A Vocational Rehabilitation Task Team (VRTT) was convened, in 2010 in Gauteng with the aim of resuscitating the province's vocational rehabilitation services. The VRTT is a group of occupational therapists, working in Gauteng's public healthcare sector and concerned with occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation services in the province. In 2013 the first author, a PhD candidate from the University of the Witwatersrand, joined the group with the research aim of transforming occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation services in Gauteng through action research.In keeping with the cyclical nature of action research (i.e. ob- Hester van Biljon, B Occ Ther (UFS), M Occ Ther (UFS)

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An action research approach to profile an occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation service in public health care

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Ther

Casteleijn

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S. Afr. j. occup. ther

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“…A literature search of South African studies yielded initiatives related to more informal types of employment, including self-employment, and finding or starting stipendiary occupation as an alternative to seeking paid employment 18,28 . Facilitating self-employment was not considered as part of their professional competencies by experts in vocational rehabilitation training for occupational therapists in South Africa, as suggested by Buys in 2015 18 .…”

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A survey of occupational therapists' involvement in facilitating self-employment for people with disabilities

Monareng¹,

Franzsen²,

Biljon³

2018

S. Afr. j. occup. ther.

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“…The importance of accurate and skilled reporting of functional capacity evaluations are highlighted in several articles which also uses the ethical element of report writing 1,3,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] . Escorpizo et al 15 indicated that a successful vocational rehabilitation programme relies on the interrelationship between several elements and they note that effective communication between the employer and the healthcare practitioner is one such element.…”

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Developing a vocational rehabilitation report writing protocol - a collaborative action research process

Biljon

Casteleijn

Toit

2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther

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A vocational rehabilitation interest group of occupational therapists in the publicin some hospitals newly appointed and inexperienced occupational therapists refuse to write vocational rehabilitation reports, leaving it to their more experienced colleagues and therefore perpetuating the challenges and complications mentioned above.The VRTT identified report writing as a priority practice problem to be addressed as a section of their bi-monthly meetings. The aim of this study was to develop an easily understandable, user friendly vocational rehabilitation report writing protocol with standardised report templates for the type of reports most commonly written in public healthcare. The reports identified to be most commonly written in Gauteng's public healthcare and for which templates were needed were: Functional capacity evaluation (FCE) reports; Policy and Procedure on Incapacity Leave and Ill-health Retirement for public service employee's (PILIR) reports; Disability Grant (DG) reports; Vocational Rehabilitation Screening Tool reports and medico-legal reports. The function of the report writing protocol would therefore be to: set a standard for vocational rehabilitation report writing; to standardise the format of a report; provide practical guidelines for inexperienced occupational therapists for writing vocational rehabilitation reports and thereby to enable therapists to spend less clinical time writing reports.This article forms part of a PhD study, the purpose of which is to transform vocational rehabilitational services in Gauteng's public health care through action research. The article aims to describe Doi: http://dx

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Opinions of occupational therapists on the positioning of vocational rehabilitation services in Gauteng Public Healthcare

Abstract: Introduction: A collaborative effort to transform occupational therapist's vocational rehabilitation services in Gauteng

Cited by 12 publications

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An action research approach to profile an occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation service in public health care

An action research approach to profile an occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation service in public health care

A survey of occupational therapists' involvement in facilitating self-employment for people with disabilities

Developing a vocational rehabilitation report writing protocol - a collaborative action research process

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