Please ensure that you engage with occupational health clearance and DBS processes required by the Admissions Team. Failure to complete this by the time you register on the course may result in you not being able to proceed with your studies. Please also ensure you engage with the Placement Planning Form FoMHSC 2024/2025.
Welcome and Induction, Uniform and Occupational Health
Welcome and Induction
Please ensure you view and engage with your Welcome Schedule.
Please note that timings given in your Welcome Schedule for uniform measure and issue events and occupational health vaccinations are indicative timings only. Please check below for the exact time of your appointment, which will be dependent on your surname (A-Z).
Visit us in the Health Hub to get your questions answered and have a soft drink and biscuit on us!
In addition to your course welcome activities, you can also join us at our Health Hub, timings below, where we can help you with any questions you may have or direct you to the most appropriate service.
You are now on your own exciting journey, but you are also part of our community where we support each other to grow and flourish at university and beyond. Drop in and stay connected, meet new friends and your peers. Meet and chat to our placements team, academic course administration team and existing students.
Drop in on the 1st floor of the Rowan Williams Court building in RWf39 during any of the times below:
- Thursday 19 September, 9am to 4pm
- Friday 20 September, 9am to 4pm
Follow us on our CCCU_Health Instagram account to keep up to date with what is happening for students.
Occupational Health Clearance & Uniform
As part of starting your studies here at Canterbury Christ Church University, you will need to attend an occupational health vaccination appointment and a uniform measure & issue appointment during Welcome Week.
If you were an S23 Health Foundation Year student and you have passed and are proceeding onto your Year 1 with Operating Department Practice you are not required to attend the occupational health vaccination appointment, as you already have your occupational health clearance. However, please attend the Operating Department Practice uniform appointment detailed below, thank you.
Occupational Health Clearance
Students need to obtain occupational health clearance to ensure they are fit to practice. You will be prompted via your ‘MyRecord’ to complete a clearance check and directed to an online health questionnaire.
Once you have submitted your questionnaire, you are required to attend an occupational health vaccination appointment appropriate to your placement requirements. We use an external company called OH Works for this. Ahead of your appointment, please gather any vaccination documentation (paper or electronic) from your GP or workplace and take to your occupational health appointment.
Please click here to access the schedule and determine your appointment time.
For enquiries about your occupational health clearance please email cccustudents@ohworks.co.uk or phone 01227 286288.
Uniform
At your measure & issue appointment, you will be welcomed by the CCCU Uniform Team and our uniform suppliers, Alexandra. Once your sizing requirements have been determined, you will be able to collect your uniform which is expected to last the duration of your course. Your uniform is provided to you free of charge.
Please click here to access the schedule and determine your appointment time.
Important information regarding your uniform can be found on the uniform policy.
Placement Badge
On placement you will be required to wear a placement badge, which will have your course title and preferred first name. This placement badge is provided to you free of charge. You will be supplied with your placement badge once you have started your course. Please note, this is not your student ID card.
You will receive an email from the Uniform Team regarding important tasks that you will need to action prior to your Welcome Week. If you have any questions about your uniform or placement badge, please email health.uniform@canterbury.ac.uk.
More about the course
Our Course has some really unique selling points that help us stand out from others, including:
The integration of the ‘Surgical First Assistant’ practice skills which are over and above the baseline competencies required for eligibility for registration with the HCPC.
Our Human Science module grants a unique opportunity to utilise our Anatomy Learning Centre (ALC), allowing students the privilege to support your anatomy and physiology learning with human cadaveric material.
The inclusion of a Year 3 specific critical care placement which is outside the theatre department and highlights the transferability of skills acquired during your ODP course either in Intensive Care Units or Accident & Emergency.
Interprofessional Learning: Multiple modules undertaken with other Allied Health Professionals (AHP) to gain a wider exposure and experience of other healthcare professional role’s and gain an understanding of how each healthcare professionals role interact with each other to collaboratively support patient care
We are proud to be an inclusive University that supports a diverse community of students. Please note that if you have a disability or would like to learn more about the support that we can offer to students, please visit the Disability and Mental Health website. This is available once you have accepted your offer.
- Your course provides a variety of practical and University-based learning experiences to prepare you to qualify and apply to register. We are eager to support you and enable you to make the most of your studies.
- Operating Department Practice is a dynamic, diverse and evolving profession. As an ODP, you will be working with health care service users in a myriad of situations including alongside Surgeons, Anaesthetists, Midwives, Nurses and Radiographers.
This course has been developed to meet the all professional requirements to enable you to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. You will engage in series of theoretical and practice modules throughout the course and there is an equal split between classroom based learning and practice learning. Further, you will have the opportunity to engage in a variety of placements and surgical specialities including trauma and orthopaedics, general and obstetrics.
