Rob Ellis

🤞🤩 Good luck to our teams at the HSJ Awards @events.hsj.co.uk finals tonight!
Our #StaffMentalHealthService and #MusicTherapy service were chosen for outstanding work in two categories.
Well done to all finalists! 🌟
Have a great evening celebrating #NHS excellence 🥳
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/research-new...

20.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Text on image says: Occupational therapy has helped me to understand how to manage my life and how to cope. They taught me to have some confidence, such as how to look after a house and how to cook. Occupational therapy is an important role to help know these parts so to be independent and enjoy life.

Our occupational therapy team at the Cavell Centre in Peterborough has received this lovely feedback for Thank You Thursday from one of its patients. Well done, everyone 👏

20.03.2025 15:53 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

text on image says: Arinze always does such an amazing job, engaging the patients on the ward in meaningful activity whilst having a positive and can-do attitude. Arinze empowers the patients and is able to make a big impact on the ward environment and the wellbeing of those he supports. Thank you, Arinze!

A big shout-out to Ward Activity Co-ordinator Arinze Anya, who is based at our Cavell Centre in Peterborough, for this lovely feedback. Well done, Arinze! 👏

31.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: Qualitative systematic review of international literature Trauma has a well-established link with poor health outcomes. Adverse experiences in mental health inpatient settings contribute to such outcomes and …

Sharing our review that suggests traumatic experiences in mental health inpatient settings - and far more insidious than just restrictive interventions - can worsen outcomes. We urge redesign of environment, processes and autonomy to improve care.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

18.12.2024 20:25 — 👍 14    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

👏 these look great, some talent there!

05.12.2024 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NHS staff psychological wellbeing: system-level changes needed System-level changes such as improvements in working conditions are essential in order to improve the psychological wellbeing of NHS staff.

Researchers found that to address the epidemic of mental ill health among HCPs, workers needed:

Targeted MH interventions
Hot food
Rest areas/lockers
Free parking

Essentially staff just need to be valued & treated like human beings.

Rocket science it is not.
evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/system...

28.11.2024 16:59 — 👍 164    🔁 82    💬 15    📌 8

My English degree led to studying OT. I’ve always seen both as involving NARRATIVE. The person’s occupational narrative is our main interest in OT. We’re helping people write the next chapter of their life, through what they do. Stories, meaning, structure, metaphors to live by. #occupationaltherapy

19.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

Thanks Callum! Very kind, am obviously biased but it's definitely a great area of practice for us to make a difference

19.11.2024 21:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was fortunate enough to be asked to chat about the amazing work of our Therapy Team this year for OT Week. #OccupationalTherapy

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEr8...

18.11.2024 21:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hello all 👋, mental health Occupational Therapist here, passionate about improvement for all who use adult inpatient mental health and learning disability services. Interested in identity & mental health, occupation as therapy, greenspaces, physical activity, creativity and all the rest!

18.11.2024 21:40 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me please!

18.11.2024 20:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0