Occupational Health Assessment Form
For CTE trainees undertaking PGCE (all routes)
Your answers to this questionnaire will be confidential to Occupational Health and the CTE admissions Team and the department.
The purpose of this assessment is to help determine if you have any health problems, disabilities or learning differences which may affect your capability to fulfil the criteria required for teaching and teacher training. It involves consideration of the potential for duties to affect any existing health condition or disability you may have as well as such conditions on your ability to undertake teacher training and teaching duties safely and effectively.
Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers have a responsibility to ensure that trainees have the health and physical capacity to teach and will not put children and young people at risk of harm. The activities that a teacher must be able to perform are set out in the Education (Health Standards) (England) Regulations 2003.
Before health clearance is given you may be contacted by Occupational Health for further information on your condition or disability and you may need to be seen by an Occupational Health Advisor and/or Physician.
For the majority of students, a simple Fit statement will be provided to the CTE team. Where a more detailed assessment has been completed by Occupational Health, in addition to the fitness statement, Occupational Health will write a report which will be sent with your consent to relevant CTE tutors. The report will provide where appropriate any recommendations, adjustments or assistance Occupational Health advise to enable you to meet the criteria for teaching and teacher training.
Please ensure you disclose any and all conditions on this form, to allow us time to put into place any required reasonable adjustments where appropriate.
Failure to disclose any conditions may have implications on your placement if the need for adjustment becomes apparent after the admissions process.
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