PGCE occupational health

I accepted my place for my PGCE course back in October, I was sent the Occupational Health form a few weeks ago, which I have filled out.

I did disclose, that I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder and take medication for it, however I have had years of CBT therapy and I feel confident with progressing on the course but feel it would be useful for me to have access to well being services if I find my self struggling on the course.

I've since been contacted for a telephone assessment, I am getting concerned now.
I have resigned from my Job, and have already started the preparation essays the for the course. All my family and friends are excited for me.

Is there anything I should be concerned for or is it just formality?

Just formality. But tbh disclosing it can be a double edged sword. When you start a job like teaching a lot of the culture is that you just need to get on with it and honestly I don’t want to scare you but placements are literally random, you could end up in a grand school with the best kids or you could end up somewhere that’ll actually have you on your knees with behaviour and in these situations you really do just have to get on with it to essentially pass.

I know everyone says it’s hard but honestly it really is. So yeah it’s good to have access to the well-being services at uni but they’ll only do so much. Being someone with anxiety myself I declared it and it made no odds and now I wouldn’t bother telling an employer

I accepted my place for my PGCE course back in October, I was sent the Occupational Health form a few weeks ago, which I have filled out.

I did disclose, that I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder and take medication for it, however I have had years of CBT therapy and I feel confident with progressing on the course but feel it would be useful for me to have access to well being services if I find my self struggling on the course.

I've since been contacted for a telephone assessment, I am getting concerned now.
I have resigned from my Job, and have already started the preparation essays the for the course. All my family and friends are excited for me.

Is there anything I should be concerned for or is it just formality?

It's very late in the day for them to be doing your OH assessment.

Are you sure about that? It seems pretty much in-line with the OH interviews at the university I trained with. I can’t remember the exact dates, but we had started the academic side of the course and not yet started our first placements, so it must have been around this time of year.

Do you think, perhaps, that OH departments triage their assessments and first contact people who may be unable to proceed on their course, leaving people who can proceed but would benefit from signposting to appropriate services for later?

At what stage of application/enrolment have you seen students rejected post OH assessment?

And again, I do think you need to be mindful of distinguishing between what you think should be the case and what is.

Do you think, perhaps, that OH departments triage their assessments and first contact people who may be unable to proceed on their course, leaving people who can proceed but would benefit from signposting to appropriate services for later?

At what stage of application/enrolment have you seen students rejected post OH assessment?

And again, I do think you need to be mindful of distinguishing between what you think should be the case and what is.

I had the assessment and all good to proceed! But thank you all for the advice!