Occupational Therapy Services

Occupational therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and wellbeing through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational Therapists achieve this outcome by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement (World Federation of Occupational Therapists, 2012).

What are occupations?

Occupations refer to the everyday activities that people do as individuals, in families and with communities to occupy time and bring meaning and purpose to life. Occupations include things people need to, want to and are expected to do (World Federation of Occupational Therapists, 2016).

The service follows the below eligibility criteria:​

• Individuals with a disability;
• Individuals between the age of 16 and 60 years;
• Individuals receiving specialised occupational therapy services, MAY benefit from occupational therapy at Aġenzija Sapport. In such situations, liaison with the active occupational therapist will occur to ensure continuation;
• Individuals with a predominant condition requiring rehabilitative, acute or mental health intervention will NOT be eligible for occupational therapy from Aġenzija Sapport to prevent duplication of services;
• Individuals and/or main caregivers need to be knowledgeable of the referral, motivated and be able to identify functional goals within community settings.
• Individuals who have difficulties in participating in daily occupations, that they wish or need to do, may benefit from the Occupational Therapy service. This may include any activity that is meaningful for the individual, such as taking care of oneself or others, taking care of one’s household, accessing transportation, doing a leisure activity or socialising.

The Intake Team receives and processes all intake requests by prospective service users, families, and other professionals who ask for any service within the Agency. All intakes are meticulously assessed by the Intake professionals, who will identify which services the individual can benefit from dependent on the needs, interests, and wishes of the individual.

Service users who are already benefiting from other services within the Agency, can contact the Occupational Therapy Services directly via email at alliedhealth.sapport@gov.mt or on the Agency’s Helpline on Freephone Servizz.gov 153 (ext. 05), or (+356) 2256 8000 during the Agency’s opening hours and ask to speak with an Occupational Therapist. For those not currently receiving services, they will need to reach out to the Intake Team for guidance on the services available to them.

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday: between 08:00 – 16:00
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: Not available