Rachel Martin is a HCPC registered occupational therapist with a background in mental health and learning disabilities. Rachel joined the University in 1993, she is a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has a Masters in Sociology.
Rachel has expertise in the impact of good work on health and wellbeing and the facilitation of employment or other meaningful occupation, within routine health care practice. This work has led to an interest in how social prescribing can support a person’s engagement in meaningful occupation and to the formation of the Salford Integrated Social Prescribing Hub. She is working with Cormac and Sarah on the development of a tool to support social prescription practice.