Specialisms
- Complex neurological conditions (including stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Motor Neurone Disease, peripheral neuropathy).
- Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).
- Physical disabilities (including hip and knee replacements and multiple fractures).
- Lower limb amputations.
- Pain.
- Cancer.
- Terminal illnesses and palliative care.
- Associated cognitive impairment and mild brain injury.
- Associated mental health.
- Associated visual or hearing impairment.
Clinical Currency Statement
As at March 2024, I am engaged in the role of Advanced Occupational Therapist for Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for an average of 121.5 hours per month.
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Specific Injuries Experience
Emily is experienced in assessing and treating individuals with a range of physical and cognitive difficulties resulting from progressive medical conditions, neurological conditions and traumatic injuries.
Emily will provide ongoing support and equipment provision by assessing the home environment alongside the client’s needs. Emily is responsible for managing their ongoing therapy input, as well as assessing for and providing moving and handling equipment, recommendations for care, equipment including wheelchair provision and referring for housing adaptations. Emily works closely with the client’s family and carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
As an Advanced Occupational Therapist, Emily works with a high proportion of individuals who have a neurological impairment either as a result of a traumatic event or through acquired brain injury (Stroke, MS, MND, FND and Parkinson’s along with other neurological conditions). This commonly results in associated cognitive deficits and mental health complications, alongside other multiple heath conditions such as obesity, diabetes, depression, anxiety and dementia. Emily is aware of the importance of considering all of these factors when co-ordinating a person’s care needs.
Many of these patients have long term and degenerative conditions. Emily offers palliative care to patients with conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease, brain tumours and cancer.
Emily also works with many individuals with complex orthopaedic injuries, including multiple fractures, joint replacements and pre-existing or new lower limb amputations.
She is confident in her experience of supporting clients with mental health concerns, visual impairment and hearing loss, in addition to their primary injury/condition.
Employment Profile
Emily currently works as an Advanced Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead based both within a rehabilitation unit and in the community. She provides a high standard of occupational therapy service for a large and varied clinical caseload of patients suffering from acute medical or orthopaedic conditions, requiring short interventions and intermediate care. Other patients will have longer term conditions and need multiple episodes of care. Emily also offers palliative care to patients with conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease and cancer. Through managing this complex caseload, Emily has developed specialised and effective patient assessment skills and is able to quickly build a rapport with patients and carers, gaining consent to develop and deliver individualised treatment programs. Previously she worked in an acute setting carrying out discharge planning, equipment provision and assessments for neurological and orthopaedic patients.
Prior to this, Emily lived and worked in Sweden for 10 years and speaks Swedish fluently. Initially she worked on orthopaedic and stroke wards before working within the community with both children and adults with mild to severe learning disabilities. Her duties included giving support and advice to the individual, their families and carers as well as selecting, prescribing and fitting equipment (cognitive, communication and daily living). Latterly she worked on a stroke and general medicine ward in a leading CARF-accredited (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) specialist rehabilitation hospital. Clients were admitted for an intensive period of rehabilitation with a multidisciplinary team. Her duties included assessing and identifying the client’s areas of difficulty, followed by planning and implementing the relevant treatment and assessing treatment outcomes. Emily liaised between the hospital and social services with regards to the planning of appropriate and safe patient discharge.
Qualifications and Membership
- Occupational Therapy BSc (Hons), Oxford Brookes University, final placement (14 weeks) in Lund, Sweden (1996-2000).
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT).
Career History
Present
Care Expert Witness
Jacqueline Webb & Co Limited
2023-Present
Advanced Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead, Community Rehabilitation
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead
2008-2023
Specialist Occupational Therapist, Community Rehabilitation
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead
2008
Occupational Therapist
Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath
2004-2008
Maternity Leave
2004
Occupational Therapist
Department of Health and Social Care, Eslöv, Sweden
2003-2004
Occupational Therapist
Rehabcentrum Lund-Orup, Sweden
2001-2002
Occupational Therapist
Department of Health and Social Care, Eslöv, Sweden
2000-2001
Occupational Therapist
Orthopaedic and Stroke Wards, Ystad Hospital, Ystad, Sweden