Specialisms
- Hands.
- Upper and lower limb injury including amputations.
- Burns and plastics.
- Orthopaedic injuries.
- Chronic pain (including CRPS and phantom limb pain).
- Psychological issues including PTSD, anxiety and depression.
- Associated bladder and bowel complications.
- Pain associated fatigue.
- Cancer (pre-existing, or in conjunction with the above).
Clinical Currency Statement
As at September 2020, I am engaged in the role of Independent Case Manager and Case Manager for Integrated Case Management for an average of 110 hours per month. I also work as an Independent Occupational Therapist for an average of 35 hours per month.
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Specific Injuries Experience
Alongside her expert witness work, Christine spends the equivalent of 3 days a week as a case manager. She regularly completes Immediate Needs Assessments (INAs) and is case manager for a high number of clients. The majority of Christine’s clients have legal claims in process which have not yet reached settlement and it is part of Christine’s role to work with them throughout the litigation process.
Christine’s clients have sustained multi trauma injuries, including hand, orthopaedic and plastics-based injuries, and upper and lower limb amputations. Christine arranges and monitors psychological care for clients with PTSD, anxiety and depression. She manages and supervises small care packages and directly employed carer for clients. She arranges and monitors psychological and physical rehabilitation, assists in the management, planning and implementation of housing adaptations, and assists clients in finding suitable alternate accommodation.
Christine manages client accounts and provides rehabilitation update reports for her clients.
In addition to the case management, Christine works as an Independent Occupational Therapist for private clients, providing and monitoring upper limb treatment programmes, housing assessments, and return to work programmes.
Employment Profile
Christine is an experienced Occupational Therapist, having qualified in 1998, and currently works as a specialist independent therapist, case manager, and expert witness.
As a clinician, she has worked in major trauma units providing acute occupational therapy and hand therapy care for patients with upper and lower limb injuries, multi trauma injuries and amputations. Christine continued to provide occupational therapy assessments and interventions as an independent occupational therapist within the private sector, predominantly in the client’s homes, to provide therapy programmes, equipment and adaptations to enable clients to reach their functional optimum.
As a case manager, she works with clients with upper and lower limb injuries, multi trauma and musculoskeletal injuries and amputations managing and monitoring their rehabilitation needs from an acute stage through to case settlement and beyond.
Christine manages her client’s rehabilitation funds, liaises with their solicitor’s and insurance companies providing clear and concise written communication for their legal claims. She can clearly and effectively communicate and is able to build rapport easily with clients, carers and health professionals. In her case management, Christine takes a person-centred approach and considers all the client’s needs – physical, psychological, social and environmental. She uses the best evidence-based information to enable individuals to live as independently as they choose.
Christine has developed clinical expertise in hand therapy treatments for a large range of patients, analysing activity to give expert opinion and recommendations for compensatory and rehabilitation solutions to problems. She is a member of BAHT (British Association of Hand Therapists).
Qualifications and Membership
- BHSc Occupational Therapy , Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand (1998).
- PG Cert (Hand Therapy), Derby University, UK (2004).
- British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT).
- Royal College of Occupational Therapists – Specialist Section – Independent Practice (RCOTSS-IP).
- Royal College of Occupational Therapist (RCOT).
- Case Management Society UK (CMSUK).
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Career History
Present
Care Expert
Jacqueline Webb & Co Ltd
2019-Present
Independent Case Manager
2019-Present
Case Manager
360 Case Management
2013-Present
Independent Occupational Therapy Practitioner
2013-2019
Case Manager
Bush & Company Rehabilitation
2004-2014
Advanced Occupational Therapist in Hand Therapy
Queen Victoria NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead
2011
Clinical Advisor
Derby University
2002-2004
Clinical Lead Occupational therapist in Burns and Plastics
Queen Victoria NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead
2001-2002
Locum Senior Occupational Therapist
Angela Shaw and Associates
1998-2001
Rotational Occupational Therapist
Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand