Specialisms
- Complex neurological conditions (such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, peripheral neuropathy).
- Palliative care (such as brain tumours and cancer).
- Physical disability including orthopaedic injuries.
- Multiple fractures.
- Lower limb amputations.
- Associated mental health problems.
Clinical Currency Statement
As at June 2020, I am engaged in the role of Specialist Occupational Therapist for the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for an average of 65 hours per month.
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Specific Injuries Experience
Emily has extensive experience of assessing and treating individuals with a range of physical and cognitive difficulties resulting from traumatic injuries, surgery and progressive medical conditions and neurological conditions.
Emily currently works within a hospital-based rehabilitation team, working with clients with physical disabilities across a wide age range both as outpatients or in the community. Emily’s involvement with these clients is through providing ongoing support and equipment provision by assessing the home environment and the client’s physical needs. Emily is responsible for managing their ongoing therapy input, as well as assessing for and providing moving and handling equipment, recommendations for 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.
Employment Profile
Emily is currently working as a Specialist Occupational Therapist based both within a rehabilitation unit in the community. She provides a high standard of occupational therapy service for a large and varied clinical caseload of patients who may be 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, she 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 has 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 individuals, their families and carers as well as selecting, prescribing and fitting equipment (cognitive, communication and daily living). Latterly Emily 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. She liaised between the hospital and social services with regards to the planning of appropriate and safe patient discharge.
Qualifications and Membership
- BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy, Oxford Brookes University (2000).
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT).
Career History
Present
Care Expert
Jacqueline Webb & Co Ltd
2008-Present
Specialist Occupational Therapist, Rehabilitation Unit
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2008
Bank 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
2001-2002
Occupational Therapist
Orthopaedic and Stroke Wards, Ystad Hospital, Ystad, Sweden