Specialisms
- Complex physical disability.
- Visual impairment and loss.
- Burns and plastics including scar management for adults and children.
- Hand therapy.
- Upper limb injuries including amputations and joint replacements replacements
- Lower limb injuries including amputations and joint replacements replacements
- Single and multi-level spinal surgery.
- Arthritis, including Rheumatoid and Juvenile Idiopathic.
- Bone infection and vascular impairments.
- Internal injuries and bladder and bowel disorders.
- Pain including Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome.
- Neurological conditions including stroke, MS, MND, Parkinson’s and dementia.
- Cancer, including palliative care.
- Associated mild brain injury including post-concussion syndrome.
Clinical Currency Statement
As at June 2020, I am engaged in the role of Case Manager for Rehab Without Walls for an average of 84 hours per month. I also work as a private Occupational Therapist for an average of 8 hours per month.
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Employment Profile
Pam currently works as an OT and case manager, primarily with clients with life changing physical and neurological conditions requiring medical and surgical intervention, in addition to rehabilitation. Although she works autonomously, her caseload is highly varied and involves managing and working within multi-disciplinary care and therapy teams, to ensure the best outcomes for her clients.
She has extensive experience in assessing individual needs, working collaboratively with clients and their carer’s, to maximise and maintain their potential in both the short and longer term. This includes co-ordinating and implementing bespoke packages of care, including therapy services within statutory and private services, to ensure creative and cost-effective solutions.
Given the chronic and degenerative nature of many of the clients Pam works with, she has gained extensive knowledge of joint protection and pacing principles, fatigue management and workplace ergonomic assessments which encompass predictions for future requirements in line with disease progression. She has also developed an in-depth understanding of the potential debilitating psychological implications of chronic and degenerative conditions, and the impact this may have on an individual’s day to day functioning.
Since qualifying as an Occupational Therapist in 2001, Pam has worked in both in-patient and out-patient settings and have gained comprehensive experience, specialist skills and knowledge across a wide range of clinical areas. This has included hand therapy, burns and plastics, scar management for adults and children, neurological intensive care, orthopaedics, rheumatology, chronic pain and general medical conditions. Her roles and focus have been to assess individual needs and to design treatment and rehab packages that would achieve patients’ short- and long-term goals, whilst providing recommendations for the necessary care and equipment that would facilitate independence and maximise functional ability.
Qualifications and Membership
- BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy, Oxford Brookes University (2001).
- British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT).
- British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT) Level 1 (2003).
- Member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Specialist seating assessments (2016).
- Royal College Specialist Section Medico-Legal Forum Committee member (2016/2017)
- Best Interest Assessor (2017).
- British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM).
Career History
Present
Care Expert
Jacqueline Webb & Company Ltd
2019-Present
Case Manager
Rehab Without Walls
2018-Present
Associate Lecturer
Oxford Brookes University
2017-Present
Independent Occupational Therapist
The OT Practice
2016-2018
Senior Occupational Therapist, Social Services
Oxfordshire County Council
2005-2016
Senior Occupational Therapist, Outreach and Rheumatology
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
2002-2005
Senior Occupational Therapist, Plastics
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust
2001-2002
Basic Grade Occupational Therapist, Hand Therapy and Plastics
Wexham Park Hospital
Publications
Pam has lectured or presented on eleven occasions and also has one article published.
Presentations and Lectures:
- Oxford Brookes University – associate lecturer, delivering the upper limb module (2017,2018).
- Oxford Brookes University – associate lecturer, Mental Capacity Act (2017, 2018, 2019).
- Oxford Brookes University – associate lecturer – anatomy (2019).
- Oxford Brookes University – Interviewing Occupational Therapy Students (2017,2018).
- Presentation on ‘Hand Function’ – In-service training programme, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (2016).
- Presentation on ‘The Charcot Ankle’ – training programme to regional junior doctors (2015).
- Formal presentation, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society on ‘Joint Protection Principles’ (NRAS) (2012).
- Occupational Therapy for Rheumatology Patients’ – training programme presentation to regional junior doctors (2010).
- Rheumatology Workshops’ for Oxford Brookes University Occupational Therapy BSc (Hons) course (2010).
- Presentation on ‘Anatomy of the Hand’ to course candidates – accredited British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT) Level 1 course.
Publication:
- Article on Chronic Fatigue (2019).