Specialisms
- Traumatic and acquired brain injury.
- Cerebral Palsy.
- Neuromuscular conditions such as Muscular Dystrophy, including end-of-life care.
- Developmental delay.
- Learning disabilities (including autism spectrum disorder).
- Challenging behaviours.
- Associated movement disorders.
- Associated orthopaedic conditions including post-operative management.
- Associated postural management and pressure care issues.
- Associated visual loss.
- Moving and handling.
- Loss of services in fatal accident claims.
Clinical Currency Statement
As at January 2024, I am engaged in the role of Case Manager for Independent Living Solutions for an average of 95 hours per month.
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Specific Injuries Experience
Sarah works as a catastrophic Case Manager, supporting children, young people and adults with acquired and traumatic brain injury and polytrauma. Sarah works collaboratively with clients, their families and care and therapy teams to ensure the successful management of goals which are client-focussed and meaningful. Sarah has experience of both privately employed and agency employed packages of care as well as co-ordinating goal-orientated therapeutic rehabilitation programmes.
Sarah has prior substantial experience as a specialist Paediatric Neuro-Disability Physiotherapist within a Community NHS setting, working with children and young adults aged 0-19 with a wide range of neuro-developmental and long-term conditions. Sarah has a special interest in transition and developed pathways to support young people transitioning from paediatric to adult care. She has significant and varied experience in assessing, treating, managing, and co-ordinating the needs of children and young adults with a wide range of complex presentations. Diagnoses that Sarah has worked with include Cerebral Palsy (GMFCS levels 1-5), acquired brain injury, neuro-muscular conditions, as well as children with profound and multiple learning disabilities and developmental delay. Sarah also has experience of the post-operative rehabilitation of children following Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR), Botox, serial-casting, soft tissue surgery and bony surgery. This is alongside optimising management of movement disorders and developing effective postural management programmes that can be practically implemented by families, carers, and within school/environments.
Employment Profile
Sarah has recently moved into a Case Manager role. She brings a wealth of specialist clinical skills and knowledge that will enable her to support and empower her clients to work towards greater independence and quality of life.
Sarah’s physiotherapy experience has involved working with children and young people from age 0-19 years and across a range of services including an early year’s service, mainstream schools and special schools. She is adept in supporting clients and their families in accessing education, home, leisure and community activities from diagnosis and early intervention, through to adolescence and into early adulthood. Many of the children who Sarah has worked with present with a range of co-morbidities including profound, multiple and complex disability, communication difficulties, learning difficulties, visual and hearing impairment, epilepsy, feeding/swallowing difficulties, and pressure care issues.
Sarah joined Jacqueline Webb & Co as an Expert Witness in 2021. Her clinical experience and specialist knowledge gives her a compassionate and empathic approach to writing Loss of Services reports detailing the past services provided by the deceased to their dependants and those they would have provided in the future. Sarah has attended numerous Case Conferences and the Bond Solon Courtroom Skills Familiarisation.
Qualifications and Membership
- BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy 2:1, University West of England, Bristol (2004).
- MSc Integrated Paediatric Practice Module, Sheffield Hallam University (2009).
- Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP).
- Association of Paediatric Physiotherapists (APCP).
Career History
Present
Care Expert Witness
Jacqueline Webb & Co Limited
2023-Present
Case Manager
Independent Living Solutions
2010-2023
Band 7 Advanced Paediatric Physiotherapist
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
2008-2010
Band 6 Community Paediatric Physiotherapist
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2004-2007
Band 5/6 Physiotherapy rotational post
North Bristol NHS Trust