Clinical Lead Paediatric Physiotherapist

• Mar 2022 - Present

Lead Physiotherapist

• Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

Lead Physiotherapist

• Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist

• Feb 2022 - Present

Lead Physiotherapist

• Dec 2019 - Feb 2022

• Senior Physiotherapist Greater London Based Paediatric Therapy Clinics • Providing ongoing Neurodevelopmental Therapy Training and Mentoring for all Junior and Senior staff members • Provide 1:1 therapeutic input to children with a variety of developmental disorders. Current case load’s age range from 1 month to 12 years of age. Conditions include ASD, AHDH, DCD, CP, Various Syndromes, PDD, Sensory Processing Disorder to name a few. • Special Interest and depth of experience in Infant development • Working as team leader within a multidisciplinary team, especially in more complex clinical cases • Running Online courses for parents on Typical Development - how to promote it in infants and how to recognise if professional intervention is needed • Telehealth sessions for children in other countries or unable to attend clinic due to Covid restrictions

Senior Physiotherapist

• Jan 2018 - Dec 2019

• Working within primary phase from Y2 to Y6 (age range 6-10 years) appointed to initially set up the facilities in the school to support all SEN pupils including the design & equipping of a multi-sensory Snoezelen Room, an occupational therapy/physiotherapy gym & an outdoor therapeutic playground • Provided intense 1:1 therapeutic input to small caseloads of children with more complex needs • Provided small group sessions (max 4 in a group) for consolidation of motor skills to children with less complex needs • Time in the classroom supporting teachers, completing observations & ensuring that the environment for each pupil was optimised according to their motor and sensory needs • Part of the multidisciplinary team that devised EHCP for pupils, developing, reviewing plans & treatment as required. Ranged across mild to complex learning problems, dyspraxia, hypotonia, cerebral palsy & sensory modulation difficulties and motor delays • Inset CPD for teachers, specifically designing talks & information sessions across a wide range of topics as well as arranging for external professionals to deliver sessions • Extensive collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams OT, speech & language therapists, educational psychologists, remedial therapists on a weekly case conference basis • Regular communication with parents, providing updates, concerns etc with the focus on supporting both the pupil & the parents o Generating Therapy Progress Reports o Devised & roll out of additional learning/homework-based programmes with pupils during school holidays in order to retain learning/support momentum o Providing regular, on-going video-based communication with parents, evidencing progress etc o As a confident public speaker regularly invited parents to attend talks & seminars in order support them further • Ensuring all cases/files were thorough, updated & compiled to legislative standards with a focus on confidentially & GDPR, also mentored junior physiotherapists & teaching staff

Physiotherapist

• Jan 2005 - Dec 2018

Working part-time at both schools – very similar remit to the above school (King David Ariel) • Predominantly across the primary phase, however as these were all through schools, some support was also with early secondary phase pupils (4 – 12 years age range), with dedicated SEN/Inclusion space provided • Pupils had less severe motor development delays with a wider caseload of pupils with ADHD, ASD, DCD etc • Extensive multi-disciplinary approach with a focus on integrating & embedding therapeutic strategies into the DNA of the schools

Senior Physiotherapist

• Jun 1997 - Dec 2004

• Founded & opened The Children’s Therapy Centre, a multi-disciplinary centre offering NDT Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, an onsite Psychologist & Chiropractor o The centre supported children from 3 months – 20 years in age o Provided sessions for children with development delay, cerebral palsy, various syndrome & genetic disorders, low muscle tone & coordinating disorders • Set all company protocols, IT solutions, workflows to ensure the effective administration management required, with a focus on confidentiality, legislative compliance & requirements o Carried out regular self-audits ensuring governance was optimised & adapting practice protocols to ensure the most favourable outcomes for patients, recorded & retained case files digitally & on hard copy • Engaged with the clinical education of students, mentoring, supervising & supporting them to achieve their own career, academic & personal goals • Set up & ran several CPD training courses ranging a variety of topics including assessment, diagnosis, clinical reasoning, treatment etc • Whilst running own practice also worked closed worked with 2 main clients – Wits Language & Hearing Unit & St Vincents School for the Deaf o Caseloads included motor development delays mostly relating to syndromes or DCD (Developmental Coordination Disorder), provided teacher training sessions & lectures o Ensured time was spent in the class too to ensure optimised learning with the right environment • Lectured on 1 module for an Antenatal Course supporting the appointed midwife, mainly relating to typical development & how to facilitate the correct sequence for baby development

Physiotherapist

• Oct 1992 - Feb 1994

• New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton - Junior Physiotherapist o Completing pre & post-surgical paediatrics, ICU, acute medical rotation • Mines Benefit Hospital - Physiotherapist o Working in a very diverse, economically deprived area o Providing orthopaedic support, neurological rehabilitation & ICU rotation • New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton - Junior Physiotherapist o Completing pre & post-surgical paediatrics, ICU, acute medical rotation • Mines Benefit Hospital - Physiotherapist o Working in a very diverse, economically deprived area o Providing orthopaedic support, neurological rehabilitation & ICU rotation