Specialisms
- Brain injury (traumatic and acquired).
- Post concussive disorders.
- Orthopaedic injuries.
- Lower limb amputation.
- Associated pain.
- Associated mental health.
- Functional overlay – emotional issues relating to injury.
Clinical Currency Statement
As at July 2023, I am engaged in the role of Senior Case Manager/ Occupational Therapist for A Chance for Life Ltd for an average of 120 hours per month.
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Specific Injuries Experience
Jenny has over 30 years’ experience in neurological rehabilitation and 24 years’ experience focusing on Brain Injury Case Management. She is an Advanced BABICM practitioner and is highly competent in understanding the impacts of Brain Injury on activities of daily living. Her skillset is focused on ‘walking wounded’ clients and challenging behaviour issues following injury. She also has Case Management experience working with clients in persistent disorders of consciousness (PDOC) and severe physical disability arising from brain injury.
Jenny also has experience of supporting clients who have suffered a combination of trauma injuries, including orthopaedic injury and lower limb amputation. She is confident to take these cases in isolation from TBI injury.
Jenny has significant experience in co-ordinating appropriate care and support for these client groups, either employed directly or via agency and including 24/7 support.
Employment Profile
Jenny graduated in 1991 from the University College of Ripon and York, St John and worked with in-patient orthopaedics, elderly rehabilitation, and the community learning disabilities team at the Harrogate NHS Trust.
She then moved to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust at Daniel Yorath House where she was involved in the development of the OT role within this new specialist rehabilitation unit. Jenny also has experience in supporting those in psychiatric hospital settings. She has a wealth of experience within the field of rehabilitation for people with neurological conditions as both an Occupational Therapist and as a Specialist Brain Injury Case Manager. Jenny is a highly experienced clinician with great passion for the field in which she works.
Since leaving her role in statutory services Jenny has been a Senior Case Manager with A Chance for Life Ltd Case Management. Here she predominantly works with those who have suffered brain injury and those who have cognitive and behavioural issues. She provides supervision and mentor support to new Case Managers as part of this role.
She has provided training on Brain Injury and on the Mental Capacity Act and she has participated in the training of students. She has presented at the National OT Conference on safe working and risk assessment in a forensic setting and was on a question panel regarding accessing funds from statutory services at the CMSUK National Conference.
Jenny has given evidence as a Witness of Fact on more than one occasion and attended Bond Solon’s Courtroom Skills Familiarisation in 2023.
Qualifications and Membership
- Professional Qualifications Diploma in the College of Occupational Therapists (1991).
- College Certificate in Care of the Physically Handicapped Child (Lord Mayor Treloar College) (1988).
- Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) (1993).
- Membership Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Advanced Practitioner Member of British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM).
- Member of Case Management Society UK (CMSUK).
Career History
Present
Care Expert Witness
Jacqueline Webb & Co Ltd
2023-Present
Lead Case Manager/OT (North East and Yorkshire)
A Chance for Life Ltd Case Management
2018-2023
Senior Case Manager/OT (North East and Yorkshire)
A Chance for Life Ltd Case Management
2012-2018
Case Manager/OT
A Chance for Life Ltd Case Management
2001-2012
Case Manager
Cumbria Community ABI Team
2006-2007
Specialist ABI Case Manager (part time secondment in Commissioning Dept)
Cumbria PCT
1997-2012
Programme Manager
Reach Personal Injury Services
2000
Senior Occupational Therapist
Neuro-Rehabilitation Ward, St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford
1999-2000
Senior Occupational Therapist
York House (Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust)
1999
Senior Occupational Therapist
Morecambe Bay ABI Team
1996-1999
Senior Occupational Therapist
Stockton Hall Psychiatric Hospital
1992-1996
Senior Occupational Therapist
Daniel Yorath House (BIRT)
1991-1992
Basic Grade Occupational Therapist
Harrogate NHS Healthcare Trust
1987
Occupational Therapy Volunteer/Carer
Lord Mayor Treloar College