Pam C

Specialisms

Complex physical disabilities, including:

• Burns and plastic scar management for adults and children.
• Hand therapy.
• Single and multi-level spinal surgery.
• Upper limb surgery including shoulder and elbow replacements.
• Hip and knee replacements.
• Foot surgery including ankle replacements.
• Lower limb amputations.
• Rheumatoid arthritis.
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
• Internal Injuries.
  
  

Profile

Since qualifying as an Occupational Therapist in 2001, I have worked in both in and out-patient settings, gaining comprehensive experiences and specialist skills and knowledge across a wide range of clinical areas, including hand therapy, burns and plastics, scar management for adults and children, neurological intensive care, orthopaedics, rheumatology, chronic pain and general medical conditions.  My role and focus and has been to assess individual needs and to design a treatment package that would achieve patients’ goals, whilst providing recommendations for the necessary care and equipment that would facilitate independence and maximise functional ability.

I am currently employed as a Senior Occupational Therapist by the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.  I work with adults with acute and chronic rheumatological and orthopaedic conditions that require both medical and surgical treatment.  I work autonomously and have a highly varied and complex case load including assessment and treatment of single and multi-level spinal surgery, upper limb surgery including shoulder and elbow replacements, hip and knee replacements, foot surgery including ankle replacements, lower limb amputations.

I am responsible for assessing individual needs and have extensive experience in assessing functional ability.  This allows me to provide accurate recommendations for equipment and care provision on both a long and short-term basis. In November 2014, I attended Bond Solon's Witness Familiarisation Course.

I also work with a wide variety of rheumatological conditions in an out-patient setting, providing hand assessment and treatment including splinting, joint protection, pacing, fatigue management, relaxation, work place ergonomic assessments – which also encompass predictions for future requirements in line with disease progression.

Qualifications and Membership

• BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy Oxford Brookes University (2001).
• British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT) Level 1 (2003).
• British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT).
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• COTSS Medico-Legal Forum Committee member (2016).

Career History

2012-date
Expert Witness
Jacqueline Webb & Co 

2005-date
Senior Occupational Therapist - Out-reach 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

Teaching and Lecturing 

• 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 (2007).

Home Base

Oxford