Birmingham
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01608 682522
Karen has been a case manager since 2019 and she is currently working with a diverse range of clients including paediatric complex care, brain injured, and spinal cord injured teenagers and adults. She provides support to the client, their family, support worker team and treating professionals aiming to achieve the best quality of life possible for the client.
This work is underpinned by over 30 years of experience in practice as an occupational therapist working with children and adults with physical and learning disabilities. Across Local Authority (Adult Social Care), and the National Health Service (NHS) Acute, Rehabilitation and Community settings; including 12 years in a dual therapist and leadership role. Consistently advocating and ensuring best practice, and service development involving close collaboration with Third Sector Providers and the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Karen has experience of providing:
Karen ensures her skills and knowledge remains current through a variety of continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities and can provide a methodical analysis of a situation and research appropriate treatments, interventions, and solutions.
Karen has developed an effective case manager style and she supervises paediatric complex care support workers, recruits treating professionals and chairs multi-disciplinary team meetings for her clients.
She has experience of planning, implementing, and auditing services, as well as recruitment, training, and supervision for Qualified and Support staff, obtained from her previous OT roles as a senior NHS Team Lead / Managerial role for 12 years, collaborating with Divisional Managers, CCG and Third Sector Providers alongside a therapeutic case load, and has experience in, and led bespoke service development or redesign.
Karen is married with two children. She is an enthusiastic proactive Case Manager, who maintains very high professional and personal standards. Karen likes a challenge; she has worked professionally abroad; enjoys working with people from all cultural groups and always applies a personcentred approach to her work. Karen is confident, outgoing and enjoys working within inter-professional and diverse community settings.
If you have any questions, or would like to reach out to a member of our team regarding the help we can offer you, please contact us today.
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