Clare Ford

Part time 22.5 hours

• Team Lead for Burns and Plastic Surgery
• Responsible for delivering highly specialised assessment, and treatment of plastic surgery using advanced clinical reasoning skills for patients based in the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery
• Organise and coordinate the running of the physiotherapy service to Burns and Plastic Surgery and Renal team

• Clinical lead for plastic surgery
• Team lead for Burns and Plastic Surgery
• Clinical Manager for Morriston Hospital Physiotherapy Service
• Responsibilities included managing rotational staff, recruitment, governance reporting and leading on PADR
• Clinical responsibility for plastic surgery and managing the team including hand therapy service and burns

• Physiotherapy Team Lead for Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery based in Morriston Hospital.
• Clinical lead in plastic surgery working with a mixture of trauma, orthoplastics, hand therapy and a wide range of elective plastic surgery patients.
• Developed and streamlined the service
• Use of specialist skills to teach and supervise junior staff, Cardiff physiotherapy students.
• presentation at national conferences
• Working across a managed clinical network across South and Mid Wales

• Responsible for delivering highly specialised assessment, and treatment of plastic surgery using advanced clinical reasoning skills for patients based in the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery
• Gained specialist knowledge through consolidated clinical experience, CPD and post graduate courses and training
• Responsible for the supervision of junior and assistant staff

Consulting physiotherapist at Belize City Hospital. Responsible for developing an embryonic physiotherapy service to include in and out-patient physiotherapy and the training of a newly qualified Belizean national

Initiation of a community based rehabilitation programme throughout the country of Belize. Including setting up therapy centres, training a local counterpart and local volunteers.

Included developmental screening and working with displaced families from Central American countries

Temporary position

Various short term locum positions in a variety of healthcare and rehab settings

Four monthly rotations across acute specialties and MSK out patients