Maria Lekan-Ashimi

• Completing holistic neurological assessments of patients who have a stroke within 6 months.
• Educated patients about their stroke diagnosis, stroke risk factors and self-management of stroke rehab using evidence based practises.
• Provide community stroke rehab using stroke rehab principles including, disability management, vocational rehabilitation and spasticity management.p
• Supervised physiotherapy assistants, ensuring correct application of treatment plans.
• Collaborating with other clinicians in the multidisciplinary team to provide treatment plans including occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, psychologists, nurses and stroke consultants.
• Conducted thorough assessments to diagnose and treat musculoskeletal conditions.
• Stayed up-to-date on latest research findings in physiotherapy field, guaranteeing effective use of modern techniques.
• Educate patients and carers on facing and overcoming disability challenges.
• Participating in quality improvement project about physical activity promotion in stroke patient-cohort by scoping the current compentencies of the multidisciplinary team.

● Completes complex and holistic physiotherapy assessment which informs personalised treatment plans for patients with musculoskeletal, neurological and respiratory health needs.

● Maintaining a caseload of 10-12 patients with complex health needs.

● Delivering treatment and management plans to patients at home, in hospital or at clinics to restore their mobility and function

● Using a range of specialised interventions including manual therapy, exercise therapy and adjuncts such as
hydrotherapy or electrotherapy to where clinically indicated.

● Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team,
mainstream services and care network to ensure care plan is delivered.

● Assessment and provision of specialist equipment to meet persoanlised goals.

● Providing consultation to mainstream services to support them working with people with determination or other mental impairments.

● Completing reports for distribution to care networks or other health and social services

● Clinical educator role for physiotherapy students.

● Supervision of physiotherapy assistant who covers 3 boroughs and 2 rebound therapy sites. This includes their professional and career development.
● Represent physiotherapy service and/or service user at multi-disciplinary meetings including chairing of meetings.
● Contribute to the planning and development of service, monitoring productivity/efficiency and evaluating service provision.
● Project leader for pilot project based on delivering abdominal massage for constipation service to improve quality of care. Leading in other audits to ensure service is meeting national standards.

● Role as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion which involves networking in wider Trust, implementing Trust strategies at a local level and supporting colleagues with resolving and escalating EDI concerns.

● Provide physiotherapy service on weekends. This includes ICU, acute respiratory (including tracheostomy care), respiratory on call, orthopaedic rehabilitation and acute stroke assessment and treatment of patients. Caseload includes 15-20 patients a day.
● Maintain professional standards via continuous professional development and completion of mandatory training.

● Assessment and treatment of people who have undergone acute trauma or critical illness to promote their recovery

● Completed paediatric, acute medicine (including COVID-19),
and critical care rotations, respiratory on call and critical care weekend working for adults, demonstrating proficiency in acute respiratory care.

● Paediatric rotation included acute respiratory (respiratory ward, cystic
fibrosis clinic, paediatric intensive care unit and paediatric high
dependency unit) orthopaedic, liver wards and emergency care.

● Completed neurological rehabilitation for level 2b patients. This included thorough and complex neuro assessments, and providing successful specialist neurological intervention and education to patients who had sustained severe brain injuries. This includes spasticity management using electrotherapy such as NMES.

● Working in acute community care post hospital discharge to assessed patient's home environments to complete risk assessments, provide community rehabilitation and/or equipment to regain pre-morbid function and make recommendations through detailed reports to social care as required.

● Provided assessments and ward-based rehabilitation to adult patients with varied illnesses and conditions which included joint working with other members of large multidisciplinary teams with added goal of relieving hospital pressures.
● Completed complex discharges and making appropriate onward referrals.
● Represented physiotherapy in multidisciplinary meetings, including consultants and clinical specialist nurses to discuss patient care.

referrals.
● Provided detailed and comprehensive recommendations/reports on
assessment findings/treatments plans for members of the
multidisciplinary team, patients and/or carers.

● Participated and led in service improvement and clinical research to improve patient care/experience

● Managed respiratory patients intensive care, high dependency
units and ward settings. This included delivering pre-operative
care to abdominal surgery patients.
● Respiratory on call for adult and paediatric patients
● Respiratory and orthopaedic weekend working
● Residential weekend working providing mobility assessments
and coordinating complex discharges
● Rehabilitation of trauma and elective orthopaedic patients
including teaching at joint school and leading knee replacement
rehab classes
● Delegated and provided teaching to assistants and supporting
students
● Making onward referrals to community rehabilitation services
● Completed outpatient musculoskeletal rotation including leading on osteoarthritis classes and weekly hydrotherapy.

● Use of manual and electrotherapies to reduce pain and restore function to patients