Steph Andrews

• Supporting complex caseload of children in the community with neurodisability and other long term conditions.
• Responsible for clinical development and enhancing practice in order to improve outcomes for children and their families.
• Enhancing team competency levels and offering clinical supervision for colleagues on complex patient cases.
• Continually seeking CPD and opportunities to develop my skills and practice, keeping up to date with current evidence and best practice
• Developed strong relationships with children and their families, working on goals that are meaningful
• Improved patient care by collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in education, health and social care
• Developing new care pathways
• OT CPIPs National Representative, working on roll-out of OT CPIPs for England

• Setting up a new neuro step down unit for Kings at Orpington hospital
• Design and implementation of the new OT service (adult neurosurgical and neuro-oncology patients)
• Maternity cover (9 months) in Neonatal Intensive Care at Kings providing developmental care for babies

.

• Neuro rotation across adult neurosurgery, neuromedicine, neurorehabilitation, major trauma and paediatric neurosurgery and paediatric neurorehabilitation
• Paediatric rotations working on acute paediatric wards, PICU and acute inpatient neurorehabilitation beds.
• Working with children and their families to provide OT intervention during their acutely unwell period, or at the time of their initial injury.
• Patient stays ranging from a few days to long term hospitalisation of over a year
• Working closely with medical team and MDT
• Planning safe and supportive discharge from hospital to community services

• Inpatient Neurorehabilitation unit for young adults
• Patient stay of 3-5 months for MDT therapy to maximise recovery and functional skills following brain injury
• Preparing for safe and supportive discharge home and to community services
• working on holistic goals, including accessing the community, self care, cooking, return to work, leisure