Claire Webb

Type of therapist: Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy - Sensory Integration Assessment, Initial Support Consultation - OT, Occupational Therapy - SI Therapy, Clinical Supervision

Location: Gloucestershire

Skills

Developmental delay Sensory processing Sensory modulation Sensory discrimination Emotional regulation Balance and coordination Postural control Gross motor skills Praxis Bilateral integration and sequencing Fine motor skills Eye-hand coordination Attention Handwriting Self care Organisational skills Visual perceptual skills Confidence

Qualifications

  • Occupational Therapy Bachelor of Science (Hons), University of the West of England (2008)
  • Postgraduate Diploma Sensory Integration, Sheffield Hallam University (2024)
  • HCPC registered

CV

  • Highly Specialist Children’s and Young People’s Occupational Therapist, Certified Sensory Integration Therapist
  • Clinical lead with team management responsibilities within the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Children’s Occupational Therapy service (2014 to 2022)
  • Acting Operational Lead and Head of Profession Children’s Occupational Therapy Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (2019 to 2020)
  • Specialist Children’s Occupational Therapist Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (2012 to 2014)
  • Children’s Occupational Therapist Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (2010 to 2012)
  • Occupational Therapist Gloucestershire Care Services Adult community care (2008 to 2010)
  • Occupational Therapy Technician Children’s Social care team Gloucestershire Care Services Children’s Occupational Therapy (2002 to 2008)
  • Twenty years’ experience of working in the public sector including social care and the NHS primarily within children and young people services
  • Specialising in working with children and young people with autistic spectrum disorder, as well as other neurodiverse conditions and learning disabilities
  • Experienced in carrying out standardised and specialist assessments around sensory processing, learning difficulties as well as physical disabilities.
  • Skilled in the development of individualised tailored programmes of intervention as well as the provision of advice and training within approaches and techniques to parent/carers, educational staff as well as other children's professionals.
  • Expert in working across all the environments that a child or young person accesses so that the intervention recommended is tailored to their specific needs and adapted in a way that will provide the right support in all areas of their daily routines.
  • Specialised in environmental assessments related to home adaptations including those funded by Disabled Facilities Grants
  • Expertise within manual handling assessment and provision of advice, 24 hour postural management assessment and specialist equipment provision
  • Experienced in the delivery of training to staff groups including those working in special schools and mainstream schools, advisory teaching service, pre school education and care settings, allied health professionals, public health nurses and health visitors.
  • Continued professional development to enable the delivery of up-to-date evidence based effective assessments and interventions.

Interesting / fun facts

  • I skippered a yacht in a flotilla around the north Ionian sea
  • I am a new cold water swimmer
  • I am a keen walker and I would like to walk the Camino de Santiago one day

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