Westcountry Case Management

Jo Jones

DipCOT

Career History

Jo qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1990 from Oxford. She has worked exclusively with adults and adolescents with traumatic brain injury since 1993 and has experience as an Expert Witness in BI for both claimants and defendants and as single joint expert. She has worked both as an independent. practitioner & within an NHS Head Injury Therapy Unit and a Spinal Injury Unit. She has worked as a case manager for Westcountry Case Management since 2005 and currently manages a number of clients within the community.

Current Work

Jo continues to work as an Occupational Therapy Private Practitioner and Case Manager. She has a strong understanding of the long term consequences of brain injury and has worked with many of her clients for several years. Her main area of clinical expertise is implementing rehabilitation packages in the community and assisting with carer training and supervision. She has particular interest in cognitive dysfunction but has experience of a broad range of abilities within brain injury.

Key skills

• Established Occupational Therapy service for Head Injury Therapy Unit
• Over 16 years specialist hands-on experience of Traumatic Brain Injury
• Medico Legal Issues and giving evidence in Court. Preparation of medico-legal reports
• Broad understanding of the long-term consequences of brain injury
• Implementing community based rehabilitation programmes
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Preparation of activity based risk assessments
• Goal orientated approach to treatment
• Co-ordination of complex care packages
• Ability to work independently or as part of inter-disciplinary team
• Extensive experience of working with professionals at a variety of different levels and from different backgrounds
• Extensive experience of training and supervising carers
• Effective communicator
• Personable yet professional with sense of humour

Professional Affiliations & Additional Qualifications

• Diploma from The College of Occupational Therapy
• The College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section - Independent Practice
• British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM)
• The College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section - Neurological Practice
• British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT) - BT0217567