Staff Profiles
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 Brain Injury for both claimants and defendants and as single joint expert. She has worked as a private practitioner & within a Head Injury Therapy Unit and a Spinal Injury Unit.
Current Work
Jo continues to work as an Occupational Therapist Private Practitioner. Her main area of 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 12 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
- 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
Professional Affiliations & Additional Qualifications
- Diploma from The College of Occupational Therapy
- The College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section - Independent Practice (formerly OTIP)
- British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM)
- The College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section - Neurological Practice (formerly NANOT)
- British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT) - BT0217567