Louise Riley

Case Manager – BSc (Hons) OT

Specialisms
Brain injury,
Amputees,
Neurological Conditions,
Poly Trauma,
Orthopaedic Trauma,
Post Operative Rehabilitation,
Long Term Conditions,
Palliative Care and Mental Health

Location
Southwest

Louise has worked in a variety of different settings within the NHS in acute and community rehabilitation, for the last 15 years, and has enhanced skills and competencies in nursing and physiotherapy due to her role as a generic assessor for the early supported discharge team rapid response and Home first.

Louise has sound clinical and rehabilitation knowledge in a variety of clinical presentations from acute to long term and end of life care. Louise provides a holistic and person-centred approach. She assesses and plans individualised rehabilitation programmes for her clients, their family and their carer’s, ensuring that the client is at the forefront of any decision making and holds client advocation as a priority in client centred care.

Louise has extensive experience of managing a team of professional and support staff, having managed teams of qualified and unqualified staff. Providing them with support and guidance ensuring that the clients’ needs and safety requirements are met at all times.

Louise believes strongly in muti disciplinary and effective communication between professionals in order to achieve person focused care and realistic and achievable goals.

Louise works very closely with family and carers providing education and training in order to ensure clients are reaching their full potential. Louise has comprehensive experience in completing person centred holistic assessment, goal setting and treatment plans with outcome measures and goal focused activities.

As an Occupational Therapist Louise has experience of assessing and providing both small and complex pieces of equipment as well as carrying out thorough assessments for significant home adaptations.

Louise has a wealth of experience in providing capacity assessments, best interest meetings, CHC funding requests, advanced care planning and care and needs assessments.

Louise also works as an expert witness providing both face-to-face and remote assessments for loss of service and care reports. She has a good working knowledge of the litigation process, which assists her to manage client’s expectations realistically.

Qualifications and Memberships

• Post BSc (Hons) Occupational therapy – London Southbank University 2010 to 2014
• HCPC registration OT69987
• Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Career History

Integrated Case Management Ltd – present
Case manager

Jacqueline Webb & Co – 2022 to date
2010-date Expert Witness

Inpatient therapist on mixed ward including neuro
2000

Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust March – 2022 to May 2024
Senior occupational therapist/ generic assessor

Central Middlesex NHS Foundation Trust January – 2018 to November 2018
Band 7 occupational therapist for community in reach/ outreach rehabilitation

Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust – Northwick Park Hospital – June 2016 to January 2018
Senior occupational therapist for the early supported discharge/ rapid response team

Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust – June 2015 to June 2016
Senior rotational therapist in MIU and AAU

Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust – June 2014 to June 2015
Band 5 rotational therapist – vascular, respiratory, care of the elderly, ortho, neuro. Covered all wards at weekends and low staffing levels

Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust – May 2008 to June 2014
Occupational therapy support worker care of the elderly rehabilitation and discharge planning and dementia care. Also covered staff shortage and weekend. NVQ Level 3 and 4 in therapies and rehabilitation before completing in-service training at London Southbank university.

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