Neurological rehabilitation service in Northamptonshire

Tina has worked in the care sector for 28 years. She started off working in the NHS as a healthcare assistant and completed her nurse training.

Tina realised early on that she wanted to go into management within healthcare. She has been a part of opening three acquired brain injury units, all in the Bedfordshire area. She has also worked for dementia services, learning disability services, and care of the elderly.

Tina has worked in a number of quality monitoring roles too. For example, she worked in the care standards monitoring team at Bedford Borough Council. This involved completing audit and quality monitoring checks.

Tina is a first aid instructor so she can provide the emergency first aid training course and the first aid at work training course. She also has an education training qualification.

Suzi is a highly-specialist occupational therapist and the midlands team lead for Neural Pathways. Since graduating in 1999, Suzi has worked in various NHS and private sector neurological rehabilitation settings. She is passionate about neurological rehabilitation and takes a positive approach towards helping individuals achieve their goals. Suzi has worked with clients with a variety of neurological conditions including stroke, spinal cord injury, anoxic and traumatic brain injury, prolonged disorders of consciousness, locked-in syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Guillain–Barré syndrome and Parkinson’s disease.

Suzi has experience in working with clients with cognitive, behavioural, and perceptual difficulties.

Sandra has been a speech and language therapist since 2006 and has worked across the country for the NHS in private healthcare. She has extensive experience in neurorehabilitation. Sandra supports adults with communication and swallow disorders to achieve their functional and wellbeing goals.

Sandra is also the director of Speech Therapy Works, and she has previously been a speech therapy manager.