Chislehurst Neurological Rehabilitation Centre
Neurological Rehabilitation Service in Southeast London
At Chislehurst Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, we have a strong focus on therapy, care and quality of life. We offer specialist post-acute rehabilitation, as well as management of long-term neurological conditions. We’re committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy, empowered enabling them to live the best life possible.
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Capacity up to 15
Neuro-rehab
All genders
Southeast London
Specialist post-acute neurological rehabilitation to improve people's lives.
At our new Chislehurst Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, we provide specialist post-acute rehabilitation, as well as management of long-term neurological conditions to adults over the age of 18. We aim to develop person-centred, evidence-based rehabilitation care plans to maximise independence and recovery.
We offer slow stream rehabilitation providing the opportunity for residents to continue their rehabilitation through an adjusted intensity programme tailored to their specific needs. This flexibility accommodates resident’s current needs and strives towards achieving their rehab goals.
We look to build on resident’s progress with each resident having access to the interdisciplinary team including Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. Support is also provided by experienced rehabilitation and therapy assistants.
Our team works closely with the individual and their family members along with liaising with general practitioners, social work professionals and solicitors or case managers to set goals around their physical progress, functional abilities, future independence, leisure and work activities and communication.
Our wonderful team understand that a holistic approach is necessary to ensure that those in our care are safe, happy, and healthy. We promote and fulfil the company values of being caring, honest, pro-active, and empowering for those we support.
We support those with, but are not limited to:
- Brain injury
- Stroke
- Progressive neurological conditions
- Huntington’s Disease
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Cognitive rehabilitation
- Longer term complex care
We are able to accept external placements as well as step-down or interim placements from Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, our level 1 and 2 provision service in London.
To make a referral, please email referrals@activecaregroup.co.uk
or contact your regional Business Development Manager.
15 bedrooms
We have capacity for up to 15 residents where we care and support them in their continued recovery.
En-suite bathrooms
All bedrooms come with en-suite bathrooms with showers giving residents as much privacy as possible.
Therapy rooms
We have a fully equipped therapy room and a therapy kitchen to aid in rehabilitation.
Communal living areas
Our communal living spaces allow residents to interact and spend time together in a community environment.
Gym
We have a specially equipped gymnasium area for residents to work on functional rehabilitation goals.
Close to local amenities
Chislehurst is situated close to local amenities with good transport links allowing residents easy access to the community.
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Meet the Team
Paula Gribben
Paula qualified as an occupational therapist in 2000 from Glasgow Caledonian University, working in NHS, local authority, and voluntary sectors until joining Murdostoun in 2006.
Paula has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for the majority of her career. She has undertaken further specialist academic and clinical training in the field neurorehabilitation and assessment.
At present, Paula is the Head of Therapy at Murdostoun. Paula is an active member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Specialty Section in neurological practice and is the chair of the West of Scotland forum. Paula is the secretary for the Scottish Head Injury Forum. Paula is also registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Catherine McEwan
Kate started as a staff nurse in the brain injury rehabilitation unit at Murdostoun in 2000. She was then promoted to team leader in 2005, and left the brain injury unit in 2010 to go to a new brain injury unit in Springburn.
Kate returned to Murdostoun in 2013 as senior staff nurse. After two years, she became unit manager. She stayed in the neurodisability care centre for six years in total, then moved to the brain injury unit in 2019 as senior staff nurse.
Kate has always worked in brain injury rehabilitation as she finds it a very rewarding job.
Janet Froggo
Janet has worked as a speech and language therapist at the Murdostoun Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre periodically since 1990, having most recently returned in 2021.
She qualified as a speech and language therapist in Manchester in 1980. She worked in a variety of speech and language therapy posts before joining the company, then known as Scotcare Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre in 1990. This is where she began to develop her experience and specialism in the field of acquired brain injury.
In 2000, she left the organisation in order to set up and manage the West Lothian Community Brain Injury Service as part of NHS Lothian, where she remained for 11 years. She took early retirement and moved to Italy in 2011 but returned to Scotland the following year and again began part-time work as a speech and language therapist at Murdostoun, while also working on an independent basis for case management services and for Neural Pathways. Janet retired again in 2018 and moved to Cheshire, only to return in 2021 to recommence her speech and language therapy role at Murdostoun.
Suzanne Moss
For the first 10 years of her nursing career, Suzanne worked as a staff nurse then a senior staff nurse within the acute neurosurgical admissions ward. Here Suzanne expanded her knowledge and experience of neurosurgery and neurology, while learning leadership and management skills and completing credited modules in neurosciences for health and working with people experiencing mental health crisis.
In 2021, Suzanne joined Active Care Group as the Head of Nursing for Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre. Suzanne was thrilled to secure this position as it gave her more responsibility and accountability in the speciality of nursing she loves. In 2022, Suzanne became Hospital Director for Frenchay. Suzanne strives to ensure people have the highest level of service, care and outcomes, through collaboratively working with internal and external stakeholders. Suzanne is passionate about continually developing the service which is patient centred with solid foundations of what matters the most to patients, their families, and their lived experiences.
Claire Bassett
Claire is the lead physiotherapist at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre. After qualifying with her physiotherapy degree in 2007, and working in different settings, Claire quickly realised her passion was in neuro rehab and has subsequently worked in that area for the last 15 years. Claire’s dedication for this patient group developed through her love of creative problem solving, team working and being a key part of a patient’s rehab journey.
Claire is a supportive and proactive leader. She engages her team to strive for the best possible outcomes, promoting a holistic and patient centred approach.
Over the last 10 years working at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Claire has developed highly specialist skills in neurological rehabilitation including complex neurological assessment, excellent clinical reasoning skills based on current evidence base, spasticity management, splinting/ serial casting, complex postural management, spinal cord injury management, hydrotherapy with neurological patients, kinesio taping for neurological patients, trache management and weaning, complex discharge planning, and working with patients in disorders of consciousness.
Claire is a very experienced moving and handling trainer and is one of the therapy representatives in the health and safety meetings.
Jo Heath
Jo qualified as an occupational therapist in 2002. She started working at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre in 2004 and very quickly found her passion for working with this patient group.
During her 20 years at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Jo has developed highly specialist knowledge and skills in neurorehabilitation and has continuously challenged herself to ensure she is a well-rounded holistic practitioner. She is a SMART accredited Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (PDOC) assessor, a positive behaviour support coach, and is skilled in complex posture, seating, splinting, cognitive rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation, spasticity management, cognitive rehabilitation and visual rehabilitation. Jo has been instrumental in developing the discharge processes within the service and has created links with stakeholders from across the region to support this process.
Jo has contributed to the significant expansion and development of the specialist rehabilitation services delivered to the patients at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre. In her role as lead occupational therapist and more recently as Head of Therapies, Jo constantly strives to achieve a gold standard service and has instilled her passion for complex rehabilitation within the team. Jo has a special interest in healthcare leadership and innovation, which has led her to undertake postgraduate studies in this area. She has enjoyed sharing her knowledge and skills in this area with the therapy team to develop the next generation of healthcare leaders.
Dr Alana Tooze
Dr Tooze has always worked in neuropsychology with a particular focus on rehabilitation and the Mental Capacity Act. She completed her PhD in Birmingham, examining the cognitive effects of hormonal changes and radiotherapy treatment in patients treated for pituitary adenoma. Dr Tooze then trained in clinical psychology in Southampton before returning to Bristol to work at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre. She then expanded her knowledge of the post brain injury rehabilitation pathway working in the Gloucestershire brain injury team, which covers the acute hospital wards through to community work.
Dr Tooze left this team in 2018 to lead a small neuropsychology team at the Sussex rehabilitation centre, a level 2a neurorehabilitation unit in Haywards Heath near Gatwick. In 2022, Dr Tooze moved to a temporary position at the Homerton level 1 regional neurological rehabilitation unit in London, and the acute stroke unit. This was a great opportunity to see how another level 1 neurorehabilitation unit undertakes patient care and rehabilitation, before Dr Tooze moved back here to Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre in January 2023 to lead the neuropsychology team.
Dr SM Javaid
Dr SM Javaid transitioned from Locum Consultant to a Consultant in neurorehabilitation at the Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre in April 2022. Prior to this appointment, he had worked as a Locum Consultant in spinal injuries and neurorehabilitation in Salisbury and Inverness respectively.
He brings with him 18 years of experience in rehabilitation medicine, having previously worked in the UK, New Zealand and Australia at various settings across both metropolitan and regional areas. He has worked in general rehabilitation, brain injuries rehabilitation, spinal injuries rehabilitation, rheumatology and amputation rehabilitation in both training and middle grade posts in rehabilitation medicine in the UK and Australasia.
Dr. Javaid feels privileged to belong to a community of medical leaders at the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management who demonstrate, and advocate for excellence in medical leadership, cross-team collaborations, and achieving improvements in organisational culture and innovation.
Rebecca Whitehead
Becky started in January 2022 as Deputy Matron at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre. Her career started as a healthcare assistant at Frenchay in 2008, while completing her degree in adult nursing. Once she completed her degree, she went straight to work on an acute ward specialising in neurosurgery, looking after neuro high dependency patients. Becky continued to develop from staff nurse to senior staff nurse in 2013. In 2016, Becky was successfully recruited into a stroke nurse practitioner role, followed by a spinal specialist nurse which enhanced her skills and knowledge in these specialist areas. Becky’s heart was always with neurosurgical and neurosciences patients, which led her back to ward nursing.
Katie Hanlon
After leaving school Katie worked for an insurance company. After deciding on her career path, Katie qualified as a registered adult nurse in 2009 having studied at UWE Bristol: University of the West of England.
Katie worked in neurosurgery as soon as she qualified, first at the old Frenchay Hospital site, before moving to the new site at Southmead Hospital. After working for some years as a senior staff nurse, during the covid-19 pandemic Katie undertook an opportunity to run the acute neurosurgical admissions ward as senior sister. After three and a half years, Katie joined Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre as Deputy Matron.
Emma Wright
Emma joined in August 2022 as Matron at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre. Her career started as a nursing auxiliary in a Cottage Hospital. She qualified with her degree in nursing in 1999 and went to work on a ward specialising in neurosurgery. Neuro is where her passion lies, and she continued to develop from staff nurse, senior sister and clinical matron. She brings her experience and knowledge to Frenchay, forging new relationships, bringing along and sharing her NHS experience.
Rebecca Lawson
Rebecca started working within Health and Social Care in 2009 aged 18. Initially, she worked for several years within a support worker and care assistant capacity with a wide range of service users including people with a learning disability, autism, mental health diagnoses, physical disabilities, dementia, and older people.
In 2019, Rebecca graduated university and qualified as a Registered Mental Health Nurse. She then quickly progressed to working within management and has previously managed an Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit and a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient service.
Over the years, Rebecca has developed a passion for working with autistic people and their families, which resulted in her undertaking a master’s degree in Critical Autism Studies.
Rebecca is enthusiastic about driving forward service quality to ensure the people we support are provided with optimum care and opportunities that will improve their overall quality of life.
Kerry George
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Commitment to Quality
At Chislehurst Neurological rehabilitation Centre we have aligned and agreed our strategic goals to define what we want our organisation to achieve. This means we have also aligned them with the five domains of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection standards to ensure we provide the very best care possible to all our residents.
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15 Selby Close, Chislehurst, London BR7 5RU
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Tel: 02087 703312
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