Brain injury can create many barriers in returning to an old work role or finding a meaningful new work opportunity. Research has shown that difficulty in communicating with others, interpersonal relationships, managing office politics and social rules at work is often related with negative work outcomes following brain injury. I have worked in vocational rehabilitation for the last 12 years and focused specifically on supporting work relationships.
I am very happy to work with survivors, their employers and colleagues in the workplace to support these difficult aspects of work that are often hard to discuss openly.
I provide vocational rehabilitation and work support as part of an interdisciplinary team, alongside Mandy Salter, Specialist ABI Vocational Occupational Therapist, and Martin Hillier, Disability Employment Consultant. They are both experts in this field and long-term colleagues of mine.
Check out this following article on myths and elephants in the room in vocational rehabilitation, written by the three of us, based on our shared experience of working in vocational rehabilitation together for over a decade:
I am very happy to work with survivors, their employers and colleagues in the workplace to support these difficult aspects of work that are often hard to discuss openly.
I provide vocational rehabilitation and work support as part of an interdisciplinary team, alongside Mandy Salter, Specialist ABI Vocational Occupational Therapist, and Martin Hillier, Disability Employment Consultant. They are both experts in this field and long-term colleagues of mine.
Check out this following article on myths and elephants in the room in vocational rehabilitation, written by the three of us, based on our shared experience of working in vocational rehabilitation together for over a decade:
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Please see our group discussion webinar for Headway on returning to work after brain injury here:
Reasonable Adjustments in the Workplace Sheets
Please click to download this excellent series of visual prompt sheets for reasonable adjustments in the workplace, for different domains of functioning. These resources have been created by the Working Out team at the Community Head Injury Service (Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust), led by my colleague Martin Hillier.
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