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Biographies and Profiles of Council Members 2007-2008
Karen Burgin
Karen is a Registered General Nurse with nearly 25 years post qualification experience. Following her initial registration she practiced in general nursing before specialising within the field of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Since 1992 Karen has been involved in the specific field of community based rehabilitation and acquired brain injury, having established the Nottingham Traumatic Brain Injury Service where she worked as a Brain Injury Case Manager from 1992- 1998.
Karen left the NHS in 1998 and joined Rehab UK where she developed a range of vocational and support services for people with acquired brain injury including a case management service.
Since 2006 Karen has worked for Bush & Company Rehabilitation LLP, who provides a range of medico-legal, assessment and case management services. Karen coordinates the case management services and continues to carry a caseload of adults and children with acquired brain injury. She has a particular interest in the case management and provision of education services for children with brain injury.
Carol Collins – Membership Secretary
Carol has a background in diagnostic radiography, creative arts and therapeutic horse riding and on qualifying as an Occupational Therapist in 1992 began to work with people with acquired brain injury at Highbank Health Care Ltd.
Carol designed rehabilitation programmes for clients both within the unit and within the community and in 1993 began to provide Brain Injury Case Management Services. She was also involved in the setting up and commissioning of new services, including a Continuing Care Unit and a Transitional Living Unit for people with acquired brain injury.
In 1997 Carol began operating as an independent Occupational Therapist and case manager and subsequently established Northern Case Management Ltd. She continues to carry an active case load in addition to supervising her team of case managers and administrative support staff.
Carol is listed in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses and has attained the level of Advanced Member of the British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM).
Published in 2002, Carol is co-author of the acquired brain injury chapter in ‘Occupational Therapy and Physical Dysfunction’.
Anne Cossar
I qualified as an occupational therapist in 1990 and started my career at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh. In1994 I transferred to the East and Midlothian NHS Trust and later became Head Occupational Therapist.
In 1999 the NHS trusts reconfigured and I became Occupational Therapy Clinical Specialist employed by the Lothian University Hospitals Trust.
In 2000 I left the NHS and set up Phoenix Care and Therapy Limited. ‘Phoenix’ now provides a range of services including case management, care at home, nursing care and a multidisciplinary range of rehabilitation services to children and adults. (Phoenix Therapy and Care Ltd is registered with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care as a nursing Agency and a Care at Home Provider.) In addition I provide consultancy and research/development services to the statutory authorities locally. This has included advertising the local Education Department regarding the access of children with disabilities in mainstream schools and fulfilling a role as a project worker looking at the transition of young people from statutory children’s to adult services.
Throughout my professional life I have worked with people affected by disability. This includes children and adults affected by acute trauma, for example head injury or spinal injury, as well as those with congenital or acquired conditions such as learning disability or cerebral palsy.
I have experience of setting up and monitoring care packages for people with complex special needs, including acquired brain injury and ventilated clients. This experience has included close liaison with clients and other professionals, care planning, recruitment of qualified and unqualified care staff, implementing rehabilitation programmes, staff training and development, and advising on health and safety issues.
For the last 10 years I have also been preparing medico-legal reports for the courts on the care of those affected by disability or injury, particularly those who have suffered catastrophic injury.
Caroline Ferber - Treasurer and Director
Caroline's professional expertise is based on the twenty five years' working experience gained since qualifying as an occupational therapist. She has worked in the field of neuro-rehabilitation for 24 of these 25 years. For the past 13 years she has also prepared medico-legal reports on care and additional needs of people who have suffered traumatic brain injury.
Since 1991 she has been working directly as a brain injury case manager. She is the owner and executive director of Anglia Case Management Limited, a company working exclusively with adults and children who have sustained traumatic brain injury. She now has ten other case managers working with her providing community based services across East Anglia. The company is now registered as a Domiciliary Care Agency under the National Care Standards Commission and she is the Registered Manager.
Cathy Johnson
In 1992 Cathy became a member of the original steering group which led to the foundation of BABICM in 1996. A social worker, who spent many years working the Institute of Neurological Services in Glasgow, Cathy has worked with people with brain injury since 1984. She was involved in developing the first purpose built rehabilitation unit in Scotland, Scotcare and later worked at the Kemsley Unit at St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton as unit manager. She was at the same time the Chief Executive for Oakwood Cheshire Home in Stockport.
Cathy has served twice as a Trustee for the national board of Headway and has been involved in the European Brain Injury Society for many years.
In 1995 Cathy established Rehab Without Walls with her partner, Dr Neil Brooks to provide case management, expert reports and community rehabilitation. Rehab Without Walls has 23 case managers working across England to provide community based services. We are registered with C.S.C.I. as a Domiciliary Care Agency.
Cathy has written various articles and chapters including “How to Choose a Rehabilitation Unit”, “Developing Experience in Case Management” and concerning community reintegration post brain injury. She has worked with the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities in the USA to develop standards for brain injury rehabilitation and case management. She has been a member of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) since 1994 and has been involved in the Consultative Forum at the Public Guardianship Office for several years.
Nikki Ounsworth
Nikki Ounsworth is a Registered General Nurse who has worked at all stages of the neurological trajectory both in a clinical and managerial capacity. She trained at Stoke Mandeville Hospital qualifying in 1991. She practised in the field of Trauma and Orthopaedics and Spinal Cord Injury for five years, until she moved into the community to work and later manage a multi-professional neurological rehabilitation service in Aylesbury. She subsequently specialised in the field of neurological rehabilitation through her various Clinical Nurse Specialist roles in Acquired Brain Injury in Milton Keynes PCT and Multiple Sclerosis at The Royal Free Hospital in London. Nikki moved into the private sector in 2003 where she has remained since. She recently left her role of Nurse Consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation in 2006 to work with adults and children with complex disabilities including, ABI, SCI and CP. She is currently a self-employed Case Manager with Bush & Company and also carries out immediate needs assessments.
Consolidation of her clinical and academic skills has enabled her to achieve a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Oxford Brookes University and the UKCC Clinical Specialist Practitioner Award ENB A67 and later a post graduate qualification. Her specialist areas of interest is Acquired Brain Injury and Multiple Sclerosis. She is currently working towards her PhD and researching the concept of Fatigue in MS.
Nikki has been a co-editor for the MS Society for their MS Fatigue Booklet published in January 2006 and is a member of the International Working Party for MS Fatigue, for their MS Fatigue Classification, which is due for publication in the next year.
Nikki is a member of the RCN, and various other bodies such as the RCN Rehabilitation Forum, and RCN Continence Care Forum, MS Trust, and Headway. She is a member of the British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM) and the Case Management Society of the UK (CMSUK).
Jackie Parker
Jackie Parker is a qualified social worker and counselor. She has an early background in residential social work where she worked with emotionally disturbed adolescents and later with adults with mental health difficulties.
As a qualified social worker Jackie initially worked at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital as a ward attached social worker on the orthopedic wards and then on the acute neurological wards. She also worked with patients who were admitted after an episode of self harm.
In 1993 Jackie teamed up with Jenny Garber to form the Head Injury Social Work Team in Sheffield and began to provide a service to clients from the acute stage through to the community. This involved working closely with the therapists at the Head Injury Rehabilitation Centre and an understanding of how therapy led rehabilitation programmes developed. Using the then new Community Care Act the Head Injury Social Work Team designed and implemented packages of support for brain injured clients.
Since 1994 Jackie has been working in private practice as a brain injury case manager, initially as a lone practitioner and over time as an employer. J.S. Parker & Associates is now an organisation of 50 plus staff providing case management, rehabilitation services and support worker training, throughout the North of England from its offices in Sheffield, the North East and Manchester. The company is registered with the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) as a domiciliary care agency.
Jackie edited her first book; Good Practice in Brain Injury Case Management, in 2006 and joins the Council of BABICM as a previous Chair of that organisation.
Mark Tempest
Partner
Harrowell Shaftoe
1 St Saviourgate
York
YO1 8ZQ
Telephone: 01904 558611
Email: mt@harrowell-shaftoe.co.uk
Mark Tempest – Partner and Head of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Department at Harrowell Shaftoe
Mark qualified in psychology before taking professional exams in law. For 20 years he has concentrated in representing very seriously injured clients, notably those with brain injury, spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. He also has an extensive practice in clinical negligence and representing clients who have been the victim of abuse by therapists. Over the years, Mark has also been involved in a number of cutting edge cases, including multi party cases with a public interest element.
Mark is also an active mediator, trained in Geneva and registered with the Centre of Dispute Resolution and the Law Society.
Mark has concluded countless cases in which he recovered in excess of £1 million on behalf of clients. He is focused on giving the strongest legal representation to vulnerable, disadvantaged and severely injured individuals. He is ably supported by a strong team of senior solicitors, all of whom have worked with Mark over the years on a range of cases.
Expertise recognised by membership on the following panels:-
Law Society Expert Personal Injury;
- Law Society Expert Clinical Negligence;
- Law Society Expert Civil and Commercial Mediation;
- Headway Panel Solicitor
- Spinal Injuries Association Panel Solicitor
- MIND Panel solicitor
Mark is also a trustee on the Stepping Stones charity for Pinderfields Spinal Injury Unit and a legal trustee on the Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Paul Yeomans - Information Co-Ordinator and Newsletter Editor
Paul has worked in brain injury rehabilitation since 1988. He has lectured to various providers and special interest groups in the UK and abroad, and is one of the co-authors of Dr Peter Eames' Grafton Manor long term follow-up study, and author of Mental Incapacity: a User's Guide (a response to the Law Commission paper 231)
He has advised Elm Park (Partnerships in Care) on client rights since 1995 and is currently Referrals Co-Ordinator. He is a former specialist member of the Mental Health Act Commission and a member of the Association of Freelance Journalists. He has also guest lectured at Suffolk College (UEA) on discrimination law and practice. He has been an Associate Member of BABICM since 1996.
Paul has been pivotal in developing and editing the quarterly BABICM Newsletter and recently made a presentation on human rights for the Sexuality and Vulnerability training day.
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