Council Member Profiles
Jackie Dean - BABICM Chair
Jackie Dean qualified as an occupational therapist in 1978. She is Director of N-Able Services Ltd, a service offering case management and therapy services across the North West of England.
Cathy Johnson - Chair of Professional Standards Group and Newsletter/Marketing Group
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 - Vice Chair & Education Chair
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 has recently formed a partnership within COOCI Associates LLP and will continue to carry out immediate needs assessment reports and case management intervention for clients who have sustained catastrophic injuries and who present with complex health and social care needs.
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).
Karenmarie Smith - Chair of CYP
She qualified as an OT in 1983 and has worked in various clinical and managerial positions in the UK and New Zealand. She has worked in many environments including community learning disability, national disability resource centre, mental health community, paediatric – hospital and community. In 1993-1998 she was case manager /OT in Andover Social Services Children and Families team. She joined Independent Living Solutions in 1998 as Senior Case Manager/Paediatric OT working with children who had CP and ABI. She is an advanced member of BABICM since 2004. She is now Director of Operations at ILS, managing and recruiting other case managers, therapists and supervisors. She trains staff and has day to day management of the business.
She feels her 15 years experience as a case manager may be helpful in the promotion of good quality case management now and in the future. She was instrumental in gaining a ‘Training Excellence Award ‘ and the ‘Investors in people Award’ for Independent Living Solutions ltd . She is committed to the future training of all of our Case managers, for the benefit of all of our clients and would like to bring this to the BABICM committee.
Tracey Clarke - Chair of Training Events Sub group
Tracey is a registered General Nurse with in-depth and extensive neurological experience. She trained at Stoke Mandeville Hospital qualifying in 1992. She remained there until 1997 where she gained experience in trauma and orthopaedics, plastic surgery and rheumatology. She moved into the community to work in a multi professional neurological service in Aylesbury. Tracey then developed her management skills across two community hospitals, developing the rehabilitation services. She went on to specialise in the field of neurological rehabilitation through her clinical nurse specialist roles in Acquired Brain Injury in Milton Keynes PCT and multiple sclerosis in Oxford. Tracey has obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Rehabilitation and is working towards her Masters. She is a member of BABICM and CMSUK, Headway, MS Society and RCN. She has recently formed a Partnership with COOCI Associates LLP and will continue to carry out immediate needs assessments and case management intervention for clients who have sustained catastrophic injuries and who present with complex health and social needs.
Penny Haysom - Membership Secretary
Penny Haysom began working in care as an auxiliary nurse in various posts in residential and nursing homes, including the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability in Putney. She qualified as a Registered General Nurse and later joined Surrey Social Services as a case manager for people with physical, cognitive and sensory disabilities, eventually becoming an operations manager, overseeing a number of case management teams across two Surrey Boroughs. She moved into commissioning services sitting on the county-wide Acquired Brain Injury Strategy Group, and reviewing and analysing both health and social care services for people with a neuro-disability in Surrey, focusing particularly on the resources used and outcomes achieved. She was seconded to East Surrey Health Authority as commissioning manager, where she negotiated and monitored contracts and agreed quality standards, as well as leading on certain countywide projects such as neuro-disability.
In 2000 Penny became Strategic Development Manager for Adults and Primary Care, a joint post between Camden Social Services and Camden Primary Care Trust. She worked closely with the specialist physical and cognitive disability team, and completed a BA and Diploma in Social Work in 2002. That year she moved to Woking Borough Council as Head of Policy and Performance, a post from which she retired in 2006, when she joined Head First as a Brain Injury Clinical Case Manager.
Bill McKinlay - Chair of Scottish Sub group
Dr McKinlay has over 30 years experience in Neurospsychology, working in brain injury research, in neurosurgical units, and in rehabilitation (residential and community-based). Current practice is focussed on the provision of community-based rehabilitation and support using a case-manager-led multidisciplinary model. As clinical director/neuropsychologist, he provides input and guidance for the team in relation to memory retraining, anger management, emotional adjustment, and also family adjustment to the changes resulting from injury.
He also has extensive medico-legal experience and provides support and supervision to team members from various disciplines at CMS needs/care reports. He has recently participated in conferences in Lisbon (ethical issues in the medico-legal assessment) and Washington (round-table on mild TBI assessment) and has published extensively over the years. He is Associate Editor of the medical/scientific journal Brain Injury.
Sinead Fallon
Sinead has been working for HACM Ltd as a case manager for approximately two and a half years. Her caseload includes children and adults with an acquired brain injury. She has found this client group to be challenging but also extremely rewarding to facilitate their recovery process through co-ordination of the rehabilitation programme. She would like to be considered as a council member to promote BABICM as an organisation and network with like-minded individuals.
Sue Draper - Company Secretary
Sue has worked within the field of brain injury rehabilitation and support since 1987. She is a Registered Mental Health Nurse and began working as a Brain Injury Case Manager in 1995, initially with Brain Injury Services and since 1996 with Independent Case Management.
In 2002 Sue became co owner and Director of Independent Case Management Ltd.
Sue is based at Independent Case Management’s main office in Towcester, Northants and coordinates and supervises the case management services provided by Case Managers based around the country.
Sue has been an Advanced member of BABICM since 1999 and has previously been a member of the professional issues group. She is also a member of CMSUK, BISWG, RCN and Headway.
Mark Holloway
I qualified with an MA and Diploma in Social Work in 1995. I then co-ordinated an advocacy service for 3 years for Southwark Disablement Association a voluntary sector organisation set up for and by disabled people.
Since this time I have worked as the Acquired Brain Injury Co-ordinator for East Sussex and with others, initiated the setting up and running of the Eastbourne Headway Support Group.
I joined Head First (Assessment and Case Management) Ltd at the beginning of April 2001 to work as a Brain Injury Clinical Case Manager providing Assessment and Case Management Services to brain injured clients, their families and support workers.
I am an Advanced member of the British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers and have experience in providing Expert Witness Reports for the Courts, in the areas of Care and Case Management, and giving evidence in civil, criminal and criminal injury compensation cases.
Carolyn Archibold
Carolyn has over 20 years experience as a clinician working in neurology and neurosurgery, with experience also of working both in the UK and abroad in brain injury rehabilitation. She holds an MSc with distinction in Health Sciences. She has over 10 years experience as a brain injury case manager and in 2006 founded CA Case Management Ltd. She continues to practice as a case manager and also provides training and supervision to other brain injury case managers. She is an Advanced member of BABICM and also undertakes Expert Care and Case management reports for the Court.
Patti Simonson
Patti Simonson is a registered social worker with extensive social work and case management experience in the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors in the field of brain injury. She has been undertaking independent brain injury case management work since 2001 and is a long standing member of BABICM.
Linda Marsden
I qualified as a Social Worker in 1988 having obtained an MA and CQSW from Leicester University. I have subsequently worked in a wide variety of statutory and voluntary settings– Hospital Social Work, Child Protection and as a self employed Trainer and Consultant. I joined Anglia Case Management in 2006, as the Training and Care Coordinator, and soon after took over the Registered Manager role with responsibility for the company’s registration with the CQC. My work within the brain injury field has been a steep but exciting learning curve since that time. This fits well with my commitment to lifelong learning and development for myself and others. I am currently studying, part time, for a Post Grad Diploma in Human Resource Management at Anglia Ruskin University.
- Ensuring we meet the learning and development needs of all our directly employed support staff.
- The development and ongoing management of complex care packages.
- Working in partnership with Case Managers and other professional staff to help them meet their own learning and development needs.
- And keeping abreast and compliant with the ever changing regulatory and legislative requirements facing the sector.
Ben Holden
Since qualifying as an Occupational Therapist in Adelaide, Australia in 1998, the majority of Ben’s career has been in the adult acquired brain injury field. Ben has worked in the public and private sectors in the UK and Australia in a variety of different clinical settings. He has many years of experience completing medico legal assessment reports and providing expert testimony in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Ben has over ten years experience as a brain injury case manager and established Ben Holden Ltd in 2009. He is an advanced member of BABICM.
Claire Booth
Claire qualified as an occupational therapist in 1985. She has worked in a variety of NHS and private health care settings specialising in Neurology and particularly brain injury. She set up a case management service in the early 1990s as part of a private rehabilitation unit. Claire was also part of a working group at that time looking at standards for brain injury rehabilitation units. In 1996 she started working as an independent case manager and on a consultancy basis as an expert witness. Other Consultancy work included setting standards and policies for a new brain injury unit in the south west.
In 2001 Claire set up Westcountry Case Management so she could share her increasing case load with other specialist case managers. She has recently relinquished her expert witness work to focus on developing Westcountry Case Management and ensuring that the case managers that work with her have the support and supervision required to provide a well managed and coordinated service for brain injured clients that meets their needs. She achieved advanced membership of BABICM in 2005. She is on the Professional Standards Groups and looks forward to assisting with fundraising for BABICM.