Opening times
Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm
Telephone
Please see below for contact numbers
Location
Ground floor, south corridor, with a separate entrance at the front of the hospital
We aim to deliver the best quality care and develop effective working relationships, both within and outside the Trust for our patients' benefit.
Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy staff all work together in integrated specialist teams, overseen by a Service Operational Manager for Integrated Therapies.
Integration of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy brings with it a number of benefits including:
- patients receive more co-ordinated treatment packages and better quality of care.
- both professions benefit from a greater breadth of learning. Core knowledge and skills between the professions are identified and training addressed consistently and more efficiently across both groups.
- Therapy Assistant Practitioners (Band 4) and Therapy Assistant (Band 2) roles in our core inpatient teams has enabled support staff to carry out both Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy components of patient care. Again this enables a more coordinated approach for the benefit of our patients.
Our department is welcoming and friendly, and has strong links with our local Community Services and Social Services partners. We constantly review our staffing skill mix and structure to meet the changing needs of the local population accessing our services, alongside the development needs of staff.
If you are asked to complete an Occupational Therapy furniture heights form you may find this video helpful.
Beverly Chilson
Rene Gray
Tamzin Springall
For patient information leaflets please click here and choose the Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy drop down.
For current vacancies in the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy team at the James Paget please click here and choose 'Vacancies' and the Allied Health Professional section.
The Pelvic Health Physiotherapy team (formerly the women and men’s health physiotherapy team) assess and treat adults and children with bladder and bowel symptoms, as well as those with prolapse symptoms.
The team cares for women and birthing people after birth and also support women before and after major gynaecology surgery.
