Description
This session will be facilitated by the partners at The OT Link with guest presentations from the private and public sectors.
Lynn Soulsby (BSc(OT)) is the Assistant Director and Head of Department of Occupational Therapy at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital managing a staff compliment of 32 therapists and 4 support staff. She is currently completing a Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH); Health Systems and Policies Health at the university of the Witwatersrand. She has completed a National Certificate in Public Administration at Milpark Business School. She has served on various, Occupational Therapy Education, Association and HPCSA committees and was Gauteng Provincial Representative for Occupational Therapy between 2016 and 2019. She is a dedicated Public Servant of a thriving OT Department has a wealth of clinical and managerial experience to share. She will share her insights on job applications, interviews and appointments in the public sector using her setting as an example.
Nadia Cusack (BSc (OT)) opened her own practice, The Hope Studio in the beginning of 2007. She has extensive experience in Sensory Integration, special needs and early intervention and is involved in the local Neonatal ICU. Nadia has a passion for the development of therapists, parent support and providing therapy of a high quality, where both the child’s and parent’s needs are meet in an emphatic and effective manner. She manages a staff compliment of 10 therapists and her practice is well known and highly regarded in OT circles. She will share her insights on job applications, interviews and appointments in the private sector using her practice as an example.
Jennifer Hooper [(MSc(OT)] joins the session as a facilitator from The OT Link. She has worked in the public health, private practice, and NPO clinical settings covering general practice, paediatrics (medicine and surgery, neurology, psychiatry, learning and development) and medico-legal functional capacity client loads. She has also taught in the under graduate OT programme at WITS University and on a post graduate level predominantly in the fields of neurological rehabilitation and paediatrics. Jennifer’s passions include: teaching and learning; working with families and children towards realising their goals and happy, healthy living; multi-disciplinary, quality service delivery based on sound evidence-based principles; activities(!) and the magic of the task-orientated approach.
Lauren Michell (MSc(OT)) joins the session as a facilitator from The OT Link. She has clinical experience in community, spinal cord rehabilitation, wheelchair seating, sports classification and medico-legal functional capacity evaluations. She worked as lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand predominantly in the field of adult physical rehabilitation. Lauren is passionate about return to work and vocational rehabilitation, particularly in the field of spinal cord injury and this formed the basis for her Masters dissertation. She values evidence-based practice, sound teaching and learning principles and goal driven therapy.
