Edel Cotter Email & Phone Number

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Primary Care, Cork

Adult Primary Care OT supporting independence and good quality of life within the home and the community. Working with clients, their families and carers to re-learn skills, assess and adapt the home, improve their ability to take in and use information, explore leisure or work needs and provide education on how to use enabling equipment.

Band 6 OT on a Specialist Stroke Rotation. Rotation 1 - Acute Stroke at Eastbourne District General Hospital

In order to gain NHS and neurological rehabilitation experience I am currently completing a rotation. Rotations: -Rapid Assessment and Discharge Service (Acute Medical Wards at The Conquest Hospital)-Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team

Band 6 OT in a Therapy Assisted Discharge Service

− As I was not licenced as an OT in Canada I chose to work in professional regulation during my time there. My Canadian work permit expired in June 2018; I have been travelling in Canada and relocating back to the UK/Ireland since leaving this position.− Completing detailed assessments of new international physicians wishing to apply for licensure in BC.

− Assessing adults with physical disabilities, establishing goals and making recommendations while making proper and sound decisions based on their assessed needs.− Prescribed and recommended appropriate major and minor adaptations, seating solutions, equipment provision and moving and handling systems.

− Moved to Canada for 7 months to experience living overseas, not licenced to practice as an OT. − Assisted with final stages of credentialing and licencing of Doctors in the province. − Supported physicians with annual licence renewal applications. − Created certificates of professional conduct.

− Assessing, goal planning, problem solving and intervention planning with very complex clients with physical and cognitive disabilities.− Care review project planning, management and implementation with minimal support. This project produced savings of £350,000 for the department per annum. − Responsible for developing and improving the moving and.

− Manage a complex and varied caseload of adults with physical and/or cognitive disabilities, including complaint and high profile cases.− Formulating plans with clients to maximise their independence using a person centred approach.− Prescribed and recommended appropriate major and minor adaptations, seating solutions, equipment provision and moving and.

− Worked jointly with a Senior Physiotherapist on a Moving and Handling project focused on double-handed packages of care. − Involved in all aspects of the project planning including; initial communication with care agencies and service users and their families and other services in the borough. − Designed the moving and handling assessment form, moving.

- Provided an OT service to both adults and children with enduring physical health needs living in the borough. - Act as an independent practitioner, visiting individuals in their homes to assess current level of functional ability and make recommendations to maintain/improve independence and quality of life.- Held a caseload of complex cases referred to.

In my first role as an OT I consolidated my core community OT skills including:− Specialist OT assessments of individuals with complex disability needs and design adaptive / rehabilitative client centred intervention plans, making best use of resources, in order to maximise service users' functional independence in activities of daily living within their.

B.Sc. (Hons) Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy/Therapist, 2:1

Leaving Certificate, 1A, 5B, 1C