Meet The Team
Midlands
Jackie Waller
Occupational Therapist & Director
Since qualifying from the Derby School of Occupational Therapy in 1987 Jackie has worked in a variety of settings. Her first 3 NHS hospital based posts enabled her to gain an understanding of a wide range of conditions and treatment programmes within a busy, acute setting. Throughout all three roles she participated in the supervision of OT students.
Sally Johns
Senior Occupational Therapist
Sally qualified from Derby school of Occupational Therapy in 1997. She spent three years working at University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) rotating through a variety of clinical areas including Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hand Therapy, Neurosurgery, Elderly Care and Rehabilitation. She worked as a Senior Occupational Therapy locum for a year in Stroke, Neurology and Intermediate Care.
In 2003 Sally specialised in Neuro-rehabilitation working at West Park Hospital. She worked with individuals on a Stroke rehabilitation unit facilitating their return to independence with thorough assessment and treatment of physical, cognitive and perceptual skills.
Sarah Watkins
Senior Occupational Therapist
Sarah joined CJ Occupational Therapy in July 2017 as a Senior Occupational Therapist. She provides Occupational Therapy assessment for the provision of major adaption and specialist equipment for complex medico-legal cases. She also provides assessment and recommendation regarding adaptations for housing associations.
Emma Rose
Senior Associate Occupational Therapist
Emma strongly believes that the environment influences a person’s occupational performance which led her become the course director for a Foundation Degree in Assistive Technology between 2011 and 2013 and achieving an MSc accessibility and Inclusive Design in 2015. In 2020 Emma joined CJ Occupational Therapy as a Senior Associate Occupational Therapist. She provides Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to clients with catastrophic neurological diagnoses both within specialist residential facilities and the wider community.
Helen Moir
Associate Occupational Therapist
Helen joined CJOT in 2020 as an Associate Occupational Therapist. She provides Occupational Therapy
assessment and intervention to clients with catastrophic neurological diagnoses both within
specialist residential facilities and the wider community.
Ginny Appleton-Hendley
Associate Occupational Therapist
Ginny began working as an Associate Occupational Therapist for CJOT in 2019, alongside her NHS role. She provides Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to clients with catastrophic neurological diagnoses within the community.
Jacqueline Hunt
Administration Assistant
Jacqueline joined CJOT in 2017 as an administration assistant.
Jacqueline is an experienced administrator / coordinator with a background in compliance and safeguarding. Having worked for a variety of companies she has a proven track record in project management, DBS applications and training online system users.
South
Joanne Evans
Senior Occupational Therapist
Joanne qualified in 1997 from the Derby School of Occupational Therapy.
She worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and rotated in the clinical areas of elderly care, renals, neurosurgery, neurology, oncology and orthopaedics
From 2003 she specialised in Neurology and Neurosurgery, with the role also covering Neuro Critical Care, outpatients and a monthly outpatient clinic for regional MND patients. Conditions treated varied from those frequently seen such as traumatic and non traumatic spinal injuries, MS, neuropathies, brain tumours, acquired brain injuries and Parkinson’s Disease to less common conditions such as CJD and Huntingtons Disease. The role involved liaison with rehab, voluntary and support network services across the West Midlands.
South Wales
Emma Wallace Gibbons
Senior Occupational Therapist
Emma joined CJ Occupational Therapy in November 2017 as a Senior Associate Occupational Therapist. She provides Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to clients with catastrophic neurological diagnoses both within specialist residential facilities and the wider community. She continues to assess and recommend specialist equipment including wheelchair provision.