A specialist Neurorehabilitation and Vocational Rehabilitation OT with over 20 years of experience supporting adults with acquired brain injury and progressive neurological conditions. Chania provides specialist services for Medico-Legal cases, Case Managers, Private Clients and families, and Local Authorities.
“ Chania joined The OT Centre in 2026.
Chania is a person-centred, practical and compassionate OT with more than twenty years in neurorehabilitation. Her depth of experience with acquired brain injury, together with having established a return-to-work pathway for people living with Long Covid, makes her a real asset to the adults, families and employers she supports."
Helen Spencer
Clinical Director
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Adult Occupational Therapist
PG Dip in Occupational Therapy, with distinction
Brighton (East Sussex)
Worthing (West Sussex)
Crawley (West Sussex)
Eastbourne (East Sussex)
Hastings (East Sussex)
Horsham (West Sussex)
Tunbridge Wells (Kent)
Reigate and Banstead (Surrey)
Epsom and Ewell (Surrey)
Sutton (Greater London)
Chania is a highly experienced neurorehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation Occupational Therapist providing specialist services for Adults for Medico-Legal cases, Case Managers, Private Clients and families. She qualified in 2001 and has spent more than twenty years working with adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) and progressive neurological conditions, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and motor neurone disease.
Her career spans acute, inpatient and community neurorehabilitation across the NHS and independent sector, including the Sussex Rehabilitation Centre and twelve years with the Community Neurological Rehabilitation Team in Worthing. As a Band 7 Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist at Brainkind’s specialist neurological rehabilitation centre in Horsham, she has managed a complex ABI caseload, acted as key worker for clients, ensuring their care and rehabilitation needs were met, completed capacity and risk assessments, facilitated complex discharges and supervised and trained colleagues.
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Chania’s clinical strengths are cognitive assessment and rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation and the management of behaviour that challenges. She makes extensive use of standardised cognitive, perceptual and memory assessments to underpin goal-led, evidence-based rehabilitation programmes. Her community work also covers complex posture, seating and wheelchair assessment and the recommendation of equipment, adaptations and packages of care.
Vocational rehabilitation is a particular interest. Chania has a long record of helping people return to, remain in or adapt their employment following illness or injury, carrying out work-based assessments, producing return-to-work reports and liaising with employers, occupational health and HR. During the Covid-19 pandemic she identified the need for vocational support for people living with Long Covid and established the return-to-work pathway for Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust’s Post Covid Assessment and Support Service, acting as its return-to-work lead and providing supporting letters for ill-health retirement and benefits applications.
Chania is known for a person-centred, practical and compassionate approach. She works closely with clients, families, healthcare professionals and employers, and is motivated by enabling people to maximise their independence and take part fully in the activities that matter most to them.
Aids & Equipment, Assistive Technologies, Challenging Behaviours Management & Support, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Falls, Fatigue Management, Functional Skills Training: Independent Living Skills (ILS), Activities of Daily Living (ADL), Community Access, Housing Adaptations: Minor, Housing Assessment, Manual Handling, Mobility, Motor Skills - Fine or Gross, Neurorehabilitation, Physical Rehabilitation, Postural Management, Sleep Hygiene, SMART Goal Setting & Reporting, Specialist Seating, Upper Limb Rehabilitation, Vocational support: Return to Work or Education, Wheelchair Assessments, Work-Site Assessments
Challenging Behaviours Management & Support, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Physical Rehabilitation, Vocational support: Return to Work or Education
Neurological
Acquired Brain Injury (Stroke, Concussion, Aneurysm, Substance Use/Drug/Alcohol, Hypoxic or Anoxic Brain Injury, Tumour, Brain haemorrhage, Encephalitis), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS, Progressive Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis MS, Motor Neurone Disease MND, Huntington's Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury
Other
Elderly
Case Managers & Medicolegal, Private Clients, Individuals & Families, Housing Associations, Local Authorities/Statutory Services, Primary Care, Businesses & Charities
HCPC Registration: OT33436
RCOT Membership: BT0222268
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