Penny is a remarkable Occupational Therapist, providing specialist services for adults with complex needs for Medico-Legal cases, Private Clients and families, Schools & Colleges, Local Authorities, Statutory Services, Businesses, Charities and Housing Associations.
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Helen Spencer
Clinical Director
Specialist skills for a Client's specific needs
Established in 2010 to provide high quality OT and SI Services
Clinical Excellence and Client needs Before Profit
Adult Occupational Therapy
BSc Occupational Therapy, MSc Occupational Therapy
Brighton (East Sussex)
Crawley (West Sussex)
Guildford (Surrey)
Woking (Surrey)
Horsham (West Sussex)
Worthing (West Sussex)
Croydon (Greater London)
Sutton (Greater London)
Kingston upon Thames (G. London)
Bromley (Greater London)
Farnborough (Hampshire)
Aldershot (Hampshire)
Reigate and Banstead (Surrey)
Epsom and Ewell (Surrey)
Penny is an accomplished occupational therapist and clinical leader with over 16 years of specialist experience in critical care, acute neurology, and complex rehabilitation. Her practice is driven by a genuine passion for helping individuals adjusting to life changing illness or injury and to regain control over their lives. Penny’s personal experience as a sibling-carer to her brother with Cerebral Palsy and Learning Difficulties brings authentic empathy and a wealth of lived experience of lifelong disability and navigating complex health and social care systems.
Penny has acquired exceptional expertise across some of the most clinically demanding environments across the NHS, including A&E, major trauma centres and longer term neurological rehabilitation wards. Her experience spans intensive care units specialising in neurological, cardiorespiratory, cardiosurgical, and liver conditions, as well as hyper-acute stroke units providing specialist assessment within the first 24 hours. She is necessarily highly skilled in both fast-paced, complex planning and longer-term intensive rehabilitation.
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Penny's clinical expertise is comprehensive and highly adaptable, she has advanced skills in moving and handling, postural assessments, wheelchair and specialist seating provision, neurological hand therapy, and specialist splinting for upper limb rehabilitation. Her experiences cover working with a range of clients needs and diagnosis, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, motor neurone disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, encephalitis, prolonged disorders of consciousness, and polytrauma including early amputee support and rehabilitation. Penny is particularly skilled in cognitive rehabilitation, oedema management, and creating innovative, occupationally-focused interventions that support meaningful recovery.
A recognised expert in her field, Penny has served as an Associate Lecturer at Brunel University and the University of Liverpool, and as a consulting occupational therapist for the iRehab critical care research study at Ulster University. She provides ongoing training and supervision to intervention teams, delivers “problem based” seminars for MSc OT students and contributes to trials/research.Â
Penny's commitment to accessibility and effective communication underpins everything she does. She is passionate about ensuring every client feels valued, heard, and genuinely understood. She adapts her communication to suit each individual, using a range of techniques when working with clients who have cognitive impairments or communication difficulties. Penny always works in partnership with clients, families, and professionals, creating collaborative relationships that support the best possible outcomes. Through her clinical insight, lived experience, and unwavering dedication, she continues to make a profound difference to the individuals and families she supports.
Aids & Equipment, Capacity Assessments,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, Orthopaedic Injuries, Physical Rehabilitation, Postural Management, Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness PDOC, Sleep Hygiene, SMART Goal Setting & Reporting, Specialist Seating, Splinting, Training, Upper Limb Rehabilitation, Vehicle Assessment, Vocational support: Return to Work or Education, Wheelchair Assessments
Cognitive Rehabilitation, Fatigue Management, Functional Skills Training: Independent Living Skills (ILS), Upper Limb Rehabilitation
Elderly Care OT, Manual Handling OT, Neurorehabilitation OT, Posture and Seating OT, Spinal Injury OT, Trauma & Orthopaedics OT, Vocational Rehabilitation OT
NeurologicalÂ
Acquired Brain Injury (Cerebral Palsy CP), Acquired Brain Injury (Stroke, Concussion, Aneurysm, Substance Use/Drug/Alcohol, Hypoxic or Anoxic Brain Injury, Tumor, Brain haemorrhage, Encephalitis), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS, Progressive Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis MS, Motor Neurone Disease MND, Huntington's Disease, Progressive Conditions: Parkinson's Disease, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness PDOC, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury
Physiological
Amputation, Arthritis, Catastrophic Injury, Orthopaedic Injury, Fractures
Other
Elderly
Case Managers & Medicolegal, Private Clients, Individuals & Families, Schools & Colleges, Housing Associations, Local Authorities/Statutory Services, Primary Care, Businesses & Charities
HCPC Registration: OT58530
RCOT Membership: BT0236736
Occupational Therapists vetted by our Clinical Director as specialists in their field.
Working with Case Managers, Solicitors and the Client MDT since 2010
Remaining a family owned, family run practice putting clinical services, quality and integrity before profit.
Direct access to your OT via Mobile Phone and online Call-Back Booking Service.
Secure Online Access to all aspects of our work, including Professional Reports, SMARTAAR Goal Plans, Goal-Scored Client Sessions and Client Appointment Schedules.
Fully Costed Proposals for fixed periods of SMARTAAR goal-driven outcome focused therapy.
Quantifiable clinically justifiable interventions through Session by Session scored Outcome Reports and End-Term Treatment Review Reports.
Best use of tools and technologies to provide a first-class service for our clients and our customers.
Custom built Apps make it easy for your OT to manage your client case, documentation, goal plans and reports, providing a clear framework for their clinical work.
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