Sue Young 

Occupational Therapist 

Sue has 29 years’ experience as an occupational therapist in social services, health and private practice and 4 years in case management. She has worked with adults and children addressing physical and mental health conditions. Sue is very familiar with complex housing needs and adaptations and has extensive experience of managing complex manual handling.  

Sue has worked with a variety of specialities including lower limb amputees, orthopaedics, head injury, spinal injury, neurodegenerative conditions, dementia, anxiety and depression, cerebral palsy, spina bifida and complex multi-pathology diagnoses.  

Sue recognises the benefits of statutory services provision and utilises their services but also identifies where there is potential for clients to achieve their goals or maintain high quality of life through the appointment of private specialists. Sue manages multidisciplinary teams and identifies the right health care professional to address presenting challenges being experienced by the client. She has managed care teams and dealt with unexpected staff shortages to maintain continuity of care. Sue has supported families to go on holiday together, or with care teams and ensured the holiday destinations are suitable to meet the client’s needs. She always places the client and family at the centre of all decision making.  

Sue has completed multiple comprehensive immediate needs reports for clients who have experienced catastrophic work-based accidents and road traffic collisions resulting in orthopaedic injuries and lower limb amputation. She has also managed litigation and settled cases providing regular update reports to inform the supporting legal team and settling clients into their forever home. Her experience of working in acute, rehabilitation and community settings has enabled her to support clients to address goals in care, education, work, social and leisure activities.  

She actively seeks training and learning opportunities and enjoys sharing her knowledge and applying it creatively to clients. She has also attained a certificate from the University of East Anglia on the role of personal care assistants in disability support.  

Sue is passionate about quality work and takes pride in being thorough and evidencing her outcomes with sound clinical reasoning based on individual goals and aspirations.   

• Member of BABICM & RCOT
• HCPC Registered & DBS Checked