During the past 12 months, APCP members have adapted to changing job roles and work practice. East Anglia committee members, Cat Morley and Jacqui Taylor, share their experience of re-deployment.
Cat Morley (Chair - APCP East Anglia Region Committee)
Cat normal works a Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist for the Integrated Community Paediatric Services in Suffolk.
During the pandemic she has been redeployed for 50% of her working week to the adult Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team in Ipswich (REACT). This role has involved providing multidisciplinary assessment and intervention in the home to prevent hospital admission where possible.
"Working with the REACT (Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team) was a great experience for me, forcing me to step outside my comfort zone and into something completely different. Emphasizing problem solving, multidisciplinary working and risk assessments are such key areas in our practice as physiotherapists wherever we may be. It was a great opportunity and it was great to meet the wider adult community team to get a first hand insight into the services available to our young people post transition."
Jacqui Taylor (Committee Member - APCP East Anglia Region Committee and CPIP-UK Regional Representative for East Anglia)
Jacqui is Clinical Lead for Children and Young People's Community Physiotherapy for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, employed by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
Jacqui has been redeployed as Operational Lead for setting up and overseeing a number of Vaccination Hubs across Cambridgeshire. She has been working tirelessly setting up, coordinating, staffing and managing these centres for the local region. The centres she is managing are vaccinating approximately 3500 people a week!
"Well done, Jacqui!"