Connect Neurotherapy Services Ltd is an Occupational Therapy (OT) service specialising in providing neurological and vocational occupational therapy. Connect Neurotherapy Services’ (CNS’s) vision is to be open minded and practical in order to achieve. We strive to look beyond previous experiences. We channel knowhow, clinical expertise and experience with optimism and imagination to enable and accomplish more. CNS does this alongside private Case Managers and Solicitors as well as NHS and other public sector providers.

CNS enables and connects; be it people and services; service users to service providers and/or charities; and connecting therapists to peers. This philosophy is deeply rooted in the core of OT work – connecting people’s functional ability to maximise opportunity.

CNS also takes direct referrals from families needing support, input and guidance. All services are provided in a diligent, professional, empathetic and unashamedly tenacious manner, truly adaptable to the needs of the client/referrer and their environment. 

Neurological Occupational Therapy

The assessment and treatment of neurological conditions such as Acquired Brain Injury, Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, MS, Parkinsons. Occupational Therapy provides treatment through therapeutic use of everyday activities. We believe at CNS that your current situation should not define your limitations.

• Postural Management
• Upper limb rehabilitation
• Equipment recommendations
• Community reintegration
• Fatigue and sleep
• Supporting education settings
• Safeguarding
• Mental capacity
• Assistive Technology Devices
• Neuro-Behavioural management
• Support worker/carer training
• Medico legal assessment and treatment reports
• Linking with social enterprises and charities
• Managing how social factors impact on day-to-day function
• Accessing leisure and sporting activities
• Structure and routine – meaningful occupations
• Independent living skills including supporting independent living trials
• Multi-disciplinary working, e.g. with Physio, SLT, Psychology and others
• Inpatient rehabilitation and discharge into the community
• Budgeting and financial management skills
• Cognitive skills – memory strategies and fatigue management

Vocational Rehabilitation

Combining the skills & philosophy of Occupational Therapy and the relevant principals of Occupational Health to help people with physical, cognitive, psychological or other health problems to engage with work related activity.

• Returns to work after catastrophic injury
• Sustaining employment post injury or whilst living with a long-term condition
• Consideration and application of reasonable adjustments
• Brain injury education for the workplace/employers
• Applications to the government Access to Work scheme
• Assessment and provision for Fit Notes (Med3) in line with government guidance
• Generation of Allied Health Professional (AHP) Fitness for Work Reports
• Graded work exposure- specifically tailored to client’s functional ability and circumstances
• Employers’ ability to maximise an employee’s work potential, whilst optimising the well-being of the employee and their work colleagues
• Employers’ Corporate social responsibility
• Enhancing generic treatment goals through engagement in vocational rehabilitation
• Exploration of unpaid voluntary work as a meaningful activity
• Workforce wellbeing in conjunction with occupational health and HR departments
• Functional Capacity Evaluations

Clinical Supervision

CNS provides a clinical supervision service to other Occupational Therapists. Clinical Supervision is central to CNS’s ethos; giving confidence, guidance, and the opportunity to grow as highly effective professionals.