A wedge-tastic webinar with Kay James
In this webinar, Kay James will share with you all the different ways that you can use a positioning wedge to facilitate independence, enablement, optimal handed care and meet people’s care needs with comfort and dignity.
Learning Outcomes
- Discover the types of wedges available.
- Exploring how a wedge can be an effective tool in rehabilitation and enablement services.
- Identifying how using a wedge can help facilitate hospital discharges.
- Looking at how a wedge can help facilitate single handed care.
Meet our Experts
Kay James has been practicing as an Occupational therapist for the last 30 years. She started her Moving & Handling career at King’s College Hospital 26 years ago. Currently, Kay is the Director of OT4Independence Ltd based in Kent providing an Independent Occupational Therapy Service and Moving & Handling Training. She works with therapists from Health and Social Care to implement single carer handling to maximise an individual’s independence, dignity and quality of life. She also works with private care teams, schools, colleges, and local authorities across the South East.
Jayne qualified as an OT in 1996 and has a wide range of clinical experience in acute and community settings. Her recent experience has been in Community Equipment Stores providing training and support to prescribers and commissioners.
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