WE ARE RECRUITING! We are looking for our next team members, we are seeking a Community Occupational Therapist. The essential requirement is to be a team player. As a Practice we are committed to developing individual talent whilst striving to support a meaningful work/life balance for all our team members. Specification: We require a qualified chartered Physiotherapist with HCPC registration, [...]

Anna Ziemer Moves On... In February Anna Ziemer , takes up a full-time post at Bolton University as a senior lecturer on their brand new Physiotherapy course. Anna is destined to teach & the students she meets will have an inspirational start to their careers. All that have met Anna Ziemer will know what I mean when I describe her [...]

Focus on Community Rehabilitation in 2021 As we look forward to 2021, we have conducted our usual review at the beginning of the business year to ensure we fully meet the needs of our patients, their families, and the professional support networks behind them. Beginning on 23rd March last year every member of our team has successfully transitioned to home [...]

Rehabilitation in the wake of Covid-19 –Top 10 tips for Remote Therapy As we all embrace the challenges of "Lockdown 3" the SP Therapy Team are calm and coordinated. Our car boots are full of PPE and we have robust risk assessments in place to permit the seamless switch to remote therapy via video link. Whilst the Government guidelines are [...]

Brain Injury Rehabilitation During COVID-19 - rethinking the unthinkable!   As we end 2020, and are warmed by the news that a vaccine is being rolled out this week and scientists refer to “the beginning of the end” of this pandemic,  we reflect on 2020 and was it has meant from our perspective. For Susan Pattison, as Director of SP [...]

Jane Raleigh REJOINS SP Therapy Services We are delighted to announce that Jane Raleigh will be re-joining the SP Therapy Services Team on 17th November 2020. Jane will be working across the East Lancashire and West Yorkshire area. Jane gained a first class honours degree in Physiotherapy from University of Huddersfield in 2010 and has worked in [...]

Join us in saying goodbye to Mrs P! Heather Preston, affectionately known as Mrs P, is leaving SP Therapy Services later this month. Heather joined us in 2008 when Susan was looking for an OT to meet the specific needs of a patient. She initially joined on a sessional basis to support this one patient, however her case [...]

“Things got crazier and crazier….” Over the coming weeks we are going to share with you one of the many success stories we have seen at SP Therapy Services during the Covid-19 crisis. We decided to take a “virtual first” approach straight away and Karen Vercoe gradually began to plan some of the creative ways she could engage her clients [...]

Abdi and Karen’s Lockdown Journey: Part 4 The 4th and final installment of Abdi and Karen’s Lockdown Journey is finally here! To read the rest of the journey visit the news section of our website. Abdi “We started using Zoom and things got a lot better. We could do some different things. We played Hangman which is now my favourite game, [...]

“So it started to look like this was going to be a long haul!” The latest installment in “Abdi and Karen’s Lockdown Journey” Abdi “My teacher Tara sent me a timetable that helped me organise my day which was good to help me fill the day. It had lots of activities and exercises to do. I was still hoping [...]