Posts Tagged “Headway Staff”
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Sophie's Challenge
Sophie Parker, a Rehabilitation Worker at Headway Cambridgeshire, is taking part in the Bear Grylls Survival Race at Wimpole on Saturday 20 August 2016, to raise money for Headway Cambridgeshire. The race, which is combined with an outdoor festival, will be over a 10k course with over 20 obstacles to overcome and at least 2 survival challenges that will test survival skills in different environments and survival si... Read more... -
Thank You For Making It A Great Day
Thank you to everyone who came to our ‘Seeds of Summer’ Garden Party and helped make it a really great day. The event, held on Saturday 11 June, coincided with Carers Week: ‘an annual awareness campaign to celebrate and recognise the vital contribution made by the UK’s 6.5 million carers’* enabling us to celebrate the Seeds of Summer with our clients and their family and carers. Many of our clients are reliant on somebody for ... Read more... -
Heads-Up Spring 2016 Newsletter
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Living With Brain Injury: Cognitive Strategies
Headway Cambridgeshire would like to invite anyone with a brain injury or their family and or carer to attend a FREE cognitive strategies workshop. Living with Brain injury – Cognitive strategies We are very fortunate to be able to offer a cognitive strategy and assistive technology workshop in both Wisbech and Fulbourn, delivered by our Headway Occupational Therapists. Both workshops are identical so please book to attend which ever location is most convenient for you. ... Read more... -
We Have a Vacancy for a Senior Hub Co-ordinator
Senior Hub Co-ordinator Part time 22.5 hours per week Salary - £23825 (pro rata) Based at Longthorpe, Peterborough Are you looking for a job where you can make a real difference? Headway Cambridgeshire is currently looking for a highly motivated, adaptable professional to join our multidisciplinary team providing specialist services to peo... Read more... -
The Malcolm Williams Award 2015
Each year, we present the Malcolm Williams Award to a Headway Cambridgeshire client. The award recognises the efforts and achievements a client has made in their life following their brain injury. Clients can be nominated by Headway Cambridgeshire staff or by other clients. The award is presented annually in memory of the late Malcolm Williams, who attended Headway Cambridgeshire as a client some years ago. In fact, once again, we presented two awards for the Year 2015: one to a client at ... Read more... -
We Have A Vacancy For A Rehabilitation Worker
Rehabilitation Worker - 'Making Headway' Part time 15 hours per week Salary - £18,285 (pro rata) The Community Rehabilitation Worker will join our Big Lottery funded ‘Making Headway’ project. The project supports people with a brain injury and their carers to enable them to build confidence and independence reduce isolation and better cope with the effects of living with a brain injury. The Community Rehabili... Read more... -
A Portrait Of Recovery
Helen McMenamin-Smith, a gym client at Headway Cambridgeshire tells us the story of her recovery after suffering a traumatic brain injury in an accident: "I had been on a photography course with my friend on the day I had my accident. I can’t remember anything about what happened but I have been told that there was a motorcyclist coming in the opposite direction. Apparently he increased speed to catch up with his friends who were in front of him and com... Read more... -
Working With People With A Brain Injury
Sharon Buckland is a Senior Rehabilitation Worker at Headway Cambridgeshire. We asked her: 'What's it like working with patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury?' This is what she told us... "The clients who come to our centre in Fulbourn have sustained their brain injuries in a variety of ways – it could be that they have been involved in a road accident or suffered a stroke or infection. ... Read more... -
Wendy’s Blog – Autumn 2015
Welcome to Austin I’d like to wish a warm welcome to our new boss Austin Willett. We hope you have an enjoyable time while you are with us. I know that I and the rest of the crew are looking forward to the coming months and years. Here’s hoping that you get as much fun working here as most of us do every time we come here. Hello there, I would like to write about Headway, what it does and what it has done for me. It has helped me in so many ways. You are never ... Read more...
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