Therapies and Rehabilitation staff

David Bignell

Programme Lead Rehabilitation Work

David is a qualified Rehabilitation Worker and the Programme Lead for the Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment), the BSc (Hons) Specialist Complex Needs Rehabilitation Work top up’ degree and the BSc (Hons) Habilitation Work Working with Children and Young People course. David studied at the Guide...

Michelle Brazil

Senior Lecturer/Placement Coordinator in Rehabilitation Work

Michelle qualified as a rehabilitation worker (visual impairment) at Birmingham City University in 2012. Becoming a visiting teacher from 2013, and permanent member of staff in 2019. Since qualifying, Michelle has worked as a qualified rehabilitation worker in local authority and charity settings. This included providing...

Jodie Bryant

Simulation Lead: School of Health Sciences

Jodie has been a HCPC registered Physiotherapist since 2006 after graduating from Oxford Brookes University. She has worked predominantly in NHS settings, completing the majority of her clinical work in London at Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Trust. Jodie has also worked privately and has run her own private domiciliary...

Susan Cadby

Senior Lecturer in Rehabilitation Work

Susan is a qualified Rehabilitation Worker. Studying rehabilitation work was a natural progression from her studies in deaf studies and linguistics. Since qualifying Susan has worked in both local authority and charity settings. The role included providing specialist assessments for people with sight loss, hearing loss and...

Peter Cooke

Senior Lecturer/Admissions Tutor

Peter's key experience of Rehabilitation Work arose from working in the heart of Birmingham area delivering rehabilitation assessment and training to people newly diagnosed with sight loss. This area of Birmingham was particularly challenging due to high numbers of people of working age whose sight loss was often accompanied...

Dr Marianne Hensman

Lecturer

Marianne graduated from Leeds Beckett University in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy. She was practising as a physiotherapist from 1999-2007 working in both acute and community settings, latterly specialising in rehabilitation of patients with neurological conditions. Marianne completed her MSc in Continuing Professional...

Leanne Job

Lecturer in Physiotherapy

Leanne started her physiotherapy career in 2005 at Worcester Royal Hospital where she stayed for 3 years gaining baseline experience in the main areas of physiotherapy. She then joined the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham where she has remained ever since. Here she gained experience in various musculoskeletal...

Claire Jones

Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy

Claire has been a registered physiotherapist with the HCPC since graduating from the University of Birmingham in 2007 MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration). Claire has worked primarily in the NHS but also in the private sector. Claire has worked in a variety of settings within physiotherapy and the majority of this time was...

Sean McIntosh

Lecturer in Dietetics

Sean has had an extensive and varied career as a clinical dietitian with a career spanning 10 years in multiple specialties ahead of starting a lecture position here at Birmingham City University. Sean has worked around the United Kingdom starting in Leeds in 2013, completing Nutritional Support within the community setting....

Kiri Pointon-Bell

Lecturer in Dietetics

Kiri joined BCU after working for the British Dietetic Association (BDA) as their Policy Officer for Professional Development. In this role she supported the dietetic profession across the UK in various aspects of professionalism, digitalisation and also led a key project on safe workload and safe staffing levels for NHS...