Janine is an Occupational Therapist by background and a specialist in brain injury case management, having worked at a leading brain injury rehabilitation unit in 1990 and later joining Head First, one of the UK’s first established case management services, in 1997.

As Clinical Manager, her role is to ensure excellent clinical practice and to promote development for all staff, through training, supervision and governance structures, overseeing implementation of clinical policies, CQC compliance and creating working documents, communication systems and management structures.

Over the past 15 years she has also been responsible for co-creating and curating Head First’s highly renowned national conferences, which are designed to share the latest research and innovative practice and promote excellent evidence-based practice in the field of brain injury rehabilitation and case management.

Up until 2021 Janine was an original member of the joint working project that led to the formation of IRCM and is delighted to have returned as a director in 2024.

Professional standards have long been at the heart of Janine’s career, starting with developing standards for Occupational Therapy in New Zealand in 1995 through to developing case management standards as part of the joint working group, and latterly sitting on BABICM Council and the professional standards working group, which led to her being awarded a BABICM fellowship in 2023 for services to complex case management.