Graham Collins
Graham Collins has worked as a qualified Clinical Psychologist for over 30 years. He also has qualifications in Occupational Psychology.
During his career Graham has worked in the NHS, the private sector and the charitable sector. He has worked with children and adults with learning disabilities in the community and a wide range of other settings. For over 20 years he was Head of Learning Disability Clinical Psychology for the NHS in North Nottinghamshire.
Graham has published papers on Challenging Behaviour, Autism, Quality of Life, Staff stress and support, the Role of support staff, Sexuality and relationships, Needs assessment and Assessing satisfaction for people with learning disabilities. He has spoken at several conferences, national and international.
Graham has a commitment to enhancing the quality of life of people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and other psychological problems and uses knowledge and skills from a range of theoretical approaches.
Andrew Southgate
Andrew Southgate is a senior chartered physiotherapist, working predominantly for the NHS and with over 9 years experience working with clients with complex neurological conditions. He qualified in Physiotherapy with a first class honours degree from Sheffield. He is a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and am registered with the Health Professions Council.
Andrew holds two weekly physiotherapy clinics at Innova House, working with service users on a one-to-one basis, developing tailored physiotherapy rehabilitation programmes. Physiotherapy rehabilitation is important for many of the Innova House service users in promoting and maintaining their levels of mobility and function. Building a professional working relationship with both staff and service users has been key to achieving continuity and the best possible physiotherapy rehabilitation outcomes. Working closely with the staff has enabled prescribed physiotherapy exercises to be carried out on a daily basis by trained staff, to the benefit of the service users.
He is also the Manual Handling trainer, ensuring staff are taught the principles of safe handling and are competent in using the transferring and lifting equipment at Innova House. Training is updated on a regular basis and risk assessments are reviewed to ensure staff work as safely as possible tailored to the service users needs.
Andrew continues to enjoy the challenges and rewards of working closely with both service users and staff, helping to establish therapeutic goals and linking the physiotherapy sessions to promote greater independence.
If you or your family have any questions regarding the physiotherapy service at Innova House, he would be more than happy to discuss these.
Fiona Speirs
B.Ed (Hons) Special Education.
ACE Autism.
DfES/DH/TPU Approved Teacher of PHSE & SRE.
C&G 7402 Counselling & Guidance Skills
ILM Level 5 Coaching & Mentoring
Highly Commended by the Pamela Sheridan Award for SRE Work 2009
Fiona Speirs is an Education Consultant specialising in working with children and adults with ASD, their families and those who support in a professional capacity. She also delivers training around a host of issues relating to the support of people with ASC and is an associate trainer for the National Autistic Society and other organisations in addition to delivering freelance training. She regularly speaks at conferences throughout the UK and undertakes consultancy based work with parents and professionals from a variety of settings.
Fiona has a background in Education and her qualifications include B.Ed (Hons) Special Education, ACE Autism, DfES/DH/TPU Approved Teacher of PHSE & SRE, ILM Level 5 Coaching & Mentoring, C&G 7402 Counselling & Guidance Skills, and former Assistant Headteacher, Centre of Excellence School for Autism, Nottingham.
Fiona has developed highly visual resources that are widely used in a variety of settings such as schools and colleges and has a particular interest in promoting personal, health and social understanding for people with ASD. She has a keen interest in Sex & Relationships based work and has developed an SRE course that she delivers to students with Asperger Syndrome within a local college of FE. This piece of work was highly commended by the Pamela Sheridan Award for SRE Work in 2009.
Fiona works directly with children and adults across the spectrum of autism and also has a personal interest in ASD as she has an adult brother with a classic presentation of autism and additional severe learning disability.
