Morgane Faulkner Le Bras

As an Occupational Rehabilitation Consultant, I worked primarily with OES (Original Employer Services) claims and some RSS (Recovery Support Service) claims. Working in OES involved liaising with insurance agents, employers, workers and their treating medical professionals to co-ordinate a safe and sustainable return to work for all parties. RSS was a short-term service to assist workers with treatment co-ordination, mental health support and goal setting prior to commencing a return to work. In this role, I am also head of the Social Committee which involves organizing social events such as the Christmas Party, Team Building, BBQ's for a team of 100.

• Managing a range of physical and secondary psychological injuries
• Relationship management skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Goal-setting and treatment co-ordination
• Providing clear communication and support throughout the return to work process to all stakeholders
• Assist employers and workers to navigate the return to work and claim process
• Liaise with treating medical practitioners
• Assess the workplace, and identify suitable duties that are safe for the injury
• Drafting return to work plans and proposals and completing reports
• Identify and overcome any barriers to return to work
• Complete ergonomic assessments and provide recommendations to employers
• Event organisation, co-ordination, budgeting, liaising with vendors, marketing events

A general musculoskeletal clinic, with a large focus on sports.

• Treat and rehabilitate a wide range of clientele, from athletes to NDIS/Worksafe/TAC clients, to pre/postnatal clients
• Head physiotherapist for the Kew Women's Football teams, including in-clinic rehabilitation and on-field care.
• Supervising physio of Scotch College's premier soccer team
• Working with Monash University for their study of concussion in community-level sport using HIT-IQ technology
• Run small group reformer pilates sessions
• Actively involved in business development
• Provide clientele with comprehensive rehabilitation programs to be completed in our high performance gym
• Using VALD force-decks and force-frames
• Creating and delivering treatment maps for clients

A multi-disciplinary clinic with a large focus on pilates and pre and postnatal care.

• Teach reformer pilates, mat pilates, mum's and bub's reformer, clinical exercise and prenatal pilates classes
• Managed acute and chronic conditions with clinical exercise with a range of complex therapy needs
• Assessed and made individualized programmes for oncoming clinical and prenatal pilates clients
• Working with a range of NDIS/Worksafe/TAC/TCA clientele for hands-on and therapeutic exercise programmes
• Implemented return to running programmes for postnatal women
• Working and communicating within a multidisciplinary team and working closely with important referrers

A private practise musculoskeletal clinic, with a large portion of rugby playing clients

• Assessment, treatment, rehabilitation of musculoskeletal and sports injuries.
• Liaising with coaching staff, management and team medical staff regarding return to play plans and guidelines
• Working with a large range of ACC clients, which included submitting claims, use of outcome measures and liaising with ACC and employers around return to work programmes.
• Use of manipulative and manual therapy techniques
• Working with the New Zealand Rugby Union for the implementation of their concussion pilot programme
• Working as team physio for rugby teams, attending trainings and games, acute management of injuries, assessment and rehabilitation
• Working in hospital level care/aged care facilities, visiting residents, assisting with or implementing rehabilitation and exercise programmes.
• Working with Hukarere Girls High-school running a school clinic
• Assisting with supervision of physiotherapy students
• Travelling with sports teams inter-state, and being responsible for all equipment and wellbeing of players