Andrea Tipper

• Cerebral Palsy
• Challenging Behaviour
• Continuing Care Health Funding
• Managing care teams for children and young people
• Multi-disciplinary working
• Sleep advisor
• Work with children with a range of complex health needs
• Working with parents and siblings

• Empathetic and knowledgeable
• Strong advocate for children and their families
• Dynamic with strong communication skills
• Managing effective therapy and support packages
• Defining clear goals and outcome reporting
• Team working
• Clear concise reports
• Organised and efficient
• Support and education for families and carers

I qualified as a paediatric nurse in 1997 and later as a health visitor in 2000 and have predominantly worked with disabled children and their families since then in a variety of acute and community settings.

I am a motivated advocate able to empathise with clients and their families. The child and family are paramount to everything I do and I strive to ensure they are fully supported, physically, emotionally and psychologically.

During my career in paediatric nursing and community complex care services, I have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience working with children with complex medical and healthcare needs. This has included liaising and working alongside multiple agencies across health, social care, education and tertiary care developing excellent professional relationships and a thorough understanding of how care works within the community setting as well as working with children and families in hospital and at home following illness, injury and trauma.

I am adept in completing thorough assessments, writing and implementing individualised care plans and have vast experience in organising and implementing  care packages.  I feel priviledged to have worked with numerous families who have a child with complex needs and am delighted to be using all this experience in my role as a paediatric Case Manager for ILS.

August 2022 to January 2023

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust –  Children’s Continuing Care Nurse Assessor

Manage a caseload of 34 complex children receiving continuing care packages

January 2011 – August 2022

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust – Specialist Health Visitor Disabilities

Manage a caseload of children and families with complex needs undertaking appropriate assessment, intervention and evaluation through programmes of care and support to meet needs.

September 1997 to September 1999

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust – Children’s Nurse – neonatal ward

• Registered Practitioner, British Association of Brain Injury and Complex Case Management (BABICM)
• Registered nurse with the NMC

Andrea is committed to maintaining her skills and abilities and engages readily in varied training supported by ILS Case Management which includes the following areas:

• Capacity and Consent
• Safeguarding Training
• Recruitment and Employment
• Litigation
• Management of Risk
• Moving and Handling
• GDPR