{"id":5884,"date":"2022-10-20T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hearthaustralia.com.au\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2022-10-20T08:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:17:34","slug":"reece-adams-appointed-manager-of-occupational-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hearthaustralia.com.au\/reece-adams-appointed-manager-of-occupational-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reece Adams Appointed Manager of Occupational Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I am very happy to announce that Reece Adams has joined Hearth Allied Health<\/a> in the role of Manager, Occupational Therapy, Research and Innovation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We feel truly fortunate to have attracted Reece to the team as he comes with almost 20 years\u2019 worth of experience working in the Disability sector.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reece is a longstanding advocate for people with disabilities and comes to us directly from Monash Health<\/a> where he held the role of Head of the Centre for Developmental Disability Health<\/a> and was pivotal in innovating ways people with disabilities could access healthcare, including supporting our most vulnerable community members with disabilities to receive their COVID-19 and other vaccinations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Beginning his career as a Disability Support Worker with Yooralla<\/a>, Reece has continued working with people with Disabilities in various capacities including Occupational Therapist, Researcher and Head of a state-wide health service for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reece Adams<\/em> completed his Bachelor of Occupational Therapy Sciences at Deakin University<\/a> in 2006, and completed his postgraduate Honours Research at Monash University<\/a> in 2016 studying the Wheelchair and Seating Assessment process<\/a> for adults with Developmental Disabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reece\u2019s work experience includes community-based services for people with disabilities including vision impairment, neurological conditions, and complex developmental disabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Continuing his career into research, Reece found an increased passion for evidence-based practice and innovation, and through his work, reduced the average 17-year gap of knowledge translation from research to practice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This was achieved with development of the soon to be launched National My Lived iD<\/a> online hub for intellectual disability and mental wellbeing, which was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care<\/a>, and was inspired by a sector consultation on service and information access during the early part of the pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, Reece Adams developed and lead the research of the use of a multi-tiered support model to enable general healthcare access for people with intellectual and\/or developmental disabilities, which proved particularly successful enabling individuals to access their COVID-19 vaccinations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nCareer pathway<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
My Lived iD online hub for intellectual disability and mental wellbeing<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Multi-tiered support model<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Head of the Centre for Developmental Disability Health<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n