Frances Badenhorst

Frances has over 20 years experience working in the community as an NHS Children’s Occupational Therapist in Barts Health NHS trust. She manages and leads a multiprofessional therapy team who support children with developmental or medical conditions.

Since 2014, she has been the clinical lead for the Barts Health Community Children’s Service in Tower Hamlets, London. She has a particular interest in using coaching with families and children to achieve their goals.

For the past 10 years she has been setting up, working in, and evaluating an innovative trans-disciplinary team supporting families with children who are under the age of 5 and have complex developmental disabilities. This work has expanded to a new team of therapists supporting child with social communication differences, using routines-based family-centred intervention and coaching.