South West Essex

Service Manager

Corey qualified with a BSc (hons) in Physiotherapy in 2013 from the University of Hertfordshire. Corey has been fortunate enough to work in high level sport including semi professional rugby and the London Marathon medical team. After qualifying, he completed his core rotations in the NHS as a junior Physiotherapist before taking a senior position in orthopaedics. Corey has previously worked in the private MSK sector in a specialist sports injuries clinic. He joined Connect in August of 2016 as a senior MSK Physiotherapist in the South West Essex (SWEx) MSK service before taking up a Team leader role in early 2018. He took a secondment role as Service Manager in the Herts Valley’s MSK service and was then appointed permanent service manager in April of 2019. Corey remained in this role as service manager until January 2022 when he took the opportunity to return to the SWEX service as service manager. Corey is passionate about service improvement and health promotion. He attempts to exercise at least 4 times a week.

Fun fact: Corey completed the Lands End – John O Groats cycle in 2016 over a 12 day period.

Team Lead

Hannah qualified as a Physiotherapist after studying at University of Brighton in 2006. Hannah completed her junior rotations at Southend hospital and then took up a senior role. Hannah has practiced Hand Therapy in both NHS and private hospital settings as has worked at Connect health for SWEX since 2015. Hannah currently works as a Hand Specialist Physiotherapist and sees predominantly conditions affecting the hand and wrist. Hannah has completed her injection therapy qualification and is a practising injection therapist. Hannah has completed a number of qualifications under the British Association of Hand Therapist (BAHT) to specialise her skills. Hannah currently works as a team Lead within Hand Therapy and is based at Brentwood Community Hospital. Outside of work I enjoy attending gym classes, running and playing Netball.

Specialist MSK physiotherapist and Team Leader

Sharon qualified from Pinderfields College of physiotherapy in 1994 with a BHSc in physiotherapy from Leeds University. After completing rotations at Queens medical Center in Nottingham and Old church Hospital Romford, she took up the opportunity to work within the private sector and began work at the Nuffield Hospital in Brentwood. Here she developed a broad-based knowledge of all MSK conditions formulating close relationships with consultants.  She did extensive training in Kinetic Control and developed an interest in Shoulders. After the birth of her 2 sons, she returned to the NHS on a part time basis and began her own physiotherapy company. After 12 years of this she returned to the NHS full time when the opportunity arose to join the Connect Health team in SWEX in 2015.

Sharon has been working as Team lead for Connect for the past 4 years.  Sharon manages a complex case of patients and has worked in all areas of the service, from face-to-face consultations, hand therapy, pain management and the rehab arm of the service.

Team Lead

Natalie qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2009 after studying at University of Hertfordshire. Natalie completed her Junior rotations at Basildon Hospital and then took up a senior role within MSK. Natalie has worked within the NHS and Private sector as a senior clinician in both Hand Therapy and MSK.

After joining Connect Health in 2016, Natalie now works as an Advanced Hand Therapy Practitioner / Team Lead in SWEX and sees predominantly conditions affecting the hand and wrist, although keeping up skills with other MSK patients when able. She has also completed several qualifications under the British Association of Hand Therapist (BAHT) to specialise her skills.

Natalie has dedicated time to completing her injection therapy qualification and is now a practising injection therapist.

Team Lead

Eleanor qualified as a physiotherapist from the University of East London in 2014. Since graduating she has worked mainly in the field of Occupational Health, providing onsite physiotherapy and workplace assessments for private and public sector clients at IPRS health.

She joined Connect Health as a Senior Physiotherapist in 2021 in order to experience a more challenging and varied clinical caseload. She became a Team Lead in June 2023.

Eleanor has a strong interest in lower limb rehab due to her being a keen club runner for over 20 years, competing in road and cross country events. She has completed courses in strength and conditioning and many rehab courses for lower/upper limb and spinal conditions. She is also interested in persistent pain disorders and attended the Cognitive Functional Therapy workshop for disabling back pain with Prof. Peter O’Sullivan to better support this patient population.

MSK Clinician Team Leader

Sarah worked within the private sector for Spire healthcare before joining Connect Health in 2018 as the first nursing member of South West Essex, where she has set up and leads the Osteoporosis treatment service.

Sarah is a Professional Nurse Advocate leading and supporting nurses in practice and was recently appointed MSK team leader in October 2023 (the first nurse to be in a team leader role across the organisation).

Sarah has also been involved in the wider expansion of the Denosumab service including working closer with partners across the local trust and voluntary sector”

Joint Clinical delivery lead

Cherrelle graduated from the University of Essex with a qualification in pre-registration Physiotherapy MSc in 2011. She initially completed a degree in Sports Therapy in 2009 at London Metropolitan University but soon realised that she wanted to work within the NHS and broaden her approach to that outside of sport.

She went on to complete her core rotations at Southend University Hospital, where she progressed to specialist physiotherapist working in A+E and outpatient orthopaedic services up until 2017. Deciding she needed new challenges she worked at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust as a highly specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist, she led a dynamic team, maintained a varied and complex case load and developed a clinical supervision and CPD programme.

In 2019, she returned to Essex applying for a role within Connect’s South West Essex Community Assessment and Triage Service (CATS) as an advanced practice physiotherapist. In this time she progressed to team lead and became joint clinical delivery lead in 2022. She has completed post graduate modules including soft tissue and joint injection therapy and is keen to develop her post graduate knowledge with further study over the next few years. Cherrelle is part of the Mid and South Essex Musculoskeletal stewardship team which aims to improve patient experience and champion value based care for the region.

Advanced Practice Physiotherapist and joint Clinical Delivery Lead

Paul graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy in 2002. He started his career in the NHS and gained a good grounding as a junior physiotherapist in a wide variety of clinical settings. Since 2005 he has specialised in managing MSK conditions and gained his MSc in The Clinical Management of Pain from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He is also qualified to deliver soft tissue and joint injections.

Paul has a wide range of experience in both the private and public sectors. He has held several leadership roles and in 2024 joined the Team at South West Essex as joint Clinical Delivery Lead.

Paul is passionate about improving clinical quality in MSK care. Away from work he enjoys long runs and spending time with his young family.