Frances has worked extensively with children and young people aged 0 - 25 with complex medical and developmental needs and their families in a range of clinical settings over her career.  Her valuable 17 years of NHS clinical and management experience directly led to her setting up Therapy Links UK CIC in 2018, out of a passion to be able to provide flexible needs-led support for families struggling to access what they needed.

Clinically Frances has worked in mainstream and special schools, specialist colleges, Autism Outreach Services and in the community with babies and children struggling with a wide variety of eating, drinking and swallowing challenges.   Her extensive post-graduate clinical training includes clinical approaches such as Talking Mats, Intensive Intearction, SOS (Sequential-Oral-Sensory) Therapy, Attention Autism, Makaton and Elklan.

From a leadership perspective, Frances has held numerous strategic management positions to include management of special schools and early years SLT services, management of a multi-disciplinary community dysphagia (eating, drinking and swallowing) service, and Professional Management of a large NHS Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service.  She has a proven track record of designing and implementing effective service change, ranging from the development and review of clinical carepathways, to service wide re-design projects. She continues to offer service consultation to schools and therapy services wanting to transform their offer and ensure the most effective impact for their children. 

With a truly collaborative approach to all aspects of her work, and a focus on equity, inclusivity, outcomes and impact, Frances supports outstanding therapy provision in school settings, builds respectful, trusting relationships with parents and staff and has established a team that puts quality at its core. 

Frances is a firm believer that with the right attitude, anything is possible.