After graduating from Charles Sturt University in NSW, Sarena began her career with an occupational rehabilitation role for youth with brain injuries then spent several years in acute and rehabilitative rotational positions across Victorian hospitals. Shortly after she travelled to the UK and for many years, worked across London and regional areas in general acute, geriatric, cardiac rehabilitation, complex neurological rehabilitation, acquired brain injury, rapid response, intermediate care and community health / social services positions. In between, upon short visits home to Australia, she worked in transition care and community rehabilitation positions, before finally settling on the Sunshine Coast. There she has worked across in-patient rehab, out-patient rehab and leadership roles for the last twelve years. Upon returning from an extended period of maternity leave and having two beautiful and very busy children, she has enjoyed a steep learning curve in founding Allied Health Support Services in early 2016. In 2017, she successfully co-created an accessible virtual professional development platform for health professionals. In early 2018, however, her vision of creating a national event to both bring together and celebrate, allied health professionals all over the country, finally became a reality, in the Australian Allied Health Awards.
Sarena is passionate about supporting, linking and celebrating health professionals. Sarena has 18 years experience in supporting, mentoring and clinically supervising allied health assistants, occupational therapists and interdisciplinary young therapists. She is a member of the Australian Clinical Supervision Association and has been accepted to co-present papers on peer supervision and interdisciplinary supervision at the next ACSA conference in 2021.
Rate: $100-150 / hr
