Jane Hamer

Jane Hamer is a paediatric physiotherapist and also the Clinical Leader of Paediatric Physiotherapy (part-time), for Te Whatu Ora Waitematā (West Auckland and North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand). She has worked with children for 30+years, primarily in Child Development Teams, but also in the private and education sector, and in NICU, and on the local acute paediatric medical ward. Her passion is supporting children with complex disability, and their families. She graduated with a Masters of Health Science from Otago University in 2023, exploring caregivers experience of implementing sleep systems for their children. She is currently working on a co-design partnership project with families, to implement the research findings into practice.