Katya Halsall is an Employment Expert, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant & Work Capacity Evaluator. She has over 20 years experience in vocational rehabilitation.
She uniquely uses a functional approach to comment on a Claimant’s capacity for work and their earnings potential. Matching a person’s known, reported and objectively evaluated functional abilities and limitations to the functional demands of specific jobs enables her to identify suitable occupations. This functional approach forms the core of her argument about what type of work a Claimant can and cannot do. In turn, this approach then enables her to present an evidence-based opinion about a Claimant’s earning potential, based on their capacity for work.
Because of its objective nature, this evidence-based approach to employment reports can help to bridge the gap between what the Claimant and the Defendant respectively think is the Claimant’s true capacity for work.