Experience

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Public Governor

  • Apr 2018 - Present



Optimum Solutions Consultancy Ltd

• midlands

• Managing Director

  • Aug 2014 - Present

  knowledge,skills and experience: - transformational operational services management - leadership and people management - clinical leadership and development - skill mix review- service modelling and redesign - new role development and portfolio development - workforce planning and development, including safer staffing, hard truths reporting - establishment of systematic workforce reporting and board assurance development - programme - competency framework development - performance management - risk and issue management -education commissioning, development and delivery and controls assurance - budget management - organisational development - coaching and mentoring - relationship management



Erewash CCG

• Erewash CCG, Toll Bar House, Ilkeston , Derbyshire

• MCP Programme Lead

  • Oct 2016 - May 2017

  undertaking the role of MCP programme Lead with as its main function support to the MCP`s Vanguard in developing and implementing its New Care Model, recording progress in the development of the care model, including delivery of the milestones with released transformation funding, recording and collating the learning from the Vanguard undertaking a refresh of the Value proposition document and its subsequent re submission including financial and delivery plan, activity analysis and quality review with a robust implementation matrix.. undertaking this key leadership role in the development of the emerging care model as well as developing the key strategic direction for the MCP through the senior management team, ensuring the operational delivery of the model and escalating challenges and concerns, ensuring review of progress of each element of the delivery plan, spend against transformation funding, support required and products for sharing across the national vanguards. taking the lead role in the operation of and development of a monitoring framework/performance dashboard of activities and outcomes, governance and management of cross work stream and external dependencies and programme level risks and issues , building a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to enable strong transformation delivery raising awareness of the support available in both analytical review and model design, communicating developments and seeking local co-production. responsible for ensuring the programme as a whole is `on track` to deliver all the areas agreed within the MCP Value proposition.



Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • Oct 2014 - Jul 2016

  independent consultant input in supporting the trust with its transformation of community based services and its strategy for integration independent consultant input in supporting the trust with its transformation of community based services and its strategy for integration



NHS England

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Strategic Account Manager, New Models of Care, Multi speciality community provider

  • Jul 2015 - Mar 2016

  working with the New Care Models Team ( multi speciality community provider) vanguard sites. supporting sites with the development of their new models of care, value propositions and operational milestones. working with the New Care Models Team ( multi speciality community provider) vanguard sites. supporting sites with the development of their new models of care, value propositions and operational milestones.



Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS trust

• Derbyshire wide

• Workforce Transformation Lead

  • Apr 2012 - Aug 2014

  Responsible for the effective workforce transformation of a large community trust and effective workforce planning to align to the emerging new models of care delivery. effective reporting and monitoring of workforce plans which included the safer staffing/hard truths reporting to the NTDA. responsible for the workforce education and development of a large complex community trust ensuring the trust met its performance trajectory against essential learning and individual learning and development plans .ensuring the appropriate resources were available to provide a blended learning approach to clinical and non clinical staff, introducing new ways of learning ie skills lab, e learning, DVDs. supporting the fundamentals in care approach to clinical development of the non registered staff. undertaking rapid assessment of clinical/leadership/managerial skill in response to identified issues or risk supporting bespoke development programmes for service areas supporting the strategic workforce group in initiatives across partners in developing both workforce planning and education. playing an active role in the LETB/LETC initiatives across the east midlands



Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

• Assistant Director Integrated Community Based Services

  • 2009 - 2012

  responsible for the operational and budgetary management across inpatient care in 12 community hospitals and an inpatient learning disability unity and across 96 community teams including nursing and therapy staff. responsible for the management of medical practitioners covering these services.the portfolio of services included the management of appx 3000 staff working across general care of the elderly and rehabilitation wards, older peoples mental health inpatient wards, learning disability inpatient services, Minor injury services, community nursing, specialist nursing teams, community therapy teams, medical practitioners.responsible for the planning and delivery of a large scale transformation programme across the county servicessuccessfully led on the introduction of the SPA , single point of access approach in partnership with acute and social care colleaguesworked on the national initiative - transforming community services

• Head of Urgent Care

  • 2006 - 2009

  responsible for the operational and budgetary management of inpatient services across 12 community hospitals.successfully supporting the merger of 6 former PCTs into one county wide service.successfully supporting new and innovative service provision across the county wide provision.successfully led on the implementation of JONAH (effective discharge planning) resulting in dramatically improving the average length of stay within community hospitals.worked on the national initiative- care closer to home



Derbyshire County PCT

• Southern Derbyshire

• Deputy Director of Clinical services

  • 2004 - 2006

  responsible for the operational and budgetary management of services across the south Derbyshire locality. the portfolio included the management of 5 community hospitals and community services teams which included the following services, inpatient care, Diagnostic and treatment centre ( theatres) Minor injury services, outpatient services, community nursing and therapy services and management of health centres. successfully led on the initiative on orthopaeadic waiting list working with overseas teams from south Africa and managing the provision of orthopaedic surgery at Ilkeston community hospital. successfully acted as lead clinician on the new build programmes for st Oswalds Hospital in Ashbourne and the provision of a new health centre in long eaton successfully led on the bid for funds to develop a second wave DTC and new ward build at Ilkeston Community Hospital



Erewash PCT

• Assistant Director/Deputy Director of Nursing

  • 2002 - 2004

  responsible for the operational and budgetary management of all nursing services across the PCT which included both inpatient, planned care, Minor injuries, theatres and community nursing services. successfully introduced the advanced nurse practitioner role into community services which then led to the community matron role successfully led on the Optimum project looking at caseload management and assessment was the Professional Executive Committee nurse representative was the senior nurse representative on the Derbyshire Service Improvement and Leadership Board. successfully introduced the role of Clinical Practice Facilitator into inpatient services worked on national initiatives on reforming emergency care



Southern Derbyshire Community Health Services

• Modern matron and Emergency Nurse practitioner

  • 1999 - 2002

  Operational and budgetary management of Minor Injuries service, theatres and outpatient services

• Sister/ Emergency Nurse practitioner

  • 1992 - 1999

  sister in charge and emergency Nurse practitioner within the Minor injuries servicechair of the RCN Emergency Nurse Practitioner Special Interest Group



Dewsbury General Hospital, Sherwood Forest Hospital

• west yorkshire and nottinghamshire

• staff nurse, sister and senior sister posts

  • 1980 - 1992

  during this period I worked within Accident and Emergency services in west Yorkshire prior to relocating to Derbyshire. responsibilities were as a clinician as well as the overall management of accident and emergency services in large acute A/E services during this period I worked within Accident and Emergency services in west Yorkshire prior to relocating to Derbyshire. responsibilities were as a clinician as well as the overall management of accident and emergency services in large acute A/E services