Biography

A director and facilitator, who has developed a career with a breadth and depth of experience across the nursing profession, gained through clinical expertise, professional leadership, marketing, employment relations and team development roles. A strong leader, who is passionate about the development of others and who has outstanding leadership and communication skills, evidenced in current role as Regional Director with RCN West Midlands KEY SKILLS SUMMARY Technical expertise • A reputation for being an expert in the development of nursing skill mix • Negotiated two major contracts to develop resources for WiPPs HCA and GPN Initiatives Leading Change • Conceived and introduced the Cultural Ambassador role to address inequalities with BME career development and employment relations practice • Innovated the development of General Practice Nursing (GPN) Career Framework • Set out a vision for the role of the HCA in general practice and led implementation at local level Project management • Conceived and lead the Local Learning Event programme to engage and offer professional development to nursing staff • Led the development of the WiPP HCA webbased toolkit to time and within budget (£540k) • Managed and delivered successful large scale national conferences; including conference content, marketing, logistics and delegate resources • PRINCE 2 practitioner Strong leadership skills • Manage a team that reported a 92% engagement score in 2013 • Recognised national Champion for HCAs and have had regular column in national HCA journal • Highly engaging personal delivery, inspiring others to achieve common goals • NLP Practitioner High-level communication skills • Experienced and skilled public speaker including taking part in national Q&A panels • Facilitated complex team development work within NHS organisations • Managed complex stakeholder relations to achieve desired goals • Facilitate action learning sets as part of team development programmers

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Research Interest

Experienced and skilled public speaker including taking part in national Q&A panels