Rebecca Dawber - Rebecca is the Trust’s Assistant Director for Physical Healthcare and Infection Prevention and has been the physical health and wellbeing lead for GMW for a number of years having moved in 2011 from her clinical post as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the Trusts Alcohol and Drugs Directorate. Rebecca’s passion for mental health services started over 12 years ago when she was a Staff Nurse at the Royal Bolton Hospital A&E Department. Following this she held a number of nursing posts within GMW’s Alcohol and Drugs Directorate and went on to complete a Masters degree in Advanced Nursing Practice. In January 2008, she graduated with Distinction from Salford University and moved on to successfully complete the Non-medical Prescribing programme at Bolton University. As a Registered General Nurse she works closely with both the medical and nursing teams across the 6 clinical directorates of GMW, driving forward the physical health and Infection Prevention agendas whilst also acting in a specialist clinical and advisory capacity. In 2009, she was the winner of the Nursing Times Award for mental health and was nationally recognised for her work in developing a liver screening pathway for service users with alcoholic liver disease. More recently in 2012, she was awarded a clinical fellowship with the NHS Leadership Academy and has recently completed a project which will improve access to physical health care for users of mental health and substance misuse services. Rebecca is delighted to share her knowledge and expertise with the academy and is looking forward to hearing the lived experiences of both service users and staff. Gillian Drummond - Gillian is the Dementia Quality lead for GMW, her role is to support the clinical teams in the development and delivery of services and achieving best practice in line with national priorities across the whole dementia spectrum. She has been a Mental Health Nurse since 1985 and for the majority of her career has worked within dementia services across inpatient, community and day hospital settings. For six years, she worked as the Matron at Woodlands Hospital. Gillian has a BSc (HONS) in psychosocial treatments and she also has a keen interest in the delivery of training and completed a PGCE (Practice Educator) qualification in 2006. Paul French - Paul is Associate Director of Early Intervention services and the Psychosis Research Unit at GMW and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. His background is in mental health nursing and he completed his PhD at the University of Manchester in 2007. He was an investigator on the recently published EDIE trial of CBT in At Risk Mental States, and is co-investigator on several grants examining psychosocial treatments for psychosis. Teresa Grogan - Teresa is the Deputy Matron for Salford services and has a BSc (Hons) degree in Applied Psychology, gained midway through her nursing career. She started a PGCE to teach Science to 7-16 year olds but was unable to continue due to family commitments. Hence she has been an RMN for 31 years, having initially started working with young people on probation and with homeless people in London. Members of Teresa’s family have experienced mental health difficulties, one to the extent of requiring inpatient services. She has worked with later life adults, adults of working age and even some adolescents whilst working with John Denmark at the Department of Psychiatry for the Deaf, Whittingham Hospital. She has worked in Burnley, Jersey, Manchester Mental Health, Environmental Health as well as those mentioned earlier. At times her philosophy is likened to that of Mr Micawber’s as in “something will turn up” depicts her optimistic outlook on life!
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