q What is your job title and what does your role entail? a Environmental Manager, which involves ensuring the Trust remains compliant with all environmental, energy, waste & climate change legislation and sustainability good practice. My role involves working to reduce energy consumption, promote ‘green’ technologies and working practices and reduce or eliminate waste. I also work to maintain our Carbon Saver Gold Standard (which we were very pleased to be awarded last year) and our ISO 14001 accredited Environmental Management System. q How long have you been with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust? a I will be celebrating my second anniversary with the Trust in September this year. q What do you see as your priorities for Nottinghamshire Healthcare? a My main priority is working to ensure that the Trust becomes a truly sustainable healthcare organisation, and that for future generations we are able to offer our current range of services without damaging the environment that is essential for our wellbeing. q What is your employment background? a Now that I think about it quite varied! Having worked as a lifeguard, jewellery retailer & car park security attendant, my degree qualifications are as a geologist with a research interest in climate science and palaeontology. Post graduation I was employed by BP as a palaeo-climatologist establishing a working deep-time climate model. For the NHS I have worked for ‘Service Change & Improvement’ in a large acute Trust as a project/programme manager before moving to my current position for Nottinghamshire Healthcare. q What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given? a That “no one can give you better advice than yourself”. q What was the last CD you bought? a ‘Back through time’ by Alestorm. q What is your greatest achievement? a Being one of the youngest people to
qualify as a practitioner of MSP OGC Programme Management.
q What makes you angry? a Criminals, especially those who keep
stealing pieces of my car!
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This month we quiz Environmental Manager Stephen Lee
q What are you most passionate about? a Motorsports and vehicle mechanics, I especially enjoy taking my car apart and putting her back together again when time allows.
q What is your favourite holiday destination? a I have always enjoyed the holidays I have been on to south East Asia and would have to say Malaysia and Thailand have been my favourite destinations so far.
q What single thing would improve your working life at Nottinghamshire Healthcare? a AA rated double glazing for the windows to improve the thermal efficiency of our office.
q Who would you take to a desert island? a Patrick Stewart, I believe we would get on very well re-enacting Star Trek the Next Generation and X-Men until the food and water ran out.
q What is your favourite hobby? a Games Workshop’s ‘Warhammer
q Where do you see yourself in 10 years’ time? a Hopefully able to look back on the plans for improving environmental performance and reducing carbon that we are working on now and being able to say ‘we have achieved and done even better than we imagined’.
40,000’, having been a collector for a shameful 18 years, but also Jiujutsu, Ninjitsu and vehicle mechanics.
q What keeps you awake at night? a Mostly the noise of people breaking
into my car.
q What is your favourite film? a It varies, but at the moment ‘V for
Vendetta’.
q What is your idea of bliss? a A 1969 Pontiac GTO (modified to run
on renewable fuel), a large workshop and a fridge full of Corona.
q What three words would you use to describe yourself? a Prince of Cats.
q Do you have a ‘claim to fame’? a I once attended an international
martial arts competition where one of the combatants was Stephen Seagal – a truly terrifying but enjoyable experience.
q How would you like to be remembered? a Something along the lines of Mount Rushmore would be very satisfying to the geologist in me, but cause a lot of conflict with my environmental and sustainability principles.
Learning and Development Prospectus Online The electronic version of the Learning and Development Prospectus 2012-13 is now available online for all staff. Offering courses in the areas of Essential Training, Therapeutic Skills, Skills for Work and Life and Leadership and Management Development, it can be found on the Trust, County Health Partnerships and Bassetlaw Health Partnerships Intranet sites.
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