Key experience

* Consultant and researcher on public sector professional development and service improvement projects

* Research supervisor to managers and professionals researching their practice

* Head of University Department

 Education and professional status

* Doctorate in  Professional Development and  Action Learning

* Certificate in Further and Higher Education Management

* Certificate in Education

* Masters in Cancer Research

* Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

* Editorial board member of  international practice-based journal

* Advisor to Swedish educational community

* Advisor to Sustainable Consumption Institute learning in the workplace project

 Consultancy Experience

* Associate consultant with MIAD  - facilitation, consultancy & research for professional & organisational development, principally for NHS 

* Modernising  Services – Facilitator & evaluator in N.W. for Department of Health funded National Pathology Project (ref. Acting for change: transforming pathology services through action learning - DH, Pathology Modernisation  2008)

* Service Improvement – Facilitator & evaluator for National DH funded projects implementing Renal NSF Phases I & II  - Gr. Manchester, York, & Birmingham. Themes: patient-centred care, collaborative learning, partnership working across professional, organisational & sector boundaries. (refs. Driving Service Improvement through Patient Focus - DH 2008)

* Evaluation of practice- An internal evaluator for  NHS Modernisation Agency National Primary Care Trust  transformational change programme, a facilitator of set facilitators

* Making Joint Posts Work – Action Learning for Directors of Public Health 2005

* Changing Services – Developing Principal Care Managers (Adult Services) Bradford Social Services 2004

* Professional Development for NHS Managers,   Institute of Health Care Managers (North West Region), 2002/3

* Cross-institutional university senior management development– Higher Education Staff Development Association national pilot project. Member of implementation and evaluation team  (ref. HESDA Briefing paper 103, 2002).

* NW Deanery, Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Dentistry, Uni. of Manchester, 2001/2 Leadership Development for Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, Professional development for Consultant Clinical Tutors with an educational role.

 Specialisations

* Action learning advising, facilitating and research – in depth and extensive experience and understanding of this learning methodology.

* Service improvement support – successfully designed, facilitated, evaluated and presented on many professional/service/organisational development projects.

* Evaluation – ability to observe patterns, make connections and bring to light previously unacknowledged processes and factors from emergent group-based activities.

* Qualitative practitioner-based research - Successfully supervised a range of managers and professionals researching their practice during a period of turbulence and uncertainty. 

Career experience

*25 years knowledge and experience of Further and Higher Education – teaching, assessing, curriculum development, curriculum innovation, quality assessment, peer review panels, external examining, research supervision and examining.

*Proven track record of successful educational leadership in complex and challenging change situations. 

*Innovative and collaborative response to market conditions.

*Long term partnership working with colleagues operating in Health and Social Care  sector and experience of working with diverse range of practitioners, managers and users of services.

*Voluntary  tutor  for local ESOL programme for  women.

 Key abilities

* Excellent analytical skills

* Wide range of written and verbal  communication skills e.g. reports, articles, learning materials, formal presentations, workshops, small group facilitation and one-to-one coaching

* Excellent listening and questioning skills

* Good organisational skills developed through large educational programme development and delivery, departmental management, and project consultation.

* Computer literate