Birmingham and Solihull LETC - Council Members

Birmingham and Solihull LETC - Council Members

Council Members Tracy Taylor- Chair is chief executive of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, which provides more than 130 community and specialist healthcare services across Birmingham and the West Midlands. It is one of the largest community healthcare providers in England, with around 5,000 staff working in people s homes, clinics and hospitals, and delivering more than two million patient interactions each year. Services are provided for people of all ages, from childhood and throughout adult life. The organisation, which has 11,000 public members, also manages healthcare facilities which include Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham Dental Hospital and the West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre. Louise Stewart is LETC Lead for Birmingham and Solihull LETC. Louise trained as a diagnostic radiographer, entering the NHS in 1992. Following a move from the North West, she became a specialist paediatric sonographer before embarking upon clinical research and regional managerial roles. She joined NHS West Midlands Workforce Deanery in 2008 as a Workforce Specialist in Planned Care, undertaking work around Modernising Scientific Careers and the diagnostic workforce prior to the move to Health Education West Midlands. Louise is the Interim LETC lead for Birmingham and Solihull Local Education and Training Council (BS LETC). This role involves working between HEWM and the LETC Chair and members to lead the strategic development of local priorities and ensure the LETC plays an active role in Health Education West Midland s core activities of workforce planning and education commissioning. Louise is also part-time Workforce Development Specialist for the LETC (working with Julian Mellor). This role involves working closely with HEWM and LETC members and portfolio leads for the operational delivery of HEWM and LETC objectives in conjunction with the development of an effective provider-led system. Key deliverables include developing the LETC s contribution to the regional 5 year Skills and Development Strategy and working to create effective working partnerships to enable the workforce to deliver high quality care. Julian Mellor is Interim LETC Programme Support and Programme Manager for the Older Adults Workforce Integration Programme at Birmingham and Solihull LETC. He has extensive experience of management in adult social care, as well as leading corporate workforce planning and children s workforce development. Julian s main focus is on collaborative working across, health, social care and the independent sector. He has delivered a wide of innovative projects and initiatives in close collaboration with NHS services, Skills for Care and other agencies, regularly contributing to national workshops and regional showcase events. Having recently developed expertise as lead on policy and quality in care services, Julian is very much aware of the current challenges in developing a workforce that can deliver person-centred, integrated services. Theresa Nelson is Chief Officer for Workforce Development at Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Theresa joined the NHS in 2003 following a long career with Marks and Spencer. She has worked in a number of hospitals around the region including

large university hospitals. She has held several senior HR and Organisational Development roles and has always had a keen interest in developing leadership capacity. This led her to a national role as Lead for Clinical Leadership at the Department of Health and she continues to champion clinical leadership through her regional lead role for the Local Education and Training Board. Theresa is passionate about workforce development and getting the best out of people through staff engagement, culture development and coaching. Sue Hartley is Executive Director of Nursing at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. Sue has a strong background in nursing, performance management and service redesign. She is a registered nurse and trained in Birmingham at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Sue has held various nursing and management posts and has worked in a number of senior management positions including Deputy Head of Performance at the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority. Sue has a passion for nursing and allied health professional (AHP) leadership, with a focus on the quality of care and experience given to service users and their carers. Neil Savage is Chief Operating Officer at Birmingham Women's Hospital. Neil completed a BA(Hons) degree in Business Studies, majoring in Personnel and Industrial Relations, at Greenwich University, London. He worked for International Computers Limited and ASLEF prior to joining the NHS in 1992. He has worked across a range of acute, primary care, mental health and learning disability services; and is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Neil joined the Trust as Director of Workforce and Organisational Development in October 2008; he took up the new role of Chief Operating Officer in April 2012. Professor Ian Blair is Executive Dean in the Faculty of Health Education and Life Sciences at Birmingham City University. He is responsible for Strategic leadership and management of the Faculty - academic leadership, budget, human resources, executive management. Ian is also Stakeholder governor at Birmingham Children s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Brian Carr has been chief executive of Birmingham Voluntary Service Council since 2005. BVSC is the city s premier voluntary sector support organisation, championing volunteering for the benefit of local people and providing business development support and networking opportunities to the full range of the city s community and voluntary groups. Professor Kate Thomas is the Vice Dean of Medicine and the Programme Director for the medicine degree at the University of Birmingham. She is also a GP in Sutton Coldfield. David Holmes is the Director of HR at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, a post he has held since March, 2012. HE is also HPMA Vice President (West Midlands)

David is the LETC portfolio lead for Workforce Planning and sponsors/chairs the Older Adults Workforce Integration Programme Board. Louise Banks is Head of Educaiton at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. After qualifying as a registered nurse in Birmingham, a passion for education has resulted in a career spent in both clinical practice and a wide variety of education and development posts. I have been in my current post as Head of Education at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust for 18 months with the responsibility for the development and delivery of multi-disciplinary education across over 8000 staff and students in medical and non-medical undergraduate education. I am currently the education commissioning and quality portfolio lead for the Birmingham LETC. Dr Nick Harding (MB ChB BSc FRCGP MFMLM HonMFPH DRCOG DOccMed PGDIP(Cardiology)) Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG. Dr Nick Harding has worked as a GP in inner city Birmingham for over 15 years, qualifying in medicine in 1994 (University of Birmingham). He is Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group, which unusually crosses two local authority boundaries and won Health Service Journal CCG of the Year 2013. A committed medical educator, running a teaching practice, Dr Harding has been an RCGP examiner and trainer for many years assessing national standards for general practice. He is also Medical Advisor to Health Education England s Medical Advisory Group looking at workforce issues and a member of the Nuffield Leadership Panel. He is currently Co- Chairing the NHS England taskforce for commissioning specialised services in England. His regional roles include being a member of West Midlands Clinical Senate, Local Education Training Committee and Home Office appointed role for Birmingham Crematorium since 1999. Nick has particular specialist interests in cardiology and stroke, leading regional reconfiguration of stroke services as well as occupational health. He is GP lead and a founding Partner in Vitality Partnership, which brings together 13 practices for over 60,000 patients. This new type of Super Partnership primary care model was praised in the 2013 review of primary care by Kings Fund & Nuffield Trust. Working in partnership with a digital partner, early this year they were awarded the Prime Minister s Innovation Funding to drive forward increased access for inner city Birmingham through a range of ways including increased use of technology in healthcare. Outside of working hours, Nick has been involved in a project delivering Health education in Malawi. Anne Cholmondeley is HR Director at Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and was appointed to the Trust in September 2009. Anne is a former Head of HR with 18 years of experience in HR in the private and public sectors and has had 3 years experience as Head of HR and Acting HR Director in Foundation Trusts prior to appointment. Anne's qualifications include an MA in HR Development and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Phil Bright is currently the Director of Medical Education at Heart of England NHS FT and Head Postgraduate School of Medicine for HEWM. Dr Bright is a respiratory physician and was previously the Clinical Tutor at HEFT overseeing the setup of the Foundation Programme and Head of the Birmingham Foundation School. Adrian Phillips is Director of Public Health at Birmingham City Council and qualified in medicine from Birmingham University in 1985. I spent my formative years in acute hospital medicine, treating many avoidable illnesses, especially coronary heart disease, lung cancer and chronic lung diseases. Then I specialised in population medicine and completed my training in public health in 1997. I was appointed Joint Director of Public Health at Wolverhampton in 2000. I moved back to Birmingham in October 2012, again as Director of Public Health. My main public health interests are the interplay between public health and regeneration, the start to life and how we can best use intelligence until it hurts. I am interested in applying business quality principles within public services, including those derived from industry. Public health improvement will partly come from applying evidence in large-scale, industrial interventions we can learn much from industry in the systematic application of such interventions. Lynda Austin is a Leadership Consultant at Health Education West Midlands Sarah Copley is LETC Lead for Birmingham and Solihull LETC at Health Education West Midlands Dr Bill Strange is a GP at Hall Green Health Centre Kim Sales is Associate Director of Workforce and Educational Development at Birmingham Womens Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Nichola Seare is Director at Aston Health Research and Innovation Cluster at Aston University Karen Deeney is Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality at Birmingham, Solihull and Black Country Area Team

Stephen Munday is Director of Public Health and Commissioning at Solihull Council