Many of St Andrew’s clinical experts are regular speakers on the national conference circuit. We feature below the professional profiles of many of our clinicians available to present at conferences, workshop or network meetings.
Please email Helen Lee hvlee@standrew.co.uk for more information or if you have an event in mind which one of our clinical experts could contribute towards.
Chief Executive and Medical Director
Professor Philip Sugarman
Professor Sugarman is Chief Executive and Medical Director of St Andrew’s Healthcare, a leading mental health charity with secure services in Birmingham, Essex, Northampton and Nottinghamshire (2010), and employing over 3000 people. Its Northampton campus is the UK’s largest mental health facility, with national specialist services in mental health, learning disability, autism and brain injury, and a research and teaching centre in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Prof Sugarman is an experienced psychiatrist and healthcare executive, with interests across management and secure care. He lectures and publishes widely. Key projects include the development of the HoNOS-secure outcome tool, now a national standard measure.
Prof Sugarman is a past Royal Society of Medicine Prize winner, and has over 90 publications. Formerly Clinical Director of the Kent Forensic Psychiatry Service, NHS Regional Advisor and a Senior Lecturer at Guy's, he is currently a Trustee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the voluntary sector Mental Health Provider Forum, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, and visiting Professor at the University of Northampton.
Director of Healthcare
Dr Fiona Mason
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Prior to working at St Andrew’s Dr Mason was a Consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, where she was responsible for treating women with complex psychopathology and a history of traumatisation. She trained in General Psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and went on to specialise in Forensic Psychiatry working as a Senior Registrar at the Maudsley Hospital, subsequently becoming a Lecturer in Victimology and Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a member of the Medical Directors Executive.
Dr Mason has been involved in a number of service developments, both as an external and internal advisor and recognises the importance of effective team working in the delivery of high quality services. She led on the re-provision of services for women with a personality disorder diagnosis in her former role at Broadmoor Hospital and facilitated the re-provision of the Women’s Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare in Northampton, including the move to gender specific secure care for women and the successful commissioning, design and build of Smyth House.
Dr Mason won the Laing & Buisson Independent Healthcare Award for Innovation in 2010 and has developed innovative approaches to both psychiatric observations and medico-legal reporting.
Speciality Strategic Leads
Learning Disability
Colin Doyle
Clinical Service Development Manager
Colin has a background in the Learning Disability and Mental Health sector where he has worked for the last 29 years. His role and expertise have included the development of the Charity’s first bespoke Autistic Spectrum services for adults, as well as working the current projects related to the new services in Nottinghamshire and on the Northampton site. His professional background is nursing, where he qualified as a registered learning disability nurse in 1984. Colin has held various positions throughout his career, most recently as a Clinical Service Development Manager in the Men’s Service at St Andrew’s before moving into his now corporate role in clinical service development.
Over the past two and a half years his role has taken him into developing new services and business, contributing by leading the clinical design and its implications for service delivery and outcomes. He has been a leader in the Charity, delivering on the strategic development of new business projects including the Deaf Service for Men, St Andrew’s Healthcare Birmingham; St Andrew’s Healthcare Nottinghamshire and William Wake House Forensic MSU in Northampton, through the development of clinical and management practice.
Colin’s role has been central to the current and future development of a quality secure healthcare service within the Charity and as such continues to contribute to the positive reputation of the existing and future business. An important area of his role has been centred on aligning values and strategic objectives corporately through to team level; which translates as behaviours that support the objectives of the business. Colin prides himself on his continued commitment to the delivery of high quality services
Colin’s research interests include post traumatic stress disorder; performance measures and outcomes for forensic learning disability services and the relationships between culture leadership, management and personality.
Dr Elizabeth Beber
Learning Disability Strategic Lead and Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Beber is a Consultant Psychiatrist in our St Andrew’s Women’s Service in Northampton. After completing her higher psychiatric training, Dr Beber has concentrated on her interests in Forensic Learning Disability and currently works with adult females with offending histories who present with learning disabilities, autism and Aspergers syndrome. As a Strategic Lead for the charity, Dr Beber focuses on the vision and the direction for the charity’s Learning Disability strategies as well as actively contributing to research, training and service delivery.
Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Dr Jane Radley
Consultant in Learning Disability Psychiatry, Men’s Service
Jane worked at Northgate Hospital in Northumberland from 1997-2005 and while there developed an interest in Autistic Spectrum Disorders including Asperger’s Syndrome. She then worked at Milton Park Hospital in Bedfordshire, a specialist hospital for adolescents and adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders before joining St Andrew’s Healthcare in March 2008 to help set up Hereward Wake Ward.
Dr Huw Thomas
Consultant Psychiatrist, Men’s Service
Dr Thomas trained at Leicester Medical School graduating in1987 following which he spent some time working in general medicine before entering psychiatric training in South Wales in 1990. He became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1992 and completed an MSc at the University of Wales which included a dissertation on cannabis use in 1993. He spent a year as a researcher attached to a psychiatric unit in New Zealand, before returning to the UK in 1994 to complete his higher psychiatric training at Guy’s Hospital in London. Dr Thomas then went to New Zealand again to work as a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry for three years before returning to the UK. He left the NHS in 2004 for the Independent sector to work with adults with Learning Disabilities and in 2007 set up a specialist Medium Secure unit for men with Personality Disorders.
In 2009 Dr Thomas joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in Birmingham to set up a new specialist Low Secure service for men with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. He has published papers in the British Journal of Psychiatry, Drug and Alcohol Dependence and the British Journal of Learning Disabilities.
Adolescents
Dr Paul Monks
Consultant Psychiatrist, Adolescent service
Dr Monks works on our male adolescent medium secure admission ward and is also joint Strategic Lead for Adolescent Services at St Andrew's Healthcare. He has participated in numerous medical appointment panels during his time at the Charity.
In specialty training at The Maudsley, Paul undertook basic and higher specialty training in general psychiatry and then opted to return to higher specialty training in forensic psychiatry. This training incorporated periods of working in clinical academic posts and periods "acting up" as Consultant. His first full consultant post was a long term locum in community forensic psychiatry in south London
Young Adults
Dr Ash Roychowdhury
Consultant Forensic and General Adult Psychiatrist and the Medical Lead for Risk Management
Dr Roychowdhury’s key interests and activities include leading on the implementation of structured risk assessment tools within the organization, research into START, the development of safety standards and indicators within organizations, and thematic analysis of learning from untoward incidents.
Rehabilitation and Recovery
Dr Shawn Mitchell
Consultant Psychiatrist, Women’s Service
Based at St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton, Dr Mitchell is the Consultant for the low secure and open units of the Women’s Service pathway. Shawn is also Lead Psychiatrist for the Women’s Service, and is Associate Medical Director for Medical Regulation. He is a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist with a particular interest in rehabilitation and recovery focused services for service users with complex and challenging needs.
Shawn leads on service user involvement for the Charity and implemented the current system of service users involvement. He is currently the Lead for Recovery for St Andrew’s, developing a Recovery Strategy for the Charity. Shawn is interested in risk management and recovery, and involving service users in risk assessment and management, and has presented at national conferences on this. Shawn is also a co-opted member of the RCPsych Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry Faculty Executive Committee.
Personality Disorder
Dr Piyal Sen
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director for CPD
Dr Sen has a special interest in personality disorder and is the joint strategic lead for personality disorder for the St Andrew’s group. He is responsible for running a personality disorder service for males at St Andrew’s Healthcare Essex and takes the lead for all CPD activities within the Charity.
Dr Sen is also a Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute of Psychiatry(IOP), King’s College, London, contributing to the M.Sc. programme on secure mental health at the IOP. His research interests and areas of publication include personality disorder, sexual offending, cultural forensic psychiatry and medical ethics.
Dr Sen has previously been the Lead Consultant for the Men’s Services at Chadwick Lodge and also a Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London. He has an active interest in teaching and has contributed to the teaching programme for trainees in both Oxford and Cambridge. He is also an MRCPsych Examiner, College CPD Regional Co-ordinator for the Oxford region and Executive Committee member of the South-Eastern Division of the College. He has sat on a number of Consultant appointment interview panels and is a Certificate of Eligibilty for Specialist Registration (CESR) evaluator for the College.
Dr Sen has received various awards, including the Peter Scott and John Hamilton Fellowships from The Royal College of Psychiatrists and also the India International Fellowship Award from the Indian High Commissioner in London.
Other Clinicians
Phil Broxton
Therapy Manager, Men’s Service
Phil commenced his career in healthcare as a nursing assistant in 1992, working on a locked mixed gender adolescent unit at St Andrew’s, and worked during the evenings at the Patient Recreation Club. In 1994 he became an assessment co-ordinator at The Workbridge Centre, which provides vocational rehabilitation. liaising with teams throughout the hospital and community, developing systems and helping to create a Service User Group.
In 2001 Phil commenced work on a medium secure adolescent male unit as a Mental Health Staff Nurse. He gained experience of completing pre-admission assessment visits throughout the UK, risk management and proactive treatment through to discharge. He also qualified as an NVQ Assessor and Internal Verifier, supporting professional development and learning.
Phil transferred to Deputy Ward Manager in 2005 with the Men’s Service, gaining experience in revising the ward programme, activities and expectations. In 2008 he became Ward Manager working with older males in low security, gaining further experience of admissions, treatment through to transfer or discharge.
In 2009 Phil was appointed Acting Clinical Service Manager, and in April 2010 became Clinical Service Manager of the Older Adult and Huntington Disease Services, gaining experience at a strategic level.
In October 2010 Phil was appointed into his current role as Therapy Manager of the Men’s Service. This role involves being a care co-ordinator, line manager for allied health professionals, contributing at Service and Charitywide level to promote clinical governance. Phil is also lead for the implementation of Recovery Star, Chair of the Men’s Health Promotion group and is developing a campaign with The Royal College of Nursing to promote the well being of male nurses working in forensic settings within the East Midlands.
Samantha Cooper-Evans
Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Men’s Service
Since graduating from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2001, Sam has had the opportunity to develop skills working with a range of clients in both forensic and mental health settings. For the past 7 years she has been working at St Andrew’s Healthcare with detained patients presenting with complex mental health and forensic needs and is hence practised at conducting comprehensive psychosocial treatment formulations and delivering treatment to address offending behaviours in the context of complex mental health needs such as learning disability, acquired brain injury, dementia, substance misuse, and personality disorder. For the past 2 years she has been working within the low-secure service St Andrew’s Northampton, focusing specificaly on the needs of offenders on the Autistic Spectrum.
Dr Enys Delmage
Consultant Psychiatrist, Adolescent Service
Dr Delmage works with young mentally disordered offenders. He dual-trained in child and adolescent and forensic psychiatry and has dual CCTs in both disciplines. He currently works on an inpatient unit with twelve beds and manages young people with complex disorders, largely conduct and emotional disorders but usually complicated by a high degree of comorbidity. The Adolescent Servcie at St Andrew’s Northampton has a total of 100 beds (60 Mental Health and 40 Learning Disability), working with males and females aged 13 to 23.
Dr Delmage’s training comprised of work in community child and adolescent mental health settings, inpatient units, and a variety of forensic units from low secure to medium and high secure hospitals. He also provided inreach for a number of prisons and Young Offenders’ Institutions, and provided support for Local Authority Secure Children’s Homes and Secure Training Centres. He is medical lead for the Mental Health Law Study Group, and is part of the Ethics Group, the Specialty Trainee Group, the Consultancy Service and the Research Group at St Andrew’s Healthcare, as well as being part of the QNIC review team and the Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Delmage has a masters’ degree in mental health law and his current area of interest is the age of criminal responsibility in the UK compared to elsewhere in the world. He is about to embark upon a PhD related to this topic via De Montford University in Leicester.
Dr Rafey Faruqui
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, National Brain Injury Centre, Neuropsychiatry Service
Dr Faruqui is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy and has a particular interest in professional education and training development.
He is currently serving as Finance Officer, Section of Neuropsychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists and leads on Complex Neurodisability Working Group. He was member of the working group that advised the WHO on revision of International Classification of Diseases and currently serves on Royal College’s Revalidation and CPD Committee.
Dr Faruqui has a research interest in neuropsychiatry, stress related disorders, and professional education. He has provided consultancy in international disaster management projects and suicide prevention education programmes. His current projects include developing a Royal College Interfaculty Working party on Alcohol and Brain Damage.
Barbara Fulton
Senior Specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Women’s Service
Barbara is an accredited therapist with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (Since 1999) and is a registered mental health nurse (Since 1993). She also holds a post graduate certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis (2010).
In her role Barbara is involved in the development, maintenance and delivery of the cognitive behavioural based suite of groups and she also provides specialist individual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for women who present with complex needs including dual diagnosis and personality disorder.
Barbara is involved with staff support, training and research. She has also published as a co-author a number of clinically focused papers and spoken at national conferences.
Annette Greenwood
Trauma Response Lead
Annette has worked in the field of psychological trauma for 17 years and has worked on a number of high profile national and international major incidents. She is the co author of a chapter for a new book entitled The International Handbook of Workplace Trauma Support and Critical Incident Management; edited by Professor Cary Cooper: Published by Wiley-Blackwell (in press).
Following theological training in Edinburgh, Julian was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1972. Periods of church ministry followed in Wiltshire, Bristol, Somerset and London and he also worked for nearly five years as a school chaplain in Sri Lanka. He has had a long-term interest in mental health as well as in the interface of psychology and spirituality. He holds a theology degree and has completed a course in psychodynamic counselling at Birkbeck College and a Master’s degree in psychoanalytic theory mainly from a clinical perspective at Goldsmiths College. Rev Bowers has been Head of Chaplaincy at St Andrew’s Healthcare since 2004.
Ordained as an Anglican minister in 1990 following theological study at the University of Leeds and Westcott House Cambridge, Neil has worked in Wales, Hampshire, the West Midlands and Northampton as parish priest, hospital chaplain and social responsibility advisor. He has training in group work, bereavement counselling and systemic psychotherapy and is currently Senior Chaplain at St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton. He is also the Bishop of Peterborough’s Advisor for Pastoral Care and Counselling.
Dr Ernest Gralton
Associate Medical Director for Developmental Psychiatry
Dr Gralton has dual training in Forensic Psychiatry and Lifespan Learning Disability. He has a particular interest in autism and offending, complex developmental disorders, atypical presentations of mental illness in developmentally disabled adolescents and models of inpatient care.
Dr Gralton has clinical responsibilities at Malcolm Arnold House, a modern specialised secure inpatient service for adolescents with developmental disabilities who present risk behaviours to themselves or others. The unit constitutes most of the UK’s specialist medium secure provision for this patient population. This placement would be suitable for a trainee interested in gaining experience with developmentally disabled adolescents with considerable co-morbidity.
Lorraine Higham
Clinical Psychologist, Men’s Services
Lorraine qualified in September 2009 from the University of Leeds. After graduating she joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in Birmingham, where she currently works as the Clinical Psychologist on a specialist low secure ward for men with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Prior to this, she had spent 8 years working within a variety of roles within the NHS, namely as a Health Care Assistant, Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Clinical Psychologist. Her work has predominantly been within the field of mental health and learning disability, with a particular interest of hers being ASD.
Louise Haggar
Senior Forensic Occupational Therapist, Men’s Service
Louise currently works on the medium secure admissions ward within the Men’s Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare. Since qualifying in 1995 with a BSc Hons Degree in Occupational Therapy she initially started her career in acute psychiatry at the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital in Birmingham. After a six month post she transferred to Reaside Clinic MSU, in Birmingham, where she worked for seven years before moving to St Andrew’s in 2003.
Her expertise is in working with challenging patients with enduring mental illness and/or personality disorder within secure environments. She is a lead tutor in the Making Positive Connections Course which is a training package for staff, to increase understanding therefore improving quality of intervention and care for those patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder.
Louise also has expertise in Occupational Therapy Risk Assessment and Management and has presented on this subject at the National Forensic Occupational Therapy Conference in 2009.
Louise is the Service User Lead for the Men’s Service involving co-ordinating monthly meetings, involvement in service user projects within the Men’s Service and the wider charity and organising Men’s Service User social events. She has had articles published regarding the social events in Occupational Therapy News and the Quality Network.
Louise transferred to the new William Wake House MSU which opened at Northampton in December 2010.
Louise Jeffries
Senior Forensic Occupational Therapist, Men’s Services
Louise works on the medium secure admissions ward within the Men’s Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare. Since qualifying in 1995 with a BSc Hons Degree in Occupational Therapy she initially started her career in acute psychiatry at the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital in Birmingham. After a six month post she transferred to Reaside Clinic MSU, in Birmingham, where she worked for seven years before moving to St Andrew’s in 2003.
Her expertise is in working with challenging patients with enduring mental illness and/or personality disorder within secure environments. She is a lead tutor in the Making Positive Connections Course which is a training package for staff, to increase understanding therefore improving quality of intervention and care for those patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder. Louise also has expertise in Occupational Therapy Risk Assessment and Management and has presented on this subject at the National Forensic Occupational Therapy Conference in 2009.
Louise is the Service User Lead for the Men’s Service involving co-ordinating monthly meetings, involvement in service user projects within the Men’s Service and the wider charity and organising Men’s Service User social events. She has had articles published regarding the social events in Occupational Therapy News and the Quality Network. Louise transferred to the new William Wake House MSU at Northampton in December 2010.
Russell Jones
Associate Director for Operations (non-clinical)
Russell joined St Andrew’s as Business Development Manager in January 2000 after working in a variety of Finance roles within the NHS since graduating in 1993. Qualifications include a BA with Hons, from the University of Teesside (1993), and later qualified also as an Accountant (ACMA) in 2002. During 2004/5, whilst still working for the Directorate with responsibility for Contracting and Business Development, Russell undertook a short secondment to the Adult Mental Health services in a business manager consultancy capacity. After 3 years Russell returned to the Directorate full time as Contracting and Business Development Manager and became Head of Contracts with increased responsibility for leading contractual matters for the expanding Charity. In May last year Russell was promoted to Deputy Director for Business Development, a role which comprises leading 3 Departments – Contracting, Business Development and Admissions.
Russell recently moved to a new role as Associate Director for Operations.
Dr Clare Kevis
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Dr Kevis is based at St Andrew’s Essex and has had an interest in spirituality and presented on two occasions at Christian Medical Fellowship Conferences. Dr Clare Kevis leads a psychology and arts therapy team within Essex and recognises the importance of verbal and non verbal therapy forms in the change process. She is married to a Church of England vicar and hence has an insight into the challenges that faith and spirituality pose in the developmental spectrum from birth to death.
Dr Clare Kevis has also worked in Oxleas NHS Thrust and Guys and Lewisham Trust earlier in her career and came to St Andrew’s Essex in 2000.
Dr Clive Long
Associate Director of Psychology and Psychological Therapies
In addition to the above role, Dr Long is also a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. Prior to this he was Clinical Director of the Acute Psychiatry Service at St Andrew’s Hospital.
Dr Long has lead responsibility within the Charity for delivering effective evidence-based psychosocial treatment programmes. As Lead Psychologist in the Women’s Service he has led on a project to develop a gender sensitive series of treatment manuals designed specifically for women in secure psychiatric settings. He was most recently a member of the Outcome and Activity Measures Working Group of the Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services.
Dr Long is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. He has published widely on clinical issues, particularly in the fields of treatment evaluation and addictions.
Dr Jane McCarthy
Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director
Dr McCarthy joined the St Andrew’s Nottinghamshire team in April 2011 as Clinical Director, leading the development of the clinical assessment and treatment models for our Learning Disability and Autistic Spectrum Disorder secure pathways.
Jane brings a wealth of experience with her to the team; a specialist in the Psychiatry of Learning Disability she has actively contributed for over 15 years through research, teaching, and as a Consultant Psychiatrist towards service delivery and development.
From September 2009 until December 2010, Jane acted as Clinical Advisor for Adults with Autism at the Department of Health, supporting the first year delivery of the strategy ‘Fulfilling and Rewarding lives: The strategy for adults with Autism in England’. She has lectured extensively at both undergraduate and postgraduate degree level at University College London, University of Cambridge and St. George’s, University of London. Currently Jane is the interim course leader for the Institute of Psychiatry’s MSc Mental Health in Learning Disabilities at King’s College London.
Having graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1982, Jane became a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) in 1987 and a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) in 1991. She was awarded her Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) from the University of London in 2005 and in 2008 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Since October 1995, Jane has held Consultant Psychiatrist posts in a range of learning disability services for both adolescents and adults across the country.
Jane’s key research interests include the outcomes of psychiatric disorders in people with learning disabilities across the lifespan including those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. In the last five years Jane has significantly contributed to research in this area having obtained funding for a number of research initiatives including ‘Mental Health Outcomes in Adults with Autism and Learning Disabilities’ as well as ‘Effective treatments for people with Neurodevelopmental disorders across the lifespan and intellectual ability.’ In recognition of her contribution to research, in 1998 she was awarded the Brian Oliver Research Prize
Dr Marco Picchioni
Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer in Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science, St Andrew's Academic Centre, part of the Institute of Psychiatry
Dr Picchioni initially trained in internal medicine before moving to psychiatry in 1996. He joined Robin Murrays group at the Institute of Psychiatry in 2000 and has worked on the study of psychotic twins ever since. Marco co-ordinated the Institutes arm of The European Twin Study Network on Schizophrenia (EUTwinsS), the largest international study of twins affected by schizophrenia in the world.
His principle research interest is using functional MRI to study high risk states for schizophrenia, and his PhD focuses on this theme. Marco’s other research interests are treatment resistance in schizophrenia and the aetiology and management of aggression in that disorder.
Marco is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science based at the St Andrew's Academic Centre, part of the Institute of Psychiatry. He is also an Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, looking after a male low secure ward at St Andrew's in Northampton.
Marilyn Sher
Forensic Psychologist, Men’s Service
Marilyn completed an MSc in Forensic Psychology at the University of Surrey in 2004, and became a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society following a period of supervised practice. She has worked in the Adolescent Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare Northampton since 2005. Due to the complex nature of the client group in this service, Marilyn has placed considerable emphasis on adapting and developing offence related assessment and treatment procedures to meet their unique needs. She has also played an integral role in developing standards of effective implementation of risk assessment procedures, and delivery of training to staff hospital wide. Marilyn is also the lead researcher in a pilot of the START-AV (Adolescent version).
Dr Shubhinder Shergill
Consultant Learning Disability Psychiatrist, Men’s Service
Dr Shergill has been a member of the Parole Board for England & Wales since 2007. He has almost 6 years experience working in medium secure services for men with learning disability. He has a particular interest in working psychologically with this client group and developing person-centred approaches in secure environments that place the individual’s needs within a systemic context and provide an empowering and developmental experience for the Service User. He is currently working on the Geoffrey Hawkins Unit, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton where he has introduced a programme of medication rationalisation and promoted greater use of relational security. At today’s event he will be talking about person-centred approaches within medium security and the challenges of working in this way.
Mary Woodward
Highly Specialised Speech and Language Therapist, Men’s Service
Mary works primarily with men with High Functioning Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and/or Mental Health difficulties. She has trained and worked in the field of autism and/or communication difficulties for the last 10 years, specialising in working with adults with ASC and/or mental health in secure services in 2006, before joining St Andrew’s Healthcare in May 2008.