Learning Disability Strategic Lead and 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.