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| March 2004 - now |
Priory Healthcare Ltd..,
Priory House, Randalls Way, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22
7TP |
Service Development Manager
- leading regional marketing and communications, building
relationships with key purchasers, directing regional
marketing team, developing and promoting new clinical
services across five hospital sites in the southeast,
overseeing the production of service literature and
communications. |
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Honorary and other recent positions
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| October 2002 - now |
group analysis journal |
Executive Editor, reporting to editorial
board |
| June 2002 - now |
Eastbourne
Group Psychotherapy Practice, Eastbourne, East Sussex |
Clinical Director developing the
practice, also running a variety of therapeutic, experiential,
training and supervision groups for patients, trainees
and students. |
| August 2000 - now |
South
Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 |
Honorary Senior Lecturer in
the Faculty of Health, School of Nursing, Mental Health
Nursing Division, honorary contract, occasional teaching
on courses as below and undertaking research into clinical
supervision online. |
| November 1999 - now |
GroupInterVisual
Ltd.,
95 Enys Road, Eastbourne,
East Sussex BN21 2ED |
Executive Chairman - leading
in the articulation of organisational identity and
mission in a new technology company, building community
online using videoconferencing and video-streaming
technologies.
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Past employment
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EMPLOYER
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POSITION/ACTIVITY
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| Oct 2003 - March 2004 |
Croydon CAMHS, South London & Maudsley
NHS Trust, Croydon CR0 |
Chidren's Section
Manager - locum position, operational manager for
an MDT of 20 and several clinics in a busy community
CAMH service where the main agenda was demand, capacity
and waiting list management in the context of a newly
merged, change-weary workforce and concerns over the
Trust's performance rating |
| Sept 2003 - March 2004 |
Croydon CAMHS, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust,
Croydon CR0 |
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric
Liaison - locum position, case managing children
and young people referred following parasuicide from
A&E or with a variety of mental health problems
from primary care |
| May 2002 - March 2004 |
Young Person's Unit, Nightingale
Hospital, Bendall Mews, London NW8 |
Group Psychotherapist/Clinical
Nurse Specialist running a variety of treatment
groups for patients and offering supervision and professional
development input for staff on an in-patient adolescent
psychiatric unit within a private hospital. |
| July 1999 - March 2004 |
Intensive
Psychological Treatment Service, Guy's Hospital,
London SE1 |
Group Conductor,
Staff Development Group - running staff group on a weekly
basis during periods of major upheaval, change and more
recently consolidation in service provision |
| August 1996 - March 2004 |
Psychotherapy
Department, Maudsley NHS Trust, Denmark Hill, London
SE5. |
Adult Psychotherapist;
running slow-open analytic psychotherapy groups and
treating patients in individual analytic therapy. |
| January 2002 - Dec 2003 |
London
Centre for Psychotherapy, London NW3 |
Experiential Group
Conductor on Introduction
to psychodynamic psychotherapy course |
| March 2001 - January 2002 |
Amardeep, Effra Day Centre, 65 Effra Road,
London SW2 |
Group Facilitator,
Staff Development Group - running staff group on a weekly
basis initially during period of crisis in the team,
then gradually reducing in frequency for the remainder
of contracted period |
| August 1999 - August 2000 |
South Bank University, Borough Road, London
SE1 |
Senior Lecturer
in the Faculty of Health, School of Nursing, Mental
Health Nursing Division, with responsibilities for curriculum
development, delivery and evaluation, also student supervision.
Courses included "User involvement and the politics
of mental health care provision", "The role
of the mental health nurse", "The older adult
and continuing care practice" (Mental Health Branch
programme) and "Social Theories and the Practice
of Caring" (Common Foundation Programme) |
| January 1997 - August 1999 |
User Employment Project,
South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS
Trust (formerly Pathfinder Mental Health NHS Trust),
Springfield Hospital, Lodon SW17 7DH |
Project Co-Ordinator of a 'leading
edge', nursing run scheme with a national profile, addressing
disability discrimination and seeking to reframe the
experience of mental health problems as a potential
source of expertise. The Project Co-Ordinator's
role involved all operational management - recruitment
& supervision of staff team, clinical leadership,
budgeting, policy development, research into project's
impact - also strategic responsibilities, including
funding proposals, conference appearances, publications
and seminars at other NHS Trusts, liaison with NHS Executive,
training and facilitation of Trust staff in operation
of staff recruitment & retention best practice and
representation of the project at strategic management/director
level. Written up in Davidson & Perkins (1997) and
Davidson (1997c; 1998f) as referenced on the publications
list on this site. Most central role in training
and education of Trust staff at all levels. |
| March 1996 - December 1996 |
Riggindale Mental Health Day Centre (Lambeth Social
Services), 37 Riggindale Road, London SW16 4LX. |
Deputy Project Manager - some strategic representation
of the project, mainly operational responsibilities
including policy development, maintenance of budget,
developing systems for monitoring Centre usage and demographics,
supervision of junior staff, disciplinary matters, managing
a caseload of clients with more complex needs and liasing
with other clinicians/teaching staff/agencies to construct
retraining packages for Lambeth Day Service staff in
case management, as Lambeth mental health services underwent
restructuring. Written up in Davidson (1997b). |
| August 1993 - March 1996 |
Cowley House Community Mental Health Day Centre (Lambeth
Social Services), 147 Brixton Road, London SW9 9LX. |
Mental Health Worker - usual psychiatric
nursing responsibilities: individual and group clientwork,
case management, liason with patients' hospital and
community-based multi-disciplinary teams, maintaining
therapeutic environment and assisting in admin. and
day-to-day running of an inner city Day Centre offering
psychotherapy, crisis intervention, welfare advice and
'drop-in' services to a disadvantaged, multi-racial,
seriously mentally ill client-group. See Davidson (1997a;
1998d). |
| October 1990 - August 1993 |
Maudsley Hospital, London SE5. |
Student R.M.N.; A three year clinically-based
training, comprising ten 3-month placements in a variety
of community and in-patient clinical settings, both
acute, rehabilitative and specialist, including the
emergency clinic, in-patient acute admissions, assertive
outreach community work and crisis intervention, day
hospital/therapeutic community work and drug detox./rehab.
Clinical work included reminiscence groupwork with elderly
clients in a day hospital, dramatherapy groupwork and
a supervised eating programme with eating disordered
patients, cognitive-analytical work with depressed clients,
behavioural treatment of people with phobias and individual
keyworking of clients with a range of problems including
depression, psychosis, mania, anxiety disorders/OCD's,
addictions and eating disorders.
During this time I presented my work with one client
at a special case conference at the Institute of Psychiatry;
I set up student RMN placements at the Arbours therapeutic
community; I planned research with S. Ritter at Institute
of Psychiatry into in-patient suicide & nursing
care; and undertook curriculum development work @
the Maudsley's Professional Development Centre in
relation to its MSc. in Behavioural Psychotherapy.
Written up in Davidson (1992a; 1992b; 1993; 1998a;
1998b; 1998c).
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Prior to my fifteen year career
in mental health work, I spent four years (1986-1990)
in estate agency, managing local sales offices and
running my own property development company and team
of builders. Earlier still, I worked as a psychiatric
nursing auxiliary (1985) in Withington Hospital, Manchester;
as a meditation teacher/class organiser at the Manchester
Buddhist Centre (1984-5); and as a residential care
worker at a childrens' home for maladjusted adolescents
(vacation work 1979-84) in Sussex.
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