Work with individuals

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John has offered support to individuals in challenging practitioner, clinical, managerial, academic and research roles. Typically, these sessions occur monthly.   The approach is to help clients think and develop understanding about themselves as people in roles within systems, and to consider how best to manage themselves in these roles, address difficulties and improve creativity and effectiveness.  

 

John draws on models including role consultancy, mentoring and coaching to tailor his support to the individual's needs.

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Clients have included senior psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses, academics and managers at all levels.

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Work with teams and groups

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John specialises in helping teams of practitioners and clinicians, managers and leaders develop mutually supportive, collaborative and effective ways of working together and addressing their roles, tasks and challenges within the wider system.  

 

He has designed and facilitated programmes for single- and multi-disciplinary groups, for large leadership communities and for management/leadership teams in health services and beyond. These programmes range from reflective practice, to service review, to problem solving, especially where teams face challenges in terms of collaboration, development and change.  

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Clients have included multi-disciplinary healthcare teams, consultant psychiatrist teams, clinical psychology teams, and senior and middle leadership groups in health and social care.

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Organisation and Service development

 

John has designed and facilitated inclusive and creative programmes to develop commissioning strategies (eg. for Learning Disability services), clinical and service strategies (eg. for Older People's Mental Health, Children's, and Learning Disability services), and care pathways (e.g. Learning Disability).

 

Following on from such development work, he has supported the processes of change and implementation needed to make such strategy and planning real, with a strong emphasis on promoting critical and creative dialogue between practitioners, their clients, managers, and leaders.

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John has also facilitated the development of strategic direction, integrating business planning, service strategy and staff engagement, and its implementation in NHS and Voluntary Sector organisations.

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Education, Lectures and Workshops

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With his extensive experience of staff training, course design, group dynamics and reflective practice, John has delivered innovative and valued training and development programmes for groups of staff ranging from ward managers, to social workers, to leaders.  He is especially skilled in the design and facilitation of exploratory, learning or development events for very large groups.

 

In recent years, he has lectured widely and facilitated workshops in the UK and beyond based on the ideas in his and Penelope Campling's book 'Intelligent Kindness: reforming the culture of healthcare'.  His audiences have included policy makers, senior managers, Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists, GPs, Physicians, Psychologists, Nurses, Social Workers, Chaplaincy staff and Academics. Recently, John has contributed to international on-line learning events offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, based in the USA. He has taught 'Models of Consultancy: ways of seeing, ways of working' on the Leicester University doctoral programme for clinical psychology for several years.

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An overview of their ideas can be found in their Elizabeth Bryan Hay Memorial Lecture  - delivered at the 2017 Hay festival.  It can be listened to on the Hay Player (for £10.00) or read here ......

 

(The lecture was given by both John and Penny, though the written version does not specify who is speaking.)

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A sound only podcast at Oxford University, Said Business School can be found here 

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A BBC Radio 4 'Four Thought' talk, can be found here

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