Welcome to episode 114 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 8 February 2023] of #mhTV. This week Vanessa Gilmartin spoke with guests Dawn Jessop, Susan Parkes & Jonathon Stephen about mental health in justice.
This episode is a part of the Health In Justice National Event running on 20 February 2023.
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JS - Jonathon has an extensive history of working as a clinician and leader within mental health services.
In the early part of his nursing career, he spent many years in secondary mental health services as a clinician working in PICU, acute care and community settings, developing a specialist interest in providing care for people with complex needs associated with psychosis.
Jonathon’s career progressed with his interest in leadership, engagement and transformation coming to the forefront of his development. He has worked as a senior mental health operational lead in various leadership roles across Adult acute inpatient care, adult community secondary mental health care, community Camhs, Older people’s services and IAPT. His interest in leadership led him to complete his MSc in Healthcare Leadership with the NHS Leadership Academy and he has been responsible for leading on multiple successful service re-design and transformation projects – always undertaken with the required engagement and leadership from clinicians and other supporting leads.
For the last 4 years, Jonathon has been working in the Specialist Services division with Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust as the Senior Service Lead for Health in Justice Services providing leadership and support to a range of highly specialist and bespoke services providing care and expert provision for people who come into contact with the criminal justice system in various circumstances including within prison settings.
“I have always enjoyed working in partnership contexts where creating relational trust and engagement are key footings to the provision of high quality and safe care. It is a real privilege to work alongside the clinical experts in our fields advocating for the population of people we support – including our workforce colleagues and being on the coal face of inter-organisational development and improvement. This enables my role to feel really meaningful - in terms of influencing the quality and safety of service design and provision. At the moment we are working extensively with PPG our lead provider, and other partners in our prison settings, on implementing our integrated approach to care delivery within our prison settings - New Models of Care. This is an evidence based approach to improving the safety and quality of our provision in prisons with significant focus on underpinning this person centred model with greater integration and a Trauma Informed cultural shift. Furthermore we will be enhancing our delivery of safer care in early days, broadening the availability and increasing the quality of our crisis response offer, enriching planned care and optimising release and transfer processes”.
Some Twitter links to follow are:
VG - www.twitter.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - www.twitter.com/niadla
DM - www.twitter.com/davidamunday
DJ - www.twitter.com/jessop_dawn
SP - www.twitter.com/Sue_parkes1
JS - www.twitter.com/Chorleyhood
Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Dawn Jessop, Susan Parkes & Jonathon Stephen
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday
