Be a Better Leader

Aaron was appointed Chief Executive of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust in March 2018 after first joining in January 2014 as Director of Finance / Deputy Chief Executive.

An experienced and motivated professional, Aaron’s previous roles include Director of Finance / Deputy Chief Executive of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, and Director of Finance at Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust.

Aaron began his career in the NHS as a National Graduate Trainee in 2000 and has held a number of senior management positions in the acute and community provider sector during this time.

More recently, Aaron was chosen to take part in the National Leadership Centre programme to improve public services, and has also had involvement in the Covid-19 national test and trace programme. Aaron also sits on the Integrated Care System (ICS) Digital Portfolio Board.

Aaron has also held a number of national roles including chair of the Foundation Trust Network Finance Directors’ Forum and the Government ProcurementServices (GPS) Customer Board, as well as being a member of the National Procurement Council.

Chris Jones

Chris is a qualified accountant with previous experience in public and private sectors, including the NHS. He spent 7 years as the principal and chief executive of Calderdale College, and is a former member of the Calderdale Safeguarding Children Board.

He has a particular interest in leadership and governance, and the impact this has on service standards and organisational performance.

He is a non executive director at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT and Director at Chris Jones Consultancy.

He speaks here in a purely personal capacity.

Rachel and Dan are the founders of 15s30m.

15s30m (15 seconds 30 minutes) is a social movement to reduce frustration and increase joy in work. Co-founders Rachel Pilling & Dan Wadsworth encourage all staff, from chief exec to porter, to spend a few seconds on a task now, to save SOMEONE ELSE time and hassle later. It doesn’t take any set up costs, meetings or resources, just something you know will help other people, and patients.

By doing one little thing, you can feel that you have made a difference to someone else, and that’s what brings true joy in work.

Web; 15s30m.co.uk

Email; [email protected]

Twitter; @15s30m

Charlie is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS.

In previous roles, he has worked in Older People’s Mental Health services, dementia services, and Employee Wellbeing services.

He currently works in an Acute Hospital, where his role is to lead a clinical psychology service to support the quality of life of people with various long term health conditions.

He is a dad to identical twin boys.

Professor Calvin Moorley RN, PhD is a Professor in Nursing Research and Diversity in Care, Adult Nursing Department at London South Bank University, with a background in public health and diversity in care. His research focuses on the interplay of gender, culture ethnicity and health. Since graduating from the University of Essex as an adult registered nurse, Calvin has followed a clinical/academic career, remaining close to clinical nursing, particularly in the critical care environment, and currently works one shift a week in an inner-city hospital in central London. He supports clinical nursing at the point-of-care through his role as a link lecturer for Barts Health NHS Trust.

Calvin has a keen interest in how health is theorized using social media platforms. He has published widely in nursing and social media and is developing an area on the use of social media to enhance research literacy of nurses. His most recent works include

Knowledge, attitude and beliefs on sex among Black Africans; Psychosexual Experiences of FGM survivors and Experience of Stroke among Caribbean populations in the UK. Calvin is well recognised in the field and this can be seen in his esteem factors which include: Guest Editor for a special issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing on LGBTI Health 2017; the Mary Seacole Prize for Leadership in Nursing 2013/14 by the Royal College of Nursing, and various editorships including Evidence Based Nursing Journal and Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Calvin collaborates nationally and internationally including working with teams in Trinidad, Jamaica and Australia. He publishes widely in various nursing journals, and has a current H-index of 6 (Google Scholar 2019). Calvin further serves the nursing community on various panels such as the Nursing Times Student Nurses awards; Edith Cavell Awards and Health Service Journal awards. A key objective of Calvin’s programme of work is to reduce the gap in health inequalities through developing and improving cultural competence and health literacy.

Paul Jebb OStJ MA BSc(Hons) DipHE RN

Paul qualified as a nurse in 1996 and worked in numerous posts within nursing, as well as a period in operational management, then in 2010 returned to nurse, then in October 2014, Paul undertook a secondment to the National Patient Experience team at NHS England as Experience of Care Professional Lead, leading on developing Always Events, aspects of the carers work stream and toolkit development to enhance experience of care. In December 2016 Paul returned to an NHS Trust and is now Associate Director of Nursing at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT and has recently completed a 13 month secondment as Deputy Director of Nursing at Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust.

Paul has been involved and led on numerous quality improvement initiatives throughout his career, and has gained the extra mile award by the motor neurone disease Association, in 2012 Paul was winner of a national Patient Safety Award, and in 2014 Paul and his team won a national healthcare communications award for best engagement.

In April 2016 Paul became an International Fellow of the England Centre for Practice Development at the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University.

In February 2014 Paul was honoured to be offered an Honorary Senior Lectureship at the University of Central Lancashire.

Paul is also a member of an NMC Professional Standards advisory panel, which aims to give strategic direction to the NMC Executive team and to improve the dialogue between the NMC and leaders in the professions and to ensure expertise, is brought to bear on NMC work. Paul was also part of the strategic group to refresh the NMC Education Standards.

Paul has represented the Royal College of Nursing at local, regional, national and international levels, is a member of RCNi Editorial Advisory Board. Paul also judges several national nursing and health care awards.

Paul has also been the Assistant Chief Nurse (Head of Workforce) for St John Ambulance (England & the Islands), and has held other voluntary roles. In 2012 he was honoured with the award of ‘Officer of the Order of St John’.

Paul has developed his managerial skills and has completed an MA in Health Service Management. Paul also completed the Dept. of Health/RCN leadership Course for Nurses Working with Older People in 2005, and he was a Fellow of the NHS Institute Faculty of Improvement. And in 2016 completed the ‘Aspirant Executive Nurse Leaders’ sponsored by NHS Improvement at London South Bank University.

David is a rotational physiotherapist at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Professional Committee at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. He has a passion for healthcare after his previous career in the Royal Marines was cut short due to serious injury. A thread that has run through his life is self-development and making a difference.

He balances being an early career physiotherapist with being a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Professional Committee; where he provides expertise and insight on significant physiotherapy practice, learning and development issues. He also chairs the Armed Forces Committee within University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation which represents the armed forces community within the trust. He is passionate about servicemen and women having fulfilling careers after their service and how the NHS and Military collaborate to drive innovation.

He graduated from the University of Nottingham with 1st Class Honours in physiotherapy where he researched student physiotherapists perceptions of using social media for learning. He is currently a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar and is working on a project around early-career leadership.

He has interests in leadership, rehabilitation, healthcare policy and systems.

Find David on Twitter @beardedPT

I talk with David about how we might help people imagine a better future for health and care and find ways of self-organising to fight for it. We explore leadership and student leadership, universal basic income and the Enterprise Allowance amongst much else.

John Walsh is the Organisational Development; and 'Freedom to speak up' Lead for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. John has spent the last 20 years working on the streets of Leeds trying to offer support to homeless people. He was Leeds Community Healthcare's clinician of the year in 2013 and the Yorkshire and Humber NHS Leadership Academy Community Leader of the Year in the same year. 

John currently works with Manraj Khela and Steve Keyes to grow a city wide systems leadership community of over 600 people in Leeds.

We explore:

• The development of rational and intuitive wisdom and the role of teachers
• Gifts, potential, giving and receiving
• Seeing and giving our own gists and releasing the gifts in others as THE work of leadership
• The importance of vulnerability and getting it wrong
• Hafiz and Fromm
• New leadership for a new world
• Headwork, heartwork and handwork
• Slow philosophy and much more...

Over the last 20 years Cormac has worked in over 30 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other strengths based approaches in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, South Africa, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia.

He is passionate about the proliferation of community-driven change and citizen-centred democracy, and has supported hundreds of communities to make ABCD visible through what he calls ABCD Neighbourhood Learning Sites.

His motto, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin, is: ‘When it comes to Community Building, well done is better than well said’.

In January 2011 Cormac was appointed to the Expert Reference Group on Community Organising and Communities First, by Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society in the UK which he served on for the term of the Group.

We talk about:

• Diligence - and holidays
• Compliance and tyranny in western institutions
• Associational and Institutional life
• When it comes to health might anthropologists be more useful than doctors?
• De-funding the police
• Triangles, circles, care and dominion

Chris is a coach who helps green changemakers get clear and focused. So they realise their true potential.

Some run their own business, others are freelancers, or employed. What they all have in common is an appetite for change. They’re ready to try something radical to put more soul in their livelihood, and finally bring that big unrealised dream to life.

In this conversation we explore a plate of smashed crabs - ideas that Chris wanted to explore as part of a conversation with me. But we spun off in all sorts of directions:

• Lessons from blue chip leaders
• Labels, boxes and people as pattern machines
• The difference between management and leadership and how we locate them in ourselves
• Spitfires, hypocrisy, the Tour de France and Welcome to Yorkshire
• The role of curmudgeons
• Echo chambers and tribalism
• Listening to our world
• And lots of reflections on human waste - Zizek and faeces