Andrea Roberts, Training Programme Director – Community and Palliative Care
Email address: andrea.roberts22@nhs.net
Andrea is a registered nurse and qualified as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in 2016, with a background in Emergency Medicine and Community. Andrea is actively involved with research, undertaking an NIHR ARC-GM pre-doctorate fellowship, and has an academic interest in admission avoidance.
Andrea has developed strong links between community and secondary care and has been pivotal in developing and running a frailty hospital at home and quality improvement projects to prevent ED admission, showcasing outcomes at local and national conferences.
As a keen ambassador of Advanced Practice and career progression Andrea has established portfolio working. Her time is spent as a Head of Nursing/Allied Health Professionals in a not-for-profit organisation; working clinically as an ACP in the community, primary care and emergency medicine; and for NHSE as Community and Palliative Care Training Programme Director for North West Advanced Practice.
Andrea has an active lifestyle outside of work and is often found on the football sidelines or at regional dance competitions with her teenage children, or out walking her cockapoo. With her spare time, she likes to cycle, do home workouts, and is an avid fan of F1!
Anna Riley, Training Programme Director – Emergency and Surgical Care
Email address: anna.riley3@nhs.net
Anna Riley qualified as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in 2014 and works within an emergency surgical assessment. Anna is a nurse by background and has experience in surgical and critical care environments. Now a lead ACP for the general and emergency surgical service at Manchester Royal Infirmary, Anna was jointly responsible for co-creating the North West Surgical ACP Forum in 2018, which now hosts over 100 members.
Kay Roscoe, Training Programme Director – Mental Health
Email address: kay.roscoe4@nhs.net
As an Occupational Therapist and Ward Manager in a secure service, Kay wanted to further develop her skills and competencies as a clinician. With support from her head of operations she moved into a trainee ACP role and over two years completed a number of experiential placements to develop a broad range of advanced practice skills.
Kays current role is flexible to meet the needs of the adult mental health pathway. Kay chairs complex case MDTs with responsibility for clinical decision making and team formulation, undertakes autonomous holistic patient assessments, provides clinical supervision, development and coaching to junior staff and works in partnership with psychiatrists providing senior clinical input.
Currently Kay’s job plan incorporates teaching, quality improvement and transformation alongside a clinically facing role. Kay continues to develop her role through experiential learning and high quality clinical supervision.
Kay is passionate about mental health and as a training programme director for the north west Faculty for advancing practice she hope to support the future advanced practice workforce. In Kay’s spare time she loves spending time with her family and walking her three dogs.
Liz Reilly, Training Programme Director – Primary Care
Email address: liz.reilly1@nhs.net
Liz is passionate in empowering other people to realise their full potential to inspire positive change and improve patient experiences. Therefore, she loves working with others, championing intellectual curiosity and sharing her passion for learning, growing and developing within a safe and supportive environment, to become the best we can be. As the Training programme director for primary care, that’s exactly what she aspires to do, in collaboration with trainee ACPs.
As an expert rehabilitation specialist with 20 years of experience in the field, Liz made the decision to take on a new challenge and transitioned across into primary care after completing my Masters in Advanced Practice. Now, with over 12 years of experience as a ‘specialist generalist’, with a strong professional identity as an Advanced Practitioner, Liz is keen to pay forwards the encouragement, mentoring, coaching and supervision that she has received throughout her journey to others following the same path. Liz brings patience, integrity, wisdom, compassion and respect with me for our journey.
When Liz isn’t working, she is usually out dancing Latin and Ballroom with her husband and friends, walking with her family, skiing, or travelling to new places to meet new people and learn new things.
Sarah Greenwood, Training Programme Director – Paediatrics
Email address: sarah.greenwood21@nhs.net
Sarah qualified as an ACP in paediatric orthopaedic and spinal care in 2019, and prior to that had many years’ experience as a sister in critical care. Sarah has always enjoyed teaching, professional development and supervision, and is excited to continue this working with the ACP trainees in the Northwest.
Sarah’s role has developed over the years and covers a wide range of activities, acute inpatient care, outpatient clinics and an active involvement in research and teaching.
Sarah has been fortunate to have a great team and role models that champion the ACP role and am looking forward to being part of a team that promotes, supports and develops this group.
When not working Sarah will be found out with her children, two crazy labradors or in a kayak!!
Sarah Henry, Training Programme Director – Acute Medicine
Email address: sarah.henry22@nhs.net
Sarah currently works as an ACP in Acute Medicine on an Acute Medical Unit and within Same Day Emergency Care. In addition to her clinically facing role she is involved in quality improvement and service development. Additionally, she is the educational supervisor for trainee ACPs within Acute Medicine. Sarah also helps support through supervision and pastoral care trainee ACPs in difficulty within other specialities.
After training as a Physiotherapist Sarah completed a variety of hospital and community rotational jobs and then specialised as a Respiratory and Acute Medicine Physiotherapist. Working in this highly specialised area made her interested in Advanced Clinical Practice and she embarked on her career as an ACP. This was not without its challenges as it was at a time when it was unusual for a Physiotherapist to undertake the Advanced Practice MSc. Senior members of the Medical Team questioned whether a Physiotherapist would be capable of undertaking such a role. Sarah successfully completed her MSc and achieved the necessary Acute Medicine skills and competencies to qualify as an ACP.
Her enthusiasm for widening access to Advanced Practice roles and supporting AHP development at an Advanced Level of Practice evolves from the challenges she encountered within her own training. Sarah champions the cause of ACP roles being understood and underpinned with robust governance to ensure safe and effective patient care. She was a member of the core group working nationally with the Royal College of Physicians developing the Acute Medicine Advanced Clinical Practice Capabilities.
As Training Programme Director for Acute Care Sarah aims to use her experience and skills to ensure an open, secure and supportive learning environment for trainee ACPs encompassing safe and positive patient experiences on their journey to develop the required skills and competencies to become an ACP.