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 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.