Meet the South West Faculty for Advanced Practice

Lisa is the Regional Lead for Advanced Practice in the South West. She is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at UHBW, Bristol since 2005. Areas of special interest include: Postgraduate Medical/Health Education, Workforce planning & development, multi-disciplinary team development and Point of Care USS. Regional & National roles: Associate Postgraduate Dean for Workforce Transformation NHSE SW (WT&E), Clinical Lead Faculty for Advancing Practice NHSE SW (WT&E). Regional Clinical Adviser Urgent and Emergency Care NHSE SW. Past Vice President Royal College of Emergency Medicine 2016 – 2022.

Girish is the Regional Deputy Lead for Advanced Practice. His role involves ensuring the day to day running of the South West Advanced Practice Faculty, including overseeing finance, comms and data. In addition to this I work closely with the education providers across the South West to ensure they can meet the demand of the trainee advanced practitioner workforce that we support.

Lou is the Advanced Practice Education & Development Specialist Lead. Her role provides support across the region to systems, organisations, training hubs and services as required on what advanced practice is, how it can support workforce transformation, service delivery and patient pathways. Her role also helps our partners with developing governance structures and processes to support advanced practice roles. Lou is a registered nurse and has a clinical background as an advanced practitioner working across a variety of unscheduled care settings.

Simon is one of our Advanced Practice Education and Training Development Leads. His clinical role is as Musculoskeletal Consultant Physiotherapist in Somerset so he will also support the wider MSK aspect of Advanced Practice within the region.

Sharon is currently one of the Southwest faculty Advanced Practice Education and Training Development Leads. She has a special interest in surgery and frailty and am the go-to person for these specialities. Her main role is as a Consultant Nurse at Gloucestershire hospitals NHS Trust in Trauma and Orthopaedics. She has also worked in theatres and recovery/high dependency units. She is keen to develop our advanced practice workforce to benefit patient care throughout the patient pathway.

Martin is the supervision and assessment lead for Radiography, Oncology and End of Life Care. He is a registered Diagnostic Radiographer with over 30 years of experience in diagnostic imaging and reporting. He has held a variety of leadership roles, utilizing these opportunities for developing and expanding clinical practice. His current role is education lead for the Cardiac Ultrasound department at a tertiary unit, with an Advanced practice element, that he has held for the last 12 years. Working outside of the traditional Radiography environment has allowed him to work with other professional groups assisting them with their chosen areas of development. Martin is enthusiastic about communicating knowledge, seeing connections, and breaking down traditional barriers.

Steve is the Supervision and Assessment Lead for Nurses and Paramedics in Primary Care in the South West. He still works clinically within Primary Care as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) (Nurse) and has experience of working as a Lead ACP and Work-Based Supervisor. During his 18 years in the NHS he has experience including Acute Secondary Clinical Care and Clinical Hospital Site Leadership in addition to more recent senior PCN leadership roles. Steve is also a founding member of the Devon Local Medical Committee for Advanced Practice. He is passionate about standardizing, championing and supporting learners with their development which he sees as pivotal in supporting and enhancing Primary Care service provision in the South West and beyond.

Heather is the Educational Delivery Project Support Officer. She supports the team and collaborates with external stakeholders to develop advanced practice education and workforce transformation throughout our region. Her role includes supporting daily operations, optimizing processes and managing resources. Additionally, she helps manage Faculty finances and contributes to the development, publication, and promotion of all Faculty communications.

Donna qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2001 and began her career in Hillingdon NHS Trust. She completed a mixed rotation and enjoyed the mental health side, so spent the next 15 years of her career in this area, working clinically in both older people, adult mental health and Occupational health with staff. Donna has held several senior positions including Head of Development and Staff Well Being for Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Head of Occupational Health and Head of Occupational Therapy in West London Mental Health Trust.
She is interested in staff engagement and development and have completed research on staff engagement in the NHS workplace. She has also worked with educational partners and have been a moderator for courses at post graduate level.
Donna is passionate about Workforce planning, Learning & Development and looks forward to working with organisations and educational partners across the Devon system to develop advanced practice.

Dan Hoare is the Advanced Practice Planning Lead for Somerset. His role is to link with organisations and providers across the Somerset area to develop, embed and support Advanced Practice throughout the county, working closely with the Advanced Practice leads for Primary and Secondary Care services. Dan has a varied Workforce background spanning HR, L&D, Workforce Development and Recruitment, and holds a dual role as a People Business Partner for the Surgical Service Group at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

Susie is the ICB Advancing Practice Lead for One Gloucestershire overseeing a system wide programme based on implementing regional and national advanced practice workforce priorities with the SW Faculty. She has national recognition as a pioneer and champion for extended roles since 1993 and has worked as a Consultant Practitioner (Physiotherapist) in MSK in Gloucestershire since 2006. She has considerable experience as a post-graduate clinical educator and in leading transformational change across integrated patient pathways.

Ross is Head of Advanced Clinical Practice for South Western Ambulance Service. Ross has 13 years of clinical experience working in a variety of leadership and Advanced Practice roles across primary, urgent, and emergency care. Ross has a passion for empowering clinicians to manage patients closer to home, without the need for hospital attendance.

This post is currently vacant.

This post is currently vacant.

This post is currently vacant.