NOMINATIONS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CMSUK 2011

Carole Chantler, Director of Clinical Services, DWF LLP (Current CMSUK Chair)

Nominated by:John Ainscough, Director, Ainscough Associates Ltd, (CMSUK Director)

Teresa Shaw, Clinical Director, Proclaim CARE Ltd, (CMSUK Director)

Nominee Biography:

  • Registered Nurse in Canada and the UK
  • MA in Case Management ( Brighton 2010)
  • Critical nurse > 20+ years in Canada and the UK
  • Case manager for >15years with experience in Canada and the UK in private health insurance, PI, travel insurance and the for the Government of Canada
  • 1998-2004 Clinical Director of The Injury Care Clinics
  • 2004-2006 Rehabilitation Manager for Lyons Davidson’s LLP
  • 2007-2010 Medical Relationship Manager for DWF LLP
  • 2010-present Clinical Director of DWF LLP
  • A member of the initial committee to develop CMSUK
  • Long standing Board Member of CMSUK
  • Current Chair person of CMSUK since 2007
  • Past Chair of the Events Committee
  • Co Author of the CMSUK’s Standards Of Practice and Guidelines to practice
  • Co Author of CMSUK and Babicm’s Code of Ethics
  • Member of the Standards and Research Committee
  • Winner of POST Magazine’s Rehabilitation First’s Outstanding Individual Achievement Award 2011.

Nominee Aims for 3 year Directorship:

  1. To continue the work I have been doing, to develop an educational pathway for Case Managers in the UK. The results of the survey that we commissioned this year should be out in March 2012
  2. To continue to lobby the government and health and social care groups to raise their awareness of the benefits of good Case Management to their client group, in doing so working within the remit of out charitable status. The survey results will act as the platform for this work.
  3. To continue to develop CMSUK so that it is THE Society Case Managers want to belong to.

Sam Harris, Director/Case Manager, HACM Ltd (Current Vice Chair of CMSUK)

Nominated by:Liz Haunch, Director/Case Manager, Bridge Case Management Ltd (CMSUK Director)

Nicole Thompson, Business Development Officer, Nuffield Health (CMSUK Director)

Nominee Biography:

Sam Harris is the Managing Director and senior case manager of HACM Limited. Sam has specialised for the past 9 years in the rehabilitation of individuals with brain, orthopaedic and spinal injury.

Prior to assuming the role of Managing Director in January 2008, Sam was the Senior Consultant Case Manager for HACM. Sam coordinates complete rehabilitation programmes for adults and children with complex and multiple physical difficulties. Her work is based on HACM’s Case Management model and applicable to both pre and post settlement of medico-legal claims. Sam works closely with multi-disciplinary teams, developing care plans, and co-ordinating complex packages of care, including liaison with and referral to other statutory services across health and social services.

Nominee Aims for 3 year Directorship

I have been a director on CMSUK for the past three years and joint chair to the Education and Events Committee and would like to continue with this work input. More recently I have undertaken the role of Vice Chair of CMSUK.

My main aim is to continue with the work towards the continued education and development of case management as a profession in hope of ensuring clients, purchasers and service providers receive a cost effective and high quality provision throughout the industry.

I would also like to continue to support CMSUK in maintaining and developing relationships with other organisation influential with the case management world such as the VRA and BABICM and supporting our organisation to be recognised as the sole professional body for case managers.

Robin Pickard, Operations Director, Obair Associates

Nominated by:Carole Chantler, Director of Clinical Services, DWF (CMSUK Chair)

Teresa Shaw, Clinical Director, Proclaim CARE Ltd (CMSUK Director)

Nominee Biography:

Robin has over 15 years of experience working within the commercial vocational rehabilitation sectors in the UK and Australia. Robin is an accredited Rehabilitation Counsellor (Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellor) and a full member of CMSUK and the VRA. Robin’s role in the vocational rehabilitation sector is in the provision of a range of Vocational Evaluations, Transferable Skills Analysis, rehabilitation counselling and job seeking/job development services. Robin works with case managers supporting them to maximise the vocational rehabilitation potential of their clients. As well as practicing Robin has successfully managed commercially driven vocational rehabilitation services (Obair Associates), where he has been the Operations Director since 2008. Robin is also a trainer in vocational rehabilitation. Robin is a member of CMSUK educational group for the last 2 years.

Nominee Aims for the 3 year Directorship:

  • To support the continued development of CMSUK both in the UK and to a global audience.
  • To raise the awareness of case management in the UK
  • To continue and support the excellent work of CMSUK in the provision of quality conferences and study days
  • To ensure CMSUK is fiscally stable
  • To aid the development of special interest groups within CMSUK for the membership

Jaqueline Salvidge, Operations Director, Innovate HMG

Nominated by:Georgia Hellen, Buisiness Development Director, Innovate HMG

Nicole Thompson, Business Development Officer, Nuffield Health (CMSUK Director)

Nominee Biography:

In 1999, I graduated with first class honours in Sports Rehabilitation from SurreyUniversity and started work in clinical practice with London Irish Rugby club and the London School of Ballet before emigrating to Australia. Here, I spent two years in Sydney teaching Anatomy and Physiology and working in private practice.

In 2003 I made the transition into case management, working for Konekt Australia and over a five year period worked my way up through the company to Business Manager of the Gold Coast office in Queensland. During this time I completed a post graduate diploma in Business Management which assisted me to increase my commercial awareness and develop the much needed business acumen required to work in a management role in the industry.

I returned to Manchester in 2008 where I joined Corpore as Operations Manager, with a team of five case managers and was able to grow the team to twenty nine over a three year period.

In September 2011 I was offered the exciting opportunity to join Innovate HMG as Operations Director. The company is the UK division of a well-established case management company in the US called Healthcare Resource Group (HCRG).

I believe, my clinical and case management experience combined with my operations and business background will enable me to contribute to the knowledge and skills already apparent on the CMSUK board of directors.

Nominee Aims for the 3 year Directorship:

As a Director of CMSUK I have the following aims, which also align with CMSUK’s current 5 year strategic plan.

  1. To contribute to the financial growth and stability of CMSUK via increasing corporate membership from the defendant insurance and corporate sectors utilising my own networking and contacts
  2. To organise a CMSUK study day based on ‘Case management and the Corporate Sector’ focussing on the effectiveness of case managers to manage short to long term absence and discuss models used. This would involve including speakers from various industries currently utilising different models and to discuss the role of the case manager in the process.
  3. To support and advance the case management profession and CMSUK’s goal to be the sole professional body for case managers by employing CMSUK case manager members in the new business I am involved in starting and growing over the next three years.
  4. To establish a group of case managers with a special interest working in occupational health and the corporate sector.
  5. To ensure that a proportion of Innovate HMG’s recruitment is aimed at employing experienced clinicians from the NHS and social service sectors to continue to grow the number of people becoming involved in the case management industry.

Teresa Shaw, Clinical Director, Proclaim CARE Ltd (Current CMSUK Director)

Nominated by:Sue Mosiezny, Serious Injury Case Manager, Proclaim CARE Ltd

Carole Chantler, Director of Clinical Services, DWF (CMSUK Chair)

Nominee Biography:

Teresa Shaw qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1981. She had a successful career working as a theatre sister for many years before working in pain management. Teresa was responsible for developing the acute pain management service at WarringtonHospital. She was on the working party to develop the degree course in pain management at John Moores University Liverpool. Teresa was the treasurer of the acute pain nurses group to support pain nurses in the UK. I have organised study days and conferences on pain management for medical and nursing staff.

Teresa joined Proclaim Care Limited in 2003 as a Case Manager. She is now the Clinical Director responsible for the clinical strategy and development. She continues to handle a caseload and is actively involved in cases being handled by other case managers.

Nominee Aims for the 3 year Directorship:

  • Continue to take lead role in organising CMSUK annual conference.
  • Continue to support CMSUK in the ongoing development of conference and study days to address the needs of all types of case management.
  • Increase membership through providing quality conferences and study days.
  • Continue to support the work of CMSUK to develop case management as a profession

Nicole Thompson, Business Development Officer, Nuffield Health (Current CMSUK Director)

Nominated by:Helen Ryan, Head of Intensive Rehabilitation, HCML (CMSUK Director)

Carole Chantler, Director of Clinical Services, DWF (CMSUK Chair)

Nominee Biography:

Having started my career as an Occupational Therapist in 1998 in the NHS, I diversified into the world of injury management in 2002 in Australia. Returning to the UK, I worked at HCML as the Head of Clinical Services for over 6 years, where my role was fundamental to the training; clinical standards & quality of case managers. I continued to practise as a case manager, specialising in spinal cord injuries – using essential clinical skills I gained working within the NHS in specialist Neurology and Spinal Injury Units. I have since left the world of Personal Injury and am the Business Development Director for Corporate Wellbeing at Nuffield Health. I work closely together with large corporate and private medical insurance companies in identifying & implementing health and wellbeing strategies with the most cost effective solution and the best outcomes for their employees with the focus on physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

Nominee Aims for the 3 year Directorship:

Having already served a 3 year term as on the board of directors at CMSUK, my previous contribution was within the Education committee and utilising my experience as a case management within PI. With my change in role and being a supplier of services (Physiotherapy) to mainly the private medical insurance industry, I hope to bring diversity to CMSUK.

Private medical insurance pays for medical intervention and rehabilitation with often no guidance or governance as to what is the best treatment for the claimant. Services are often provided in a disjointed manner, however more and more insurers are appreciating the value that the case management model brings in managing these claims.

My aim as director would be to increase the exposure of CMSUK within the private medical insurance industry as well as reach out to those who are practising case management within this area.