Draft Programme
09:30-09:50 / Registration and Refreshments09:50-10:00 / Welcome & Introduction
Dr Liz Dawson
10:00-10:45 / Facilitator: Dr Liz Dawson
Mental health in doctors
Dr Ros Ramsey, Specialist Advisor, Psychiatrist Support Services
10:45-11:30 / Resilience in medical careers
Dr Emma Carroll, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Staff Wellbeing Northern Health & Social Care Trust
11:30-11:50 / Morning Refreshments
11:50-12:50 / Mentoring & the importance of building relationships within healthcare settings
Dr Jan Birtle, College Mentoring Lead
12:50-13:40 / Lunch & Poster Display
Facilitator: Dr Adele Swindles
13:40-13:45 / Welcome & Introductions
Dr Adele Swindles
13:45-14:45 / Quality Improvement
Dr Conor Barton, Consultant in Psychiatry of Old Age, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
14:45-15:45 / Promoting SAS doctor involvement in Quality Improvement
Representatives from NI Trusts Teams
15:45-16:30 / Sharing knowledge and experience: the Northern Trust SAS doctor CPD project
Dr Paul Darragh, Associate Specialist, Northern Health and Social Care Trust
16:30-16:40 / Closing remarks and feedback
Dr Liz Dawson & Dr Adele Swindles
Programme co-ordinators: Dr Liz Dawson & Dr Adele Swindles
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BIOGRAPHIES
Dr RosRamsey is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Director of the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group for Recovery Care Pathway and Lambeth. She wasrecently appointedSpecialist Advisor for the Psychiatrists’ Support Service at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Emma Carroll qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2010 and was based initially in the Belfast Trust Adult Health Service, where she provided guidance to the Occupational Health Service and supported the psychological well-being of staff. In February 2017, she joined the Northern Trust, as Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Staff Wellbeing, the first post of its kind in Northern Ireland. She is a trained Mindfulness Practitioner.
Dr Conor Barton is a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist in Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. He is regional representative to the Old Age Faculty of the RCPsych and an honorary lecturer at QUB. He likes talking about neuroanatomy too much.
Dr Paul Darragh trained in University College Dublin from 1978-1984 and has been a long-standing advocate for staff grade doctors and associate specialists. He served as Chair of BMA Northern Ireland from 2009 to 2014 and currently chairs BMA Northern Ireland's public health forum, and is a member of the its Board of Science. Presently, he is based in the Northern Trust as Antrim associate specialist in internal medicine
Trust Representatives
To be confirmed
Dr Jan Birtle is Associate Medical Director, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Psychotherapy Tutor at Worcestershire Health and Care Trust. She previously developed specialist services for people with personality difficulties and complex needs in Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT, leading the first mental health service to a successful bid for national funding.
She trained in Medicine at the University of Birmingham, specialising in Psychiatry before moving into medical education, taking up Lecturing posts at Sheffield then Birmingham University alongside clinical training in General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. She served as Tutor and Programme Director for Psychotherapy, Vice Chair of the Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
She is an Executive Coach, who leads WM Mentorship Programme for Psychiatrists. In 2017 she was appointed to the role of Specialist Advisor in Mentoring RCPsych. An important value running through Jan’s life is the belief that people can develop creativity and resilience if they can be helped to find ways to overcome the seemingly impossible barriers and blocks which all of us face at times. Although there are no easy solutions to tricky problems some ingredients such as space to think together, linking with others, maintaining hope and an open dialogue that acknowledges both personal tensions and the pressures of the wider world is an important step on the journey to recovery and discovery.