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A special all-day ACP-UK webinar event

Hosted by the Leadership Network

17 October 2023

This event showcases the different ways in which we can have leadership roles, in both the standard and the less obvious or conventional ways. By attending, we hope you gain knowledge from our speakers, contribute your reflections and leave feeling inspired to think about leadership in all its varied forms. This event is relevant to all grades of psychologists at different stages of their leadership journey.

You are welcome to attend the event flexibly, and come to part of the day or the whole event. We will try to keep to the timings as much as possible but may need to tweak the schedule on the day.

Programme:

Our Speakers

Professor Mike Wang

A founding member of ACP-UK, our Chair Mike Wang is an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Leicester. A qualified clinical neuropsychologist, Mike has a special interest in states of consciousness during general anaesthesia and the prevention and treatment of psychological trauma arising in anaesthetic and surgical contexts, and continues to see people clinically who have acquired brain injury. He has been involved in clinical psychology training for 30 years and led the Hull and Leicester training courses. He was UK Chair of the Division of Clinical Psychology in 2002/3 and led the move to backfill arrangements for DCP Officers and the introduction of service user representation in the DCP. He represented the DCP on New Ways of Working for Psychiatrists and subsequently co-led the Training Project Group on New Ways of Working in Applied Psychology. Mike has served as an expert member of a NICE clinical guidance committee. He has clinical psychology contacts in many other countries and am familiar with the politics and history of the profession in European, American, African and Asian contexts. Mike has a longstanding interest in, and commitment to, diversity, inclusion, spirituality and cultural competence. He is of dual ethnic heritage and was born and brought up in the North of England.

Dr Sonya Wallbank

Sonya is the Chief People Officer for Sirona, a social enterprise organisation delivering NHS services and a Leadership Consultant for the Kings Fund. She has a background as a consultant clinical psychologist and specialises in workforce resilience and restorative approaches to wellbeing. She has worked in the NHS as a director of service delivery and workforce, leading complex change and improvement programmes for NHS England and NHS Improvement, including the delivery of the health and wellbeing response for NHS staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sonya has also led HR services and operating model change for the Department of Health and Social Care and worked directly with organisations, teams and individuals wanting to change how they work in the UK, Australia, and the US. She has authored materials to enable organisations to embed their own approach to restorative supervision. Sonya lectures on how focusing supervision and support on the needs of the individual, not just the work they deliver reduces stress, burnout and improves the pleasure people derive from their work.

Dr Becky Chasey

Becky is currently Co-Chair of the ACP-UK Climate Action Network. Having trained in Clinical and Community Psychology, her career in clinical health psychology, most recently leading a Pain Psychology Team, has now led her to found her independent practice ‘Sustain Psychology.’ Becky has supported Creative Artists and Climate Scientists in their climate leadership work and also runs climate cafés supporting members of the public to manage their climate concerns. She is passionate about empowering individuals to lean into difficult experiences, to find their way and to do what matters in the face of life’s uncertainties.

Dr Sarah Swan

Sarah was Borough Head of Psychology & Psychotherapy at South London & The Maudsley NHS Trust before leaving the NHS in 2019.  She now runs a successful independent practice offering psychological therapy herself and with associates, supervising and coaching other psychologists. Sarah also acts as an expert witness and delivers sessions for businesses in relation to employee wellbeing. She was previously an ACP-UK Director and currently leads the Independent Practice Network.  She has also authored the first of the ACP-UK Coping With…. book titles and is the editor for the series.

Dr Karen Barton

Karen has more than 20 years experience in health services; she works with adult clients, and also extensively with NHS and third sector staff teams offering supervision, training and reflective practice. She has worked in independent practice since 2007, and solely independently since 2016. Her practice is based in Birmingham and practice associates extend the services on offer throughout the West Midlands

Dr Natalie Bodart

Natalie is a senior clinical psychologist and the founder and director of The Bodart Practice; a holistic psychology practice based in London and outreaching worldwide. She founded the practice based on an understanding that mental health is more than mind alone. Together with her team of psychologists, therapists and holistic practitioners she provides therapy clinics, courses, workshops and retreats for individuals, couples, senior leaders, and organisations. The practice is passionate about destigmatising mental health and bringing their work out into community spaces, charities and festivals.

Dr Ellie Atkins

Ellie is currently the Lead Psychologist for the London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network, and has many years’ experience in Paediatric Psychology at St George’s Hospital, London, in CAMHS and private practice. She is the Lead for ACP-UK’s Children, Young People and Families’ Network. Ellie’s career includes almost 30 years working with children, young people and families, in both in the public sector and in independent practice seeing children and families in distress.

Dr Fiona Summers

Fiona is passionate about what clinical psychology as a profession can bring to the table – whether it be in the NHS, independent practice or in the wider context with our experts by experience and the general public.  Her clinical specialty is in neuropsychology.  Prior to psychology Fiona was in the RAF, taught in a school in a black homeland in South Africa during apartheid, and worked in social work and grow up in a small island in the South Pacific called Kiribati.  As Director for Scotland her role on the Board is to ensure that Scotland is actively involved and represented in any ACP-UK discussions and to consider where our experiences and challenges differ given our healthcare system, legal system and government where many issues relating to clinical psychology are devolved. She also commits to taking a leadership role in any consultations within Scotland that our members feel we have a duty to respond too.

Forgotten Lives UK

Mark Oakley and Nikola Brigden are Leads for patient campaign group Forgotten Lives UK. Together with Professor Martin Eve they founded a group that went from zero to several thousand members in a matter of weeks. The group campaigns for care and medical support for the approximately 1.2m immunosuppressed and immunocompromised people in the United Kingdom who have conditions that render them more vulnerable to Covid-19, in particular through their compromised or complete lack of vaccine antibodies. The group advocates for their ongoing protection through prophylaxis and other preventative measures. It is also highly aware of the vulnerable mental health situations of the many immunocompromised and immunosuppressed people around the UK who are still leading isolated lives. The group has captured the attention of MPs, members of the House of Lords, national media, senior clinicians and NICE, whose clinicians have agreed to change the speed of their assessment protocols as a result of the Forgotten Lives campaign. Mark and Nikola are also focused on creating international coalitions with a shared interest in raising these and to create mutual support networks across different countries.