Friday 22 November, 2013
Fig Tree Function Room
Adelaide Zoo
Frome Road
ADELAIDE SA 5000
Cost: $30
09:00 am – 12:30 am: Principles of best practice in Later Life Mental Health: Let’s Respect (Again) TM
Nadine Schofield is the Founding Director of Let’s Respect LTD and has over 24 years’ experience and established networks across health and social care in the UK and Internationally. She was for four years the National Lead for Older People’s Mental Health with a responsibility for writing and implementing Department of Health Policy and for strategy, design and implementation of this at National, Regional and local levels.
She has considerable experience in all areas of later life mental health; a solid clinical and managerial background and, more latterly, the application of expertise in strategic service transformation and organisational change utilising Soft Systems Methodology and the application of collaborative and LEAN methodologies in both generic and mental health settings.
Nadine has lectured at pre, graduate and post-graduate levels at the Universities of Staffordshire and Wolverhampton and was responsible for the procurement of the renowned MSc in Dementia Care which has been offered by the University of Manchester since 2005. She is currently an expert advisor to the NIHR Funded PERFECTED research programme hosted by the University of East Anglia. This will develop and implement a standardised recovery care pathway for older people with dementia and fractured neck of femur involving 40 hospital sites in the UK.
In her National role Nadine led the development of the Let’s Respect campaign (launched 2006) which promoted attitudinal and behavioural change within generic nursing / care staff when responding to the challenges of later life mental health. Originally distributed to every general hospital within NHS England and across service improvement networks, Let’s Respect rapidly spread across the UK and beyond: resources were downloaded in 76 countries and boxes have been distributed in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South America. Nadine promoted the work extensively across the UK and Europe and presented Down Under in both 2008 and 2009.
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