Fit for the Future-developing our workforce
The aims of the forum are to support research delivery staff by promoting collaborative working across the East Midlands, sharing information, learning from each other and generally to create an opportunity for networking.
A light lunch and refreshments were provided and there were opportunities for networking with colleagues across the region.
Agenda
The agenda from the day is below (Click to enlarge):
Venue
The 2023 Research forum took place at Trent Conference Centre, Unit 1, Easter Park Lenton Lane, Lenton, Nottingham NG7 2PX.
https://www.trentconferencecentre.co.uk/visiting
Speakers
Dr Janice Paterson
Janice has expertise as a former academic researcher and as a leader of change initiatives within the research delivery system. Janice joined the NIHR Clinical Research Network in 2011 and is currently Workforce Strategy Lead at the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) National Coordinating Centre. Janice is passionate about the impact of research and leads on Workforce and Professions initiatives to enable and support the workforce involved in delivering clinical research in the NHS and other health and care research settings, and is Lead for the Clinical Research Practitioner (CRP) Programme. Janice promotes the work of the team to enhance visibility of this vital workforce, doing so in partnership with national CRN Workforce Development Leads and CRP Engagement Leads in Local Clinical Research Networks . Through collaborative working with national organisations, Janice is committed to strategic improvement of systems that realise the impact of this work to help improve health and care for patients.
Antonella Ghezzi
I was recently appointed to the role of Assistant Chief Nurses for NMAHPs. I am a point of reference for nurses, midwives, health practitioners and allied health professionals with an interest in research. I am a registered nurse with over 20 years of experience in the NHS. I started my career as a health care assistant in a surgical ward. I moved on to become a registered nurse and developed specialist skills in emergency and intensive care units. In 2009, I joined the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Unit in Gastroenterology and Hepatology and settled into this field of practice. I loved my role as a research nurse and soon developed clinical and academic research skills. I then moved on to a senior management role. After obtaining a Master in Research Methods and Methodologies in 2012, I took on a new challenge. I moved to Cambridge and joined the NIHR Cambridge Clinical Research Facility as a Clinical Research Matron. Here, I learned valuable skills and knowledge in first in human and phase I clinical trials as well as leading and supporting a large team of health professionals. Two years later, I moved back to the Midlands where I continued to lead clinical research operations as well as workforce development at Nottingham University Hospitals. In 2019 I joined the University Hospitals of Leicester as Head of Research for NMAHPs. I have extensive skills and knowledge in research methods and methodologies and continue to support health professionals in pursuing a career in clinical and academic research.
John Castledine
John Castledine is Head of Learning Development & Design at the NIHR CRN National Coordinating Centre. John is responsible for ensuring the NIHR Clinical Research Network remains at the cutting edge of modern learning supported by advances in digital learning technology. Key responsibilities include management of the NIHR Learn LMS and GCP Education Suite. He is also the NIHR Business Lead for the NIHR-AoMRC Clinician Researcher Credentials Framework.
Previous roles held by John include, Director of Learning and Organisational Development at Pfizer Global Research and Development, Director of Learning Solutions at the Institute of Leadership & Management and Head of Qualifications at Healthcare Learning. Within all these roles, John has championed the use of learning technologies to empower learners, build communities and support organisational effectiveness. He is an advocate of Modern Workplace Learning, supporting informal and peer-to-peer learning alongside formal training courses and the value of curation to assist learners structure their own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Professor Ruth Endacott
Professor Ruth Endacott was appointed inaugural Director of Nursing and Midwifery at the National Institute for Heath and Care Research (NIHR) in May 2021.
In this newly created post, Ruth has responsibility for providing professional leadership for nurses and midwives who are supporting, delivering or leading research, promoting nursing and midwifery within the NIHR and beyond, and encouraging more professionals to become involved in research. Ruth is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Melbourne and Trustee/Director at the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC).
Kirsten Guy
Kirsten is a specialist stroke physiotherapist by background but is currently in a secondment role as the AHP Research Lead for Lincolnshire. The role sits across the Lincolnshire system with additional support provided by the University of Lincoln. Kirsten is passionate and very enthusiastic about research and in particular about bringing research opportunities to AHP’s and healthcare professionals for the benefit of patients, families and services.
Julia Wood
Julia provides Quality Improvement training and support to NHS organisations and teams.
She recognised early on that if people enjoyed their work the more likely it was that implementation of improvements were successful. She was therefore delighted when in 2017 the Institute of Healthcare Improvement published their Framework for Improving Joy in Work, and she subsequently joined their first cohort of training on this topic.
Her belief in the importance of Joy in Work has never wavered and she has since gone on to run the Improving Joy in Work Q Community Special Interest Group, which has more than 350 members.
Julia has worked for the NHS at a national, regional and local level, and very much enjoys supporting individual teams to make improvements. Unsurprisingly, she always makes sure that Joy in Work forms part of any training and support she delivers
Alison Hill
Alison is a Registered General Nurse with 39 years NHS nursing experience in a number of roles from, Clinical Development Nurse delivering training across general surgery & Surgical specialties, Deputy Sister /Team Lead Ophthalmology ward, Sister Eye Emergency & Ophthalmology OutPatients Department. She holds a Specialist Ophthalmic Nursing qualification, and was successful in securing a 12 month scholarship through the UHL Brenda Wallam Scholarship Scheme - setting up the first Nurse led minor eyelid cyst surgery clinic in UHL in 1999. With 17 years of Clinical Research experience, which started in Ophthalmology in 1998 as a dual role of Specialist Ophthalmic Nurse/Research Nurse supporting commercial and non commercial research. In 1999 Alison took on the Lead Research Nurse role for a Clinical Academic Ophthalmology & Genetics collaborative research study 'low prevalence of genetic mutation in UK POAG patients' (published paper Journal of Human Genetics 2004). She joined the LNR Comprehensive Local Research Network in 2009 as Lead Nurse for the Research Taskforce, and subsequently Clinical Research Nurse Manager for the CRN East Midlands Research Support Team. More recently she joined the CRN EM Workforce Development Team as Workforce Facilitator in 2022 to deliver on a number of workforce initiatives primarily to engage and support those new to research, to develop our future PI/CI Clinicians, to enable them to deliver and lead on NIHR portfolio research.
Bruno Mafrici
Bruno Mafrici (Msc, API, SP RD) is a Clinical Specialist Renal dietitian/non-medical prescriber and dietetics lecturer at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He has over 20 years of experience and has an interest in kidney nutrition and he recently completed the Associated Principal Investigator scheme. He is the previous Chair of the Renal Nutrition Group (RNG) of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) (2018-2022) and current author and editor of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition 2018, as well as national guidelines.
Presentations
Below are pdf versions of the presentation slides from the day:
10.10 - Julia Wood - Joy in Work - Download pdf presentation / Download MP4 Video
10.55 - Janice Patterson - CRP Registration Journey - Download pdf presentation
11.45 - Antonella Ghezzi - CRP Voices - Download pdf presentation
12.10 - John Castledene - Clinician Researcher Credentials - Download pdf presentation
12.35 - Kirsten Guy - Supporting AHPs to get involved in Research - Download pdf presentation
14.00 - Prof Ruth Endacott - Developing the Research Nursing and Midwifery Workforce - Download pdf presentation
14.25 - Alison Hill/Bruno Mafrici - The Journey to becoming an Associate Principal Investigator - Download pdf