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Helen Crimlisk

Deputy Medical Director, Director of Undergraduate Psychiatry, Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust Generation Q Fellow

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Biography

Helen is a consultant Adult psychiatrist who trained in London at Guy's Hospital Medical School, Institute of Neurology, Maudsley and Bethlem NHS Trust and now works as Deputy Medical Director at Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust.

She undertook a Masters in Quality Improvement and Leadership at Ashridge Buisness College sponsored by the Health Foundation .

She is Associate Registrar for Leadership and Management at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and oversees the National Leadership Fellowship Programme which is accredited by the Faculty of Leadership and Management and supporting the College Engagement Network supporting work with NHSE/I on the Community Mental Health Framework.

She also has an interest in Workforce Development and is completing project currently leading on the development of Physician Associates in Mental Health with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and researching into workforce innovation.

She is Associate Director  of Teaching at Sheffield Medical School where she is delivering a Strategy around integrating Physical and Mental Health learning opportunities with a view to promoting both the specialism of psychiatry and interest in mental health to medical students. She is particularly passionate about innovative teaching methodologies, the use of lived experience in learning and teaching, reflective practice and the medical humanities.


Q Exchange ideas

  • Development of peer led Narrative Masterclasses for students, codesigned and codelivered by staff and citizens of Sheffield

    We would like to scale up our Narrative Masterclass to benefit wider groups students, staff and citizens of Sheffield This is a coproduced, codesigned 5 week 2 1/2 day course using narrative enquiry to give meaning to people’s lives through restorying techniques, creative approaches and reframing methodologies. These groups have been evaluated as providing benefits to all participants, including medical students. We would like to trial other students and learners who are also staff members. (see: http://www.storyingsheffield.com/stories/in-my-own-words-narrative-masterclass/ ). Specifically, we have 3 aims: (now edited to include 4 aims) 1 use coaching methodology to develop 5 new peer facilitators 2 offer 5 additional courses with a wider remit of staff and students from a wider range of health and social care professions 3 broaden the range of peer/citizen participants in the courses focussing particularly on more disenfranchised groups (mental health, learning disability, long term conditions) and those from more diverse backgrounds 4 consider testing a “virtual” course using Skype or FaceTime -which might be particularly helpful for people’s with health co diction’s which make it difficult to get out or who might find it difficult to make a session. During conventional working hours, Key words: story, narrative, recovery, creative, learning, coproduction, codesign, codelivery, participatory, staff wellbeing, burnout, compassion,coaching, quality improvement, service user engagement, diversity, reframing,

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  • Diet and mental illness: How can we do more?

    To develop and test a guide on how teams can support people with mental illness to improve their diets, and improve their physical and mental health, based on evidence-based approaches.


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