• Head of Wellbeing, Culture and Development, NHS Grampian
• Responsible for leading and supporting a newly forming service bringing together staff wellbeing, organisational development, learning and development and staff experience functions for NHS Grampian.
• Interested in leading and creating conditions for systems leadership approaches to thrive within complex health and social care systems
• 2018 GenerationQ Fellow

Jason is currently the Head of Wellbeing, Culture and Development for NHS Grampian.  He began his career as a physiotherapist, before moving into roles in risk management, health care governance and senior operational roles.  He has worked in NHS Grampian since 1996, and as an senior operational leader for the last 12 years until July 2023 when he moved into his current role.

Jason is responsible for leading and supporting the strategic approaches to staff wellbeing, organisational culture and workforce development approaches through a relational leadership approach; as well as for adopting and promoting an ethos of continuous improvement within an evolving integrated health and social care system.

Jason is committed to transforming the way in which our pathways, places and culture evolve in Grampian, across health and social care, including primary and secondary care. He most recently focussed on the whole system redesign of the older peoples pathway as a pathway transformation 'pathfinder' process of redesign.  This involved identifying the current way in which the complex system operated, and facilitating a cross-agency redesign of this pathway to become a fit-for-purpose approach for the future.  He explains how the GenerationQ fellowship helped him with this ambitious improvement project: ‘This was a significant scale of improvement, but one that I could sense was ripe for developing in the local context, given policy drivers for change, local conditions seeking change and resource provision to support transformational change.’

The multi-agency spread of the GenerationQ fellowship was of particular interest to Jason, as he found this ‘invaluable in challenging my perspective and in building effective cross-agency networks’. Jason said the experience: ‘hugely improved my self-awareness as a leader, and awareness of my own organisational context which further improved my personal effectiveness, both within my area of responsibility and on a wider, whole-system basis.’