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Alan Stirling appointed as Hospital Manager for The Southleigh Community

Alan Stirling has been appointed as the Hospital Manager for The Southleigh Community based in South Croydon. He will take up his post from 1st December 2008.

Alan joins us from the West London Mental Health Trust, where he was an Associate Service Director at Broadmoor Hospital, a 300 bed high secure facility in Berkshire. Alan has held a number of senior clinical and managerial roles over his years at Broadmoor. His most recent role was to lead a team in closing the Women’s Service at Broadmoor and moving the women out to alternative placements, predominantly to a new enhanced medium secure facility in Ealing. This work involved not just the detailed planning required to move a whole service safely out of a high secure environment, but also ensuring training for staff to work in new ways in a new environment and negotiating the re-deployment of staff from the Womens Service into the male services at the hospital.

Alan has also led the development of various new services within Broadmoor, including:

• A contemporary Physical Health Care Service set in a modern Health Centre, where patients could access a GP,  Nurse Practitioner, Dentist, Radiographer, Podiatrist etc, mirroring the range of services that patients would expect to have access to in the wider community
• A ‘Structured Group-work Programme’ delivering a range of psychological interventions led by Psychologists and Nurse Therapists
• An Assertive Rehabilitation facility which was both hospital and community based, aimed at re-skilling patients who had become de-skilled in social/community interaction due to years of hospitalisation in a high secure setting. For this particular piece of work, Alan achieved success in the annual Nursing Times/3M nurse of the year awards

Alan has a particular interest in the development of the role of the nurse and has past experience in Practice Development and as Nurse Advisor at Broadmoor. His particular interest is in Clinical Supervision and he has developed and delivered training in clinical supervision, something he feels that this is vital in ensuring both reflective learning and safe practice within nursing.

Alan is particularly looking forward to maximising the potential of the Recovery Model at Southleigh and one of his first priorities will be to extend the current team through the appointment of an OT and a Social Worker.
9th December 2008

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