AFPP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Director
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Interim CEO
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Non - Elected Trustee
Alison has previously collaborated with AfPP within her current role at Becton Dickinson UK Ltd (BD), working as a Senior Clinical Consultant. More specifically in her role, Alison focuses on Infection Prevention and Biosurgery.
Alison has a strong working knowledge of the NHS, as well as the economic and regulatory environment. She strives to deliver strong engagement and advocacy with customers and external stakeholders, including the NHS at all levels, regulatory bodies, and scientific and clinical associations. Alison also excels at delivering clinical solutions that drive patient safety, experiences and outcomes to high-level clinical and academic thought leaders.
Within her role at Becton Dickinson UK Ltd, Alison also acts as a coach and mentor for national and international clinical leaders to enable effective platforming of value-based care, that includes BD solutions. In addition, she also provides training to sales team and their customers at a tactical level, providing tools and resources enabling them to work effectively.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Professional Advisor to AfPP Charity and Director
David is a Chartered Accountant and joined the Board in January 2018. After many years as a Partner in private practice, David set up his own business advisory company in April 2016. He now holds a number of non-executive roles and provides advisory services to a broad range of businesses. His work principally relates to financial matters and business development. He was for over 12 years a trustee and treasurer of a leading local Charity and is now a trustee of a charity that provides access to the countryside for people with disabilities. He has extensive third sector and business experience.
David's interests include football, golf, skiing and walking, which with a new four legged addition to the family he now gets plenty of opportunities to practice.
Dawn has worked in healthcare for around 28 years in many different roles. During that time she undertook an Open University Certificate in Management which provided the learning to underpin her knowledge and experience.
Dawn worked for a private hospital group in various different roles and has managed a 9,000 patient GP practice in Headingley, Leeds. This provided her with an all-round understanding of healthcare from primary care commissioning through to secondary care intervention.
Her previous roles have included commissioning new hospital builds, commissioning new GP surgery builds, IT implementation programs, customer care training strategies including human factors and quality improvement initiatives. She has a strong interest in writing and has had many articles published in the trade presses. She is an active volunteer with the Prince's Trust mentoring young people starting out in their own new businesses.
Dawn joined AfPP in June 2009 as Director of Operations and moved into the role of CEO in October 2009.
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Trustee
- ODP Team Leader
Jennifer is an ODP Team Leader and a Clinical Skills Facilitator. She has over 23 years' experience in and around theatres. Most of these years were spent in large adult trusts in Liverpool, with the last 5 years in Paediatrics in Alder Hey Hospital. Jennifer has an ILM level 3 in Leadership & Management and is currently studying a level 5 Coaching qualification. She is also a trained Human Factors trainer.
Jennifer has a keen interest is in Human Factors and the impact on patient safety. Recently she has been part of a core team developing a new programme to create a safer way of working in teams, using Human factors, Simulation and Coaching as the core of the programme. She feels her vast experience and skills across the many specialities help her to understand the needs and the many challenges theatre staff can face day to day. Jennifer believes that we can coach our teams into overcoming and maybe preventing some of these challenges.
John qualified as an Operating Department Assistant in 1983 based then in Norwich and worked at a few hospitals around the UK before taking up a role in 2004 as lecturer in Operating Department Practice at the University of Leicester.
John retired in November 2021 but remains as a visiting lecturer and Perioperative Consultant. He regularly spends time in theatres to keep up to date with current practice and developments. He feels it imperative in his role to maintain one's clinical credibility.
John joined the then NATN in 1998 and has been a member of the AfPP Governance Committee since 2014 and was elected as a Trustee in November 2017 and President in January 2021.
John currently represents AfPP on the Board of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) and the International Federation of Perioperative Nurses (IFPN). John is also very involved in updating the HCPC ODP Standards of Proficiency and in projects with Health Education England which will chart the future of Perioperative practice.
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Trustee
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Elected Trustee
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Non - Elected Trustee
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Non - Elected Trustee
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Elected Trustee
- Member of NATN
Maxine began her theatre career in 1992 as a newly qualified nurse. Over the last 30 years she has worked primarily as a scrub practitioner within general, urology, colorectal and vascular surgery and rotationally in PACU. She was the theatre education co-ordinator at the Princess Alexandra Hospital Harlow. In January 2009 she became the Matron for theatres, post anaesthetic care unit, day surgery theatres, pre assessment and the acute pain service. Maxine is also an associate lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University on the ODP degree programme.
Maxine is passionate about education and the development of staff. She has devised roles, training programmes and competencies within theatres and PACU at Princess Alexandra Hospital to foster staff development and growth. She has shared her educational experiences at several conferences, including AfPP's Annual Conference, to inform, support and energise theatre practitioners around education and its importance.
Maxine is equally passionate about patient safety, quality and providing a positive patient experience. She works collaboratively with patients and relatives to improve care and service delivery.
Maxine is a mental health first aider and is committed to staff health and well-being.
Maxine has been a member of NATN latterly AfPP since 1992. During this time she has been a link member, Educators SIG Lead and an AfPP Consultant for theatre accreditations.
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- Trustee
Job Titles:
- Member of the AfPP Board
- President Elect
Oliver started with the in NHS 1999 at the Liverpool Royal Hospital, qualifying as an Operating Department Practitioner in 2008. Post qualification, he worked at the Liverpool Heart and Chest before moving to The Walton Centre in 2013. Oliver became a Band 6 Clinical Skills Facilitator in 2015 and then a Band 7 Practice Education Facilitator in 2017.
Throughout his career Oliver has always had a passion for education and he won The Walton Centre "Best Contribution to Education" Award in 2016. Recently, Oliver has become an accredited Applied Human Factors Trainer and qualified Workplace Mediator. He has been an AfPP Trustee since 2021.
Job Titles:
- President of the AfPP Board
- Member of NATN
Ruth is currently a Nurse Development Lead with responsibility for co-ordinating education and training, practice development, clinical workforce and governance. Whilst she is an adult trained nurse, this role is within a paediatric setting and therefore she is responsible for almost 500 nurses. Her role extends to the perioperative environment. Ruth is a theatre nurse by background with over 20 years' experience within the perioperative environment and continues to undertake a clinical shift each week.
Ruth's main areas of interest are education, governance, infection prevention and control, person-centered care and patient and staff experience. She is an advocate for patient and staff safety and the development of safe, caring and confident practitioners within the perioperative environment and is passionate regarding the development of safe cultures and inclusivity regarding all roles within the perioperative setting. Her areas of expertise include the above and clinically, orthopaedics, general surgery, vascular, plastics, neuro and ophthalmology.
Ruth has been a member of NATN, and subsequently AfPP, since 2005 and was originally a member of the Brunel Branch. She was involved in the Northern Ireland branch with responsibility for membership and then became the Regional Lead for Northern Ireland. She now supports the Lead as part of the team in Northern Ireland.
Ruth has represented AfPP in relation to OneTogether, HIS and NAP6 and provides consultancy support to the Association. Ruth currently sits on the Governance Committee and considers it a privilege to contribute in this way.