Sheffield Health and Social Care, England

Salli is the Executive Director of Nursing, Professions and Quality at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and has over 30 years of experience in mental health clinical services.

Salli is a proud registered mental health nurse who has worked within in a range of mental health services across Yorkshire and the Humber. Predominantly, her clinical practice was focussed on inpatient services with adults and older adults. Latterly, Salli led work nationally on reducing restrictive interventions with NHS England, as well as leading national quality improvement projects in child and adolescent mental health services and learning disability and autism services. She has delivered focussed projects related to human rights, patient experience and seclusion. This includes leading a national taskforce for children and young people’s mental health inpatient services, whilst also leading the Improving Quality Team in the national Learning Disability and Autism Programme which she still advises on.

Salli is a Fellow at the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Academy, a Trustee for the Restraint Reduction Network and a member of the national HOPE(S) programme to reduce segregation across England. Salli also co-hosts the national positive and safe working group for mental health providers in England.

Salli is particularly passionate about improving quality for the people who get the worst quality of care, including those from ethnic and racial minorities. She is extremely passionate about co-production and believes that it is central to the way that healthcare improvement should work. This includes co-production that involves service users, carers and families, and frontline staff.