Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Helen qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2008 and then worked clinically within adult community mental health services using a range of trauma informed psychological therapies. Since 2015, she has worked in a service evaluation role exploring the approaches taken within acute community mental health services in order to inform service improvements. Helen has worked alongside service users and carer representatives in the undertaking of studies and also captured their perspectives within studies. Helen’s work has included applying a confidential inquiry model suicides which occurred under BDCFT mental health services during years 2014-2020, drawing from the content of serious incident investigation reports.