Service Evaluation Lead, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; England

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 is passionate about working alongside and capturing the views of service users and carer representatives in her work.

Helen’s work has included applying a confidential inquiry model to suicides which occurred under BDCFT mental health services during years 2014-2020, drawing from the content of serious incident investigation reports.

In 2021, alongside a multi-disciplinary research team, Helen was successful in being awarded research funding from the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (NIHR funded). The funding was to undertake a study exploring approaches to learning from suicides occurring under Adult Community Mental Health Services. This study was successfully completed and a literature review has since been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin and an empirical paper is currently awaiting journal publication.