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Professional CILIP Knowledge Management Fellow enabling others to reach their full potential. Building confidence, capability and capacity for NHS knowledge specialists and librarians to deliver the ambitious vision of Knowledge for Healthcare “NHS bodies, their staff, learners, patients and the public use the right knowledge and evidence, at the right time, in the right place, enabling high quality decision-making, learning, research and innovation to achieve excellent healthcare and health improvement.” As a member of the NHS England Knowledge and Library Services Team I provide professional guidance and assure the delivery of high-quality knowledge and library services to NHS staff and learners. As a mentor for those working towards CILIP professional development I enjoy my conversations with other professionals and learning about the work they are involved with and challenges they face. I am an NHS Leadership Academy 360 facilitator. Focus on development of the specialist library and knowledge workforce, mentoring and role of librarians to manage knowledge and mobilise learning from experience. Putting knowledge and library services at the heart of effective learning health systems.Specialties: Strategic planning and delivery, staff development, workforce planning and development, knowledge management, negotiating, contract management, literature searching, critical appraisal of information, training adults to locate best sources of information, organisation of information, horizon scanning, blog and website creation, stakeholder engagement, advocacy, promotion, coaching, facilitating.

Listed skills include Strategic Thinking, Staff Development, Operating Budgets, Strategic Planning, and 22 others.