Amanda Mcgough Email and Phone Number

I run my own wellbeing and coaching consultancy, based on Stokesley Business Park. I design training programmes for companies and organisations, focusing on staff wellbeing and emotional intelligence. I also offer individual consultations for private clients for performance and emotional intelligence coaching.I work closely with my clients to ensure individual programmes deliver interactive and responsive training and coaching to help their business grow, boost productivity and ensure a healthy organisational culture.

This is a new pilot service for NHS patients across Redcar and Cleveland. I see patients for an initial Wellbeing consultation to assess how well they are sleeping, eating, managing at work, coping with stress and whether they are undertaking any physical exercise and building time for rest and relaxation. We take baseline health measures and each patient receives a personal Wellbeing plan. Suitable patients are referred to an integral Mindfulness programme and return to see me for a final Wellbeing review before discharge. The service has been funded from South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group Mental Health Innovation funding.

I work with the NHS Audit One as an Associate Clinical Specialist, providing clinical insight, experience and healthcare governance experience to their portfolio of internal audits with local NHS Foundation Trusts. As an experienced Senior Nurse and Manager, I conduct fieldwork, clinical observations, examine Trusts' governance framework in clinical areas and interview senior clinicians and managers to ensure that the clinical aspects of the audits are fully examined and any associated risks are identified in the assurance process so that the client receives a comprehensive assurance report.

I work with clients, private and public sector companies to deliver health and well-being programmes for individuals and teams. My focus starts with improving sleep management, stress management and developing resilience, for teams and individuals. I work with clients to develop a health and well-being plan (including sleep management, nutrition, hydration, physical exercise, resilient thinking, relaxation, improving energy levels). The plan is designed to be practical, sustainable and easily fit into the client's life.I believe that small changes, embedded into a new routine, can make a big difference to people's health and well-being.

I worked at TEWV Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust from January to December 2017 as the co-lead for their Staff Mindfulness Service in January 2017 for one year, in the first instance. The TEWV Mindfulness team are led by Dr Paul Bernard and Jo Cromarty and the team are innovators in their field and are highly respected (winning national and local awards). Dr Bernard is an Associate Member of the Oxford Mindfulness service and the team have developed their Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teacher training programme in 2016, following the national Teacher Assessment Criteria for MBCT teachers.

I was part of the Screening and Immunisation Team, based in the NHS England Area Team. My portfolio included non cancer screening, including antenatal and newborn screening, Triple A (abdominal aortic aneurysm) screening and diabetic eye screening.

I worked in the CFSME specialist team, based in the Centre for Clinical Infection at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough. We developed a specialist, multidisciplinary rehabilitation for patients diagnosed with CFSME. We designed the GRIP small group rehabilitation programme to teach patients about CFSME with the emphasis on helping patients to manage this as a long term condition.I delivered specialist energy and fatigue management advice, individual health and well being personal management plans for patients. I provided specialist advice on energy management and well being at work, phased returns to work for Occupational Health and employers in managing sickness absence.I taught professional and personal resilience skills for staff and patients and worked to develop patients’ self management skills to promote responsibility for their own health. I was involved in group teaching and the provision of clinical data for health outcomes for planning and commissioning.During this time, I was a founder member of the Royal College of Nursing Specialist Interest Group for CFS/ME and we published papers in national health care journals and presented at national conferences.I also organised and presented at our CFS/ME conference in April 2012 which aimed to raise awareness of CFS/ME across the local NHS community with former patients talking about their recovery and their experience of living with CFS/ME.

I worked as the Clinical Effectiveness Lead for the Healthcare Governance Team, based in the Directorate of Public Health in the PCT. I delivered Evidence-based Practice training, co-ordinated national and local clinical audits of care and wrote the NICE strategy for the PCT.I designed and ran a new PCT-wide audit of Coronary Heart Disease using the new QOF indicators, co-ordinated the PCT and GP practices in new National Audit of Diabetes and RCP National Audit of Stroke.I was a tutor and co-ordinator for Hambleton and Richmondshire PCT and North Tees PCT Evidence-based Practice programme for GPs, Practice Nurses and Commissioners.

In my role as Clinical Effectiveness Advisor for the Trust, I was the lead for the organisation in the identification of new health care research and it's potential application and likely impact on clinical care pathways.I organised and delivered Evidence-Based Health Care training for senior clinicians and managers and developed training packages for the organisation.I worked in the Health Care Governance team under the leadership of the Nursing and Medical Directors and helped the organisation develop it's strategy for NICE guidance, working in partnership with other local NHS organisations.