Bernie Carr Cfiia Cia Cmiia Qica Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

ACTION (ALCOHOL CARE TEAM INNOVATION AND OPTIMISATION NETWORK) - COLLEGE CENTRE FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (CCQI)• Participate in peer reviews: as part of a team, to review and verify the results of the self-review and raise any comments or queries with the other peer-review team members.• Sit on Steering Group: to inform the quality improvement, methods, and areas of focus. Steer the direction of the project and ensure it remains relevant to members & people using services.FACULTY OF ADDICTIONS - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE• Attend Committee Meetings and contribute to all Committee Activities.• Ensure that the views and perspectives of people with lived experience of ongoing engagement with specialist addictions services are included in all relevant Faculty activities.CO-PRODUCTION TRAINING - LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT • Work with Learning and Development to become proficient in delivery of Co-Production Training.• Deliver Co-Production training across the College as part of a multi-disciplinary team.PATIENT AND CARER CONFERENCES - CCQI• Plan for and develop the twice-yearly Conferences as part of a multi-disciplinary team.• Co-facilitate group discussions with Conference delegates.

London, United Kingdom

• Locally, at Bromley Drug and Alcohol Service, set up Service User Council and implemented succession planning to ensure its continuance. Practiced as a peer mentor with responsibilities within Design for Life (primarily after care). Volunteered as a group facilitator taking clients through the Life module of Change Grow Live's Foundations of Recovery. Employed at Lewisham to facilitate PSI sessions• Nationally, represents the East/London/South East Region reporting to one of Change Grow Live’s Directors. Serves on National Lived Experience Group. Represents NLEG on strategic national meetings to help further Change Grow Live's aims. Works with Business Development to bid against tenders for new and existing business, contributing to written bids and presenting bids to Commissioners.

• Prepared questions and suggested answers for the twice yearly diet of examinations on the Business Information Systems Paper of the CMIIA qualification• Marked papers and published examiner’s comments alongside suggested answers• Liaised with tuition providers (Universities) as required

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for restructuring the Service Management Directorate to align with ITIL best practice and drive a centrally coordinated business operation• Significantly increased service delivery, later benchmarked, across the Group• Liaised with procurement and financial experts and external IT service providers• Ensured compliance to all group wide standards in relation to business matters• Financial accountability for the £150m budget within pre-agreed tolerances• Provided management information to assist in staff resource decision making• Identified significant savings relating to the use of contractors and consultants• Maintained relationships with suppliers & applied competitive tendering processes• Engaged with primary IT suppliers to facilitate better working relationships

London, United Kingdom

• Project managed a major life extension of the Unysis Legacy system across 16 sites• Prepared business case, agreed project finance & negotiated supplier contracts• Liaised with Unisys on all aspects of project planning and risk management• Reported on project progress to the client during UAT and Pilot site phases• Prepared exit management plan with Fujitsu, later benchmarked as best practice• Coordinated Libra Gateway 4 review and enabled roll out to commence

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for setting up Finance & Control operations for the newly formed group• Established a branch of 20 staff following IT Shared Services mapping process• Finalised new chart of accounts to reflect the IT Shared Services structure• Aligned job responsibilities with Directorate needs and restructured budgets• Managed the transition of other departments into the new ITSS structure• Managed a £0.25bn eDG budget within agreed HM Treasury tolerance levels• Dealt with many high profile business issues involving high level briefings with Ministers

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for establishing the Project Support Office on the centralisation project• Worked closely with Fujitsu Services & other internal governmental departments• Financial management, with a capital grant and expenditure of £120m per annum• Assessed and reported on the core benefits to be achieved by Libra application• Led the contract management team & worked on the Libra Gateway 3 review

Qica, Computer Auditing, Professional Qualification

Studied to gain QiCA qualification

Cmiia, Internal Auditing, Professional Qualification

Gias, Internal Auditing, Diploma