A senior leadership role, reporting directly to the CPO and Executive Leadership Team on a wide range of activity including:- Assisting the University deliver upon Strategy 2030 and the ambitions set out in its Corporate Plan.- Managing the delivery of all Staff Health & Wellbeing activity for workforce (c. 4,600 employees) including contracted Occupational Health Services with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.- All Equality, Diversity and Inclusion activity for workforce - strategic and operational. - All statutory equality monitoring & reporting functions - Developing innovative best practice initiatives consolidating the University's reputation as a UK leader in workplace Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Staff Wellbeing.

Appointed to the Board of Directors at Employers Forum on Disability (NI)

Senior HR & OD Business Partner for the Northern Health & Social Care Trust (11,500 staff). Responsibility for providing both strategic & operational HR & OD support (full Employee Relations remit) to the following divisions - Medicine & Emergency Medicine; Surgery & Clinical Services; Women, Children & Family Services - within the Trust as part of its Reform & Modernisation Programme (RAMP).

• I was a Senior Transformational Change Lead and part of the TYC Senior Management Team reporting directly to two Assistant Directors in a PMO environment. • Supported the development and delivery of a number of highly strategic and complex programmes within health and social care, ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach to reform projects across Northern Ireland through effective project management, communication and consultation.• Responsible for managing and delivering evidence based and output focussed change initiatives via a range of complex, strategic and regional health and social care projects (value >£2m). Developed a £1.2m business case to support a new Diabetes Insulin Guidance System (DIGS) in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust Area.• Point for contact for senior politicians, Assembly representatives, Chief Executives of all Health and Social Care Trusts, key stakeholders such as Heads of the NI Ambulance Service, Public Health Agency, Patient Client Council and members of the public through town hall consultations on new projects and models of service delivery in primary and secondary care settings.

Responsible for advising the Commission on a wide range of strategic legal, HR, Organisational Design and Development and employee relations / communications issues.Led on the development and delivery of the first Judicial Diversity Strategy which was aimed at tackling gender under-representation at certain tiers of judicial office in NI. Developed a wide range of positive action measures, working closely with colleagues from the Department of Justice (DOJ), OFMDFM and the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (NICTS) in developing a new Policy for Judicial Succession Planning in Northern Ireland. Implemented a clear framework for effecting judicial appointments in Northern Ireland, and developed a Judicial Shadowing Scheme and an Outreach and Communications Strategy to encourage more applications to judicial office from under-represented groups. As a result the gender profile of judicial officers in Northern Ireland increased from 5% to 14% in 5 years.Also led on Northern Ireland’s first Judicial Flexible Working Policy and a separate Professional Mentoring and Development Policy.

Policy lead & advisor for a large public sector employer (10000 staff) on HR (Employee Relations), employment (including equality monitoring/diversity), conducting Article 55 Reviews and ensuring S.75 compliance, community/voluntary and statutory engagement, public consultation and delivering service wide training programmes.

Employment lawyer specialising in non contentious work and advising employers on a wide range of employment and HR issues.