The Telos Team for 2011
Ben Bano, M.Sc (Oxon), CQSW, DMS, LTh, has been a social worker for 38 years and was Director of Older Peoples services in East Kent Mental Health Partnership Trust from 2002 to 2005. In 2007 he founded Telos Training and he has delivered a range of training workshops across a range of subjects in mental health care and dementia across the statutory and non-statutory sector. Ben’s interests include social inclusion, the spiritual and holistic dimension to care as well as leadership training for middle-management staff as well as senior practitioners.
Ben produced the recent DVD ‘Its still ME, Lord’ for Caritas Social Action Network, as well as on-line learning resource. Recent publications include an article on ‘Positive aspects of the fourth age’ (with Professor Susan Benbow). He has also co-authored a chapter on spirituality and dementia for a forthcoming book to be published by Pavilion Publications in Spring 2011. He has contributed to a number of workshops on the theme of spirituality in health and social care. In the course of 2010 Ben has delivered workshops on spirituality and dementia across England and Wales to more than 500 people. In 2011 Ben will be involved in a major church based training programme on mental health issues and local Churches.
He is also a member of a newly established project inquiry panel into positive ageing chaired by Baroness Young and hosted by the Mental Health Foundation. Ben has also been involved in the delivery of action learning sets for senior social care staff in mental health services and over the last year he has been working on leadership development with staff from eight local authorities in Sussex, South West London, and Cumbria. Ben is also a local Councillor and is serving as Mayor of Deal for 2010-2011.
Kate Dawson, BA, MSW, CQSW, MBA, MA has almost 30 years experience working in the public sector and in the mental health field. She originally qualified as a social worker in 1983 and remains registered. She has worked as a front line social work practitioner, primarily in the mental health field, and worked in a range of operational and strategic management roles. She has managed forensic, working age and older peoples services.
Kate has extensive experience in leadership and staff management. She has worked closely for many years with the voluntary sector developing services that are truly person centred. She was a founding director of a respected women and mental health service. Kate has been a Professional Head of Social Work in the NHS, worked as the Director of Social Care in an NHS Trust and was also the Director of Older People’s services. More recently Kate worked as Head of Strategic Commissioning in a local authority. Kate now works independently as a trainer and consultant.
Kate is committed to supporting effective organisational, managerial and staff processes to achieve organisational tasks. She has pursued this interest through a Masters in Psychoanalytic Approaches to Organisational Consultancy at the Tavistock Clinic. She has led major change programs to achieve more responsive and personalised services. Throughout her work she has been committed to supporting the development of services run and/ or shaped by experts by experience. Kate is an approved trainer for the Mental Health First Aid program (www.mhfa.org) and is passionate about expanding understanding of mental health and reducing fear and stigma.
Professor Peter Gilbert, M.A.(Oxon)., M.Soc.Wk., MBA, is Emeritus Professor of Social Work and Spirituality at Staffordshire University, and Visiting Professor with the University of Worcester. Peter has had a long career in social work and was Director of Social Services for Worcestershire County Council. Peter was the NIMHE Project Lead on Spirituality from its inception to 31st March, 2008, and now works to the National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum. From 2008 to 2010 he was Chair of the National Development Team for Inclusion and Visiting Professor at the Birmingham and Solihull Foundation NHS Trust, leading their Spirituality research programme. A former Director of Social Services for Worcestershire, Peter is a registered Social Worker with 13 years of direct practice. Between 2003 and 2006 he was NIMHE/SCIE Fellow in Social Care with Professor Nick Gould, and is now a member of the NMHDU's Equalities Programme Board.
His latest publications are: Social Work and Mental Health: the Value of everything (with colleagues) in 2010; a leadership development pack, with Dr Neil Thompson; editing a special edition of Mental Health, Religion and Culture; co-editing a special edition of The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services (June, 2010, with Professor Bill Fulford) and a chapter on his experience of mental illness: in Basset and Stickley's : Voices of Experience: Narratives of survival and mental health. A Pavilion Handbook on Spirituality and Mental Health is due in spring 2011.
Peter is Consultant to the Church based Mental Health Project Training Project and will be delivering some of the workshops.
Liz Sheehy, MA, has a background in Communications. She specialises in team and leadership development and works for a third sector organisation. She works with Ben in providing action learning sets for social care staff in Mental Health services. Liz leads for Telos on Equality and Diversity issues ,as well as the ‘Valuing Ourselves’ Programme which works with practitioners in focusing and refocusing on their core professional values in relation to their work. Liz is particularly interested in staff development programmes, including away days, using approaches based on Values Based Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. Her recent work with Telos has focused on coaching Senior Practitioners in undertaking change and improvement projects in a Mental Health Trust.
Liz also leads the Telos programme on the Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Liz is currently involved in a staff development programme in West London on the Mental Capacity Act commissioned by the PCT and Social Services.
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