Cath Heaney
Catherine Heaney is an Improvement Advisor in the Quality Improvement department supporting our Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) and Specialist Child & Young Person Services (SCYPS) Directorates.
Cath joined the Trust in December 2019, following 18 years in the NHS. She has worked in a range of health and care settings, including primary, community and hospital based, as well as a whole-systems role in a newly-formed Integrated Care Partnership in 2019. The focus of her experience is in Quality Improvement and Organisational Development, enabling people to transform the systems in which they work; through a blend of mentoring, coaching, facilitation and teaching improvement skills.
Cath is an alumnus of Royal Holloway, University of London (BSc Hons in Psychology) and Roffey Park Institute (Organisational Development Practitioner). With a passion in helping people to lead change, she is an accredited Healthcare Leadership Model 360 degree feedback facilitator, an MBTI step 1 practitioner and a team-based working coach (with Affina OD).
Cath’s goal is to make a difference for those who run and those who use our NHS services; by enabling them to develop their knowledge, skills and experience in quality improvement and working together.
An Improvement Advisor role involves:
- Extra support for those projects working
on one of the Trust priority workstreams - Expertise in improvement methods and tools
Their responsibilities are:
- Attending and help coordinate the monthly directorate QI forums
- Teaching staff and service users & carers in improvement methods and tools
- Strategic support for directorate in defining improvement priorities, aligning QI work, building capability
- Regular supervision sessions in each directorate with QI coaches
- Alert clinical/service director and sponsors of projects that are not progressing or where support structure is weak
