JIT Action Group

The JIT Action Group is a team of people that supports the core JIT in implementing its work programme. The group includes GPs, health, housing and social care managers and practitioners, and independent consultants who have extensive experience working in social services, acute and primary health care, and the voluntary and independent sectors. The contribution of the Action Group is critical to our effectiveness in helping partnerships deliver better services.

Here's a summary of some of the skills our Action Group can offer:

Isobel Allan MBE

Serves as the Vice Chairperson of Carers Scotland, whilst still acting as a full-time carer, as well as being the honorary President of the Rett Syndrome Association Scotland. Local and central government involvement in Carer and User issues, with a particular interest in bereavement and loss, counselling skills and interpersonal skills for both professionals and carers.

Esther Anderson

Telecare. Equipment and Adaptations. Housing with Care. User and Carer Engagement.

Dr. Adrian Baker

A practicing GP in Nairn, involved with demand management in Primary Care. Delivering on Anticipatory Care in line with Better Health, Better Care. Data requirements and clinical delivery for Collaborative Contracting. Particular interests in Mental Health and Older Adults.

Dr Keith Bowden

Commissioning. Delayed Discharge. User and Carer Engagement.

Sue Brace

Commissioning and Procurement. Care at Home. Partnership Support Programme.

Jim Cameron

Social Work. Education and Health partnership working.

Dr. Martin Campbell

Principal Teaching Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews. Postgraduate teaching and research with an emphasis on people with intellectual disabilities. Focuses on staff training, inspection and quality monitoring of learning disability services.

Dr Sally Cheseldine

Children and adolescents with learning disabilities. Commissioning of services. Transition to adult services. User and Carer involvement.

Ailsa Cook

Including the views of service users and unpaid carers in research, policy and practice, particularly hard to reach groups, such as people with dementia. Impact of joint working on outcomes for service users and unpaid carers. Getting research into practice.

Jane Davidson

Registered general & district nurse with over 40 years experience. Main areas of interest and skill base are in Delayed Discharges and discharge planning, within the whole system and across all organisations.

Alison Docherty

Equipment and Adaptations with specific focus on community equipment service provision.

Kay Eastwood

Previously an Executive Nurse Director and lecturer in Healthcare Law and Ethics, now working as an independent consultant. Organisational leadership, development and governance. Performance management, service design, development and review. Associate Inspector with SWIA. Trained Mediator.

Helen Forrest

Equipment and Adaptations. Housing with Care. Care at Home. Intermediate Care.

Andrew Fowlie

Demand and capacity planning, whole system service redesign, and linking health and social care objectives to achievable, timely outcomes.

Gerry Graham

Care at Home. Community Care Outcomes

Derek Grant

Partnership Support. Complex Needs Review.

Julie Haslett

Knowledge of the commissioning and procurement processes at local practitioner level.

Donna Henderson

Qualified as an occupational therapist, project manager for the implementation of telecare in Highland.

Professor Bob Hudson

Partnership and integrated working in a whole systems context, extensive experience in teaching, research, consultancy and working and integrated care.

George Hunter

All community care and primary care health. Extensive knowledge of community care practice, policy and legislation.

Douglas Hutchens

Extensive Health service management and independent consultant. Whole systems redesign and improvement, strategy and policy development, performance management, health planning and project management. Organisational and one to one mentoring. Vice Chair of the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) and Board Member of the Care Commission.

Yvonne Jones

Commissioning. Care at Home. Telecare. Equipment and Adaptations. Housing with Care. User and Carer Engagement.

Sue Kelso

Equipment and Adaptations. Telecare/assistive technology integration.

Brian Kerr

Single shared assessment, carer assessment, care management and joint financing, risk assessment and protection planning; adult protection; Telecare; service development for older people; Free personal care; Service audit (needs, costs, quality) and individual case reviews.

Sheena MacDonald

Intermediate Care. Delayed Discharge. Managed clinical networks and discharge and transfer policy development.

Sandra MacKay

User and Carer Engagement and National Information Standards (NMIS) Implementation. Community Care Outcomes Framework.

Trudi Marshall

Intermediate Care.

Jamie Malcolm

Expert knowledge of mental health and incapacity legislation. Partnership Support Programme

Gillian McCready

Delayed Discharge

Michael McCue

Learning disabilities and mental health service planning. commissioning, delivery and evaluation.

Nell McFadden MBE

Chair of Inverclyde Community Care Forum, extensive experience representing older people in a voluntary capacity, committed to improving services for older people and ensuring their voice is heard.

Jimmy McIntosh MBE

Learning Difficulties. Disability issue.

Emma Miller

Outcomes of partnership and integrated working with emphasis on delivering joined up, holistic support to service users and their unpaid carers. Implementing research in practice.

Kenny Milne

Public Partnership Forum Coordinator with East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership. Partnership working and public involvement/engagement. Previously, chaired both the local disability forum and North Ayrshire Community Care Forum for periods of over five years. Experiences garnered from both of those roles coupled with present employment gives a clear understanding of the many inequalities that exist in care, disability and health over a variety of communities. The importance of bringing the voice of those who suffer inequalities to the appropriate table is vitally important in order to help communities be a better healthier place for all to live as equals. A wheelchair user with a clear understanding of the many ways in which people who have a disability can and sometimes are discriminated against.

Jane Mudd

Community Care Outcomes Framework. User and Carer Engagement and NMIS implementation. Governance and Management, and Partnership Support Programme.

Rab Murray

Strategic management issues.

Margery Naylor

Qualified as a psychiatric social worker at the University of Liverpool. Extensive range of experience in local authority community care services.

Tony O’Sullivan

Housing aspects of community and social care and associated finance issues; performance management, strategic planning, economic appraisal and evaluation.

Professor Gordon Peterkin

Telecare. Telehealth.

Douglas Philips

Independent consultant in health and social care, providing both advice and practical support on Partnership working, including joint planning and performance management; National and local policy and strategy development and detailed analysis/review of implementation; service redesign together with project development and practical implementation; learning and development, including one to one mentoring and workshop facilitation; Joint Future, Delayed Discharges, Balance of Care, Housing (including sheltered housing), Joint Governance and CHP support.

Rebekah Pratt

Community Care Outcomes Framework.

William Pook

Senior Financial Accountant with extensive financial and management knowledge and experience in both the Public and Private Sectors. This includes partnership and joint working across all Community Care groups (including Children's Services) and NHD.

Ruby Rawcliff

Delayed Discharge.

Stephen Renwick

Chartered Accountant, Chartered Public Finance Accountant, Non Executive Director of NHS Lothian and independent consultant providing accounting and management consultancy; governance, structure and financial control environments; design and delivery of bespoke training programmes.

Emma Reynish

Delayed Discharge.

Denis Rowley

Development including teaching and training. Developing of community care training materials at national level.

Winona Samet

Independent consultant providing both advice and practical support on partnership working, including, assessment and care management, Indicator of Relative Need and detailed analysis/review of implementation; service redesign together with project development and practical implementation. Development and implementation of standards for assessment, care and support planning, review and carers assessment. Extensive senior nurse management experience, leading and managing a wide range of primary, community care and older peoples services.

Liz Sergeant

Housing with Care. Commissioning. Telecare

Frances Smith

Developing quality systems and standards, strategic management and inspection visits training.

Malcolm Smith

Care at Home. Rural and Remote services. Partnership Support Programme.

Ailsa Stewart

Talking Points

Hugh Toner

Older People. Dementia

Elaine Torrance

Social care and health.

Jim Verth

Planning & Commissioning Adult Care Services; Governance and Joint Management Arrangements; Performance Management; User and Carer Involvement; Service Access Arrangement and Project Development and Management.

Nigel Walker

Commissioning. Housing for Older People. Learning Disabilities. Community Engagement.

Margot White

Performance management. Process and service improvement, strategic development and change management in joint services with users and carers. Project management, operations and financial management.

Dr Peter Williamson

NHS strategic planning and development, including older people, mental health, learning disabilities and physical disabilities; delayed discharges; and shifting the balance of care. Extensive experience of joint working and community planning.

Gillian Young

Former Head of the Business Intelligence Unit for Scottish Homes. Wide-ranging understanding and expertise in the development and delivery of datasets, information tools and analytical procedures to assist policy analysis and strategic decision-making. Taken a lead role in the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, including the recent proposals for streamlining the SIP monitoring indicators.

Malcolm Young

Team and strategy building, leadership, development, change management, conflict resolution and enabling breakthrough thinking.

Edith Young-MacArthur

Community Care Outcomes Framework. Housing with Care. User and Carer Engagement and NMIS Implementation. Governance and Management. Partnership Support Programme.

Zoe van Zwanenberg

Community Care Outcomes Framework. User and Carer Engagement. Governance and Management. Partnership Support Programme