TEAM MEMBER

Jon is an experienced senior manager, researcher and teacher with over 30 years’ experience working in health, social care and education in the public, independent and voluntary sectors. He is particularly known for his work on mental health, veterans, drug and alcohol use, offender health and equality and human rights. Coming from a practitioner background as a Registered Mental Nurse Jon has been able to successfully bridge the gap between research, innovation and practice. He has worked extensively as a senior manager on programmes for health and social care improvement including service user, carer and community engagement. In particular Jon has a reputation for ensuring that engagement and inclusion are at the forefront of mainstream organisational change management.

Prior to working in Leicestershire, Jon was Associate Head at the International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion (University of Central Lancashire) where he managed a wide range of research projects, learning and teaching programmes and commercial consultancies at regional, national and international levels. Jon’s sound record and reputation as an innovative organisational change management expert has led to his being asked to be an adviser on various government initiatives, for example he was a member of the project team for the national Prison Drug Treatment Strategy Review Group.

Jon is also a Senior Visiting Policy Fellow with the Queen Mary Global Policy Institute, Queen Mary University London.