Susy Stirling for National Health Stories

Susy is Associate Dean and Coaching Scheme Lead at NHS England Y&H. She has worked in a variety of health systems in the NHS and overseas, and for and with acute trusts, health authorities, primary care groups, primary care trusts, a strategic health authority, clinical commissioning groups, Public Health England, NHS England and Health Education England. She runs the Future Leaders Programme in Y&H, a multidisciplinary clinical Leadership Fellowship Scheme. Susy trained and worked in Public Health, and became interested in organisational development after observing the impact of successive NHS reorganisations on staff as well as patients. She set up and runs a Coaching Scheme for trainees, having trained as a coach and seen at first-hand how powerful the impact of protected thinking time away from the coalface can be on workplace effectiveness, engagement and wellbeing, all of which contribute to better patient care. She is an experienced facilitator, coach and supervisor, and is trained in NHS Leadership Academy 360 appraisal, Action Learning Set facilitation, Thinking Time Coaching and facilitation, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Strength Deployment Inventory, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hogan psychometric tools. She is interested in supporting healthcare professionals to find reward and motivation at all stages of their careers and is intrigued by the place of storytelling in this journey.