In their role of Chair, Kate provides guidance, leadership and structure to PiP; ensuring her oversight constructively challenges the work of our small team, steering it in the direction of the greatest gain for the member organisations, and most importantly for the children and young people served by our health economy.
Mary brings to PiP a long and successful career in the NHS, starting out as a Paediatric Nurse, and later developing strong network skills as the Lead Nurse and Network Manager setting up the Southern West Midlands Neonatal Network. Moving her career into the commissioning arm, Mary started her collaborative work with PiP when she led the Maternity and Children’s Strategic Clinical Network for NHS England.
These days, alongside her role in PiP, Mary leads large transformation projects, including a recent Programme Manager role for Birmingham United Maternity and Neonatal Programme; and now leading the development of a new Neonatal service in Alder Hay Children’s and Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Mary’s role in PiP includes leading the engagement and partnership discussions with both new and prospective members; and ensuring the future of PiP’s work programme remains in line with regional and national policy and priorities.
Steve has been involved with PiP right from the start. He facilitated the meetings in 1997-8 to explore whether a collaborative forum for children’s services would command support and what it would look like. When PiP was formally established, he was invited to join the core group and Steering Group/Board, to ensure PiP’s work is rooted in good theory and an evidence base and to draw learning from PiP’s experiences. He has supported a number of PiP projects, including the multi-agency work on child sexual abuse services.
He is Professor of Management at Keele University, where he has specialised in the management of public services, running a range of Masters courses and a programme of professional doctorates. Steve’s research focuses on inter-organisational partnerships, alliances and networks. His publications include a number on PiP itself and on PiP’s work on paediatric managed clinical networks. Steve also chairs the Academy Council of Blackfriars Academy, a special school in Newcastle under Lyme, and is governor of a Willaston primary academy in Cheshire.
Alison has been involved with PiP for many years as network member, project supporter and lead for the Paediatric Senior Nurse Forum and more recently our Academic Advisor.
Alison Warren currently works for Birmingham City University as a Senior Lecturer following a career in clinical practice spanning 38 years. She is a dual award nurse with both Child and Adult qualifications. Alison is currently Academic lead for practice learning, Department of children and young people’s health.
She has a wealth of experience in Children and Young People’s (CYP) Nursing, and has worked in several roles including, Education Fellow for Health Education England (HEE) (supporting in the care of Children in an Emergency Department), Clinical Matron for Children’s Services, PICU, Neurosciences, Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Orthopaedic’ s, CYP Clinical Education, Skills and Simulation, Preceptorship and Resuscitation services.
Anjum joins PiP this year as Clinical Lead; bringing his extensive wealth of clinical experience and leadership into the organisation.
Ally has worked as a keen advocate for Networks in the NHS, since working for the Pan Birmingham Cancer Network over a decade ago; later working for a number of Clinical Networks under NHS England and then moving on to develop the West Midlands Paediatric Critical Care Network from inception.
Ally’s career has focused on transformation and she currently works as Associate Director of Quality Improvement for Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHSFT. As Project Lead for PiP, Ally supports the delivery of key outcomes and products as requested by PiP members.
Amanda has over 20 years’ experience in the dental profession; spending many of those at the front line as a dental nurse, trainer, and practice manager and subsequently as a Compliance Manager, consulting with organisations and ensuring they meet all statutory compliance in line with CQC and General Dental Council regulations.
She has worked for PiP since 2019 and is currently the organisation manager. Within this role Amanda acts regional and national network facilitator, event coordinator, project management support.
Amanda has also spent time within the QI team and Birmingham Women’s & Children’s Hospital as project support.
Zureena brings over 20 years of experience in administration and customer service, with a background spanning event management, education, healthcare, and finance.
She is known for her reliability, adaptability and strong interpersonal skills.
Zureena joined PiP in 2022 and plays a key role in planning and delivering our education programme and study days.
Her knack for organisation, being calm under pressure, and warm personality make a great combination for creating our stand-out events.
Zureena is committed to continuous learning and strives to enhance operations through efficiency and thoughtful service.
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