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Former Roles

  • Deputy director workforce

  • Head of Public Health Academy London and KSS

  • Associate of Foresight Partnership (board development)

  • Director national NHS workforce review team

  • Acting director workforce and Organisation Development

  • Associate medical director

  • Associate dean

  • Audit Commissioner

  • Director Acute Commissioning

  • Director Public Health

  • Public health consultant

  • Honorary lecturer

  • Clinical medicine

Qualifications

  • Cambridge 2.1 degree in medical sciences 1979

  • MB BChir 1981

  • Masters in community medicine 1986

  • Diploma in training and development Leicester University 1999

  • Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health 2001

  • Henley certificate in Coaching 2007

  • Myers-Briggs Step I & II 2009 & 

  • CEDR accredited mediator 2010

  • NHS Mentoring 2010

  • 360 Feedback NHS Leadership Academy 2010

  • Certificate in Phonetics and Phonology 2011

  • ADHD Coach Training 2011

  • Coach Supervisor 2011

  • Career Coaching 2011

  • NHS Train the Trainer Medical Appraisal 2012

  • Diploma in Occupational Medicine 2019

  • Level 5 certificate in teaching English as a Foreign Language 2021

  • EBW Global Certified Partner 2024

Work Experience

Workforce strategy and development

Leading teams through tough times

Talent management

Public health

Leadership and coaching

Deputy Director Workforce

Judy led the national NHS workforce review team for 7 years, extending its scope from an analytical organisation providing information and interpretation, to one engaging staff in the wider NHS to develop their capacity and capability in workforce development through consultancy and training.

Leading teams through tough times - She successfully led the review team through a prolonged period of uncertainty while continuing to recruit and retain staff, deliver the work programme and grow the business. She led a programme to identify £38.5m of savings from a health authority’s £250m MPET budget without reducing quality; while leading and supporting a team drawn from 4 former organisations who had neither defined roles nor a secure future in the organisation. She has led a hospital reprovision programme and reconfiguration of acute services.

Judy established and ran the public health talent management service for the south east region, supporting individuals and employers in recruiting, developing and retaining public health talent

Judy’s core discipline is public health. Her population perspective and search for the evidence base underpin her approach to all her work. She was a director of public health for 8 years.

supporting others to develop their leadership strengths. Judy was a member of Faculty for the Wessex deanery leadership programmes. She coaches senior leaders, service managers and junior doctors through the South Central coaching network, the Gateway Scheme and the Wessex support programme; also clients outside the NHS

Judy worked for PHE/UKHSA for 10 years until 2023 as deputy director workforce initially supporting public health workforce development in the South Region and then nationally. This included secondment as Head of School in London and KSS and to NHSE on public health workforce and network development  

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