Julie Hanna & Judith Mawer, Merseycare
Julie Hanna
Julie Hanna has worked in the NHS for nearly 25 years mostly in the field of mental health working as an occupational therapist, counsellor/therapist and manager.
Julie was seconded to the Liverpool Culture Company in autumn 2004 and had the privilege of working across the health and social care sector with a host of arts and cultural partners to enhance the links between creativity and culture, and health and well being as part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture celebrations. Julie is one of the author's of a Mental Well Being Impact Assessment of the Capital of Culture programme: an opportunity to look at how a cultural programme impacts on people's well being. Julie is co author of the "State of the Art: creative health talks" report (to be distributed July 09) which describes the Liverpool08 creative health programme and shares recommendations for the future by drawing out themes from individual interviews and from a World café event - The Big Conversation, held in December 08.
Julie has now returned to Mersey Care NHS Trust to join others building capacity and new ways of working to facilitate arts, creativity and culture as integral to the Trust's core purpose by impacting on the well-being of service users, staff and the Mersey Care community.
Judith Mawer
Having worked for many years in education, the transition to the role of Learning & Development Associate for a specialist Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Trust would seem like a natural development. Judith's arrival at Mersey Care NHS Trust with a brief to develop learning opportunities for service users arose, however, following her own peregrinations through mental health services, during which she was a founder member of a successful radical campaigning group, ‘Mad Women'.
A passionate advocate for learning and creativity as facets of emotional health and wellbeing, Judith has, since joining Mersey Care, been involved in establishing many collaborative programmes between the health and cultural sectors and has been influential in promoting partnership working across a large and complex organization.