GBR
Cohort 3
Steve Clarke
National Clinical Lead for Mental Health, NHS Wales, United Kingdom
NHS Wales
leadership vision
Many of us will have undertaken some leadership development in our careers, but I fundamentally believe that the journey towards being a good leader is a journey of self-knowledge and self-awareness, as much as it is about learning skills and techniques. In reality, the only tool we have is the self to lead and sustain change, and that requires us to work on ourselves, in and out of work.
my story
I'm still pondering my Sciana experience some years after completing my time with the programme.
It was in equal measures inspiring, frustrating and challenging, and it gave me a very different perspective on health, healthcare, innovation and leadership.
about me
Steve Clarke is a senior mental health nurse and healthcare leader with extensive experience at strategic and operational levels across the UK healthcare systems. He has worked at the heart of policy making and was previously specialist adviser to the House of Commons Health Committee where he led reviews into healthcare reform. He has also held a range of strategic roles at a national level and was deputy director for mental health for England where he developed the first waiting time and access standards for mental health services. Steve has also worked in public health practice, education and on the spread of evidence-based practice across complex systems. He relocated to Wales in 2018 where he currently leads on quality and safety in the mental health system. He has a master`s degree in mental health service improvement, obtained an honours degree in politics in 2009 and completed the IHI-inspired improvement advisor programme in Glasgow in 2017.
Meet the Partners
Sciana: The Health Leaders Network is a programme supported jointly by the Health Foundation (UK), Careum (CH) and the Bosch Health Campus (DE) in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar.
