Hello, my name's Peter and I'm a highly experienced charity leader passionate about health improvement, with a comprehensive background in supporting marginalised communities.
I'm an Expert by Experience and Lived Experience Advisor as a gay man with suicidal ideation and PTSD, advising oversight and ICS boards, statutory partners and VCS organisations on care pathways and investment in social and holistic models of care.
I'm a strategic thinker with a focus on change management, governance, policies and infrastructure, assisting small organisations thrive in an ever-challenging landscape.
I love working with teams, partner organisations and the community to co-design and co-deliver health promotion initiatives in a range of different settings. This has included large event planning, resource development, HIV & STI testing delivery, chairing network meetings, and digital service development during a pandemic.
Skills
✍️ Service design and delivery
I’m a confident writer and can adapt my style for different audiences and purposes. I’ve written in line with lots of different tone of voice guidelines and house styles.
✍️ Volunteer recruitment, engagement and retention
📖 Clinical governance
Not many people truly understand what makes a great story. As the old journalistic maxim goes: dog bites man, that’s not a story; man bites dog, that’s a story.
🤝 Building relationships
Having great relationships with stakeholders across an organisation is the key to being successful at internal comms. I build strong relationships quickly at all levels.
🔁 Change management
I’m never content with the status quo. There’s always a better way to do things, and as internal comms professionals, we have to stay one step ahead of trends and developments.
Work & Volunteer history
• Supporting socially-isolated and bereaved client with mild learning difficulty.
• Bringing together VCS and statutory partners to address health inequalities for City & Hackney residents.
• Representation at strategic place-based boards, advocating for the VCS’s participation in system change and service delivery.
• Leading on the implementation of an anti-racist commissioning programme.
• Coordination of Specialist Interest Groups and Forums (Health and Social Care Forum, Mental Health SIG, LBGTQ+ SIG, Sexual Health SIG, Learning Disability and Autism SIG, Hackney Refugee and Migrant Forum) ensuring they’re aligned to local and North East London system priorities.
• Coordination of the VCS Leadership Group.
• Outreach to VCS and grassroots organisations to address barriers to participation and collaboration.
• Coordination of a national trauma-informed mental health event programme attended by 300 people.
• Working with logistics, communications, content, and grants leads to ensure PeerFest is inclusive, accessible and peer-lead.
• Risk management and Supervision audits (Sussex NHS Foundation Trust).
• Development of the Brighton & Hove Suicide Prevention Action Plan (Sussex NHS Foundation Trust).
• Policy statement for LGBTQ+ people with lived experience of suicidal ideation (Samaritans).
• Supported the nationwide roll-out of Active Monitoring, a guided self-help digital tool (Mind).
• Development of EDI and lived experience participation training (Kings College London).
• Exceeding stretch target KPIs as Operational lead of 9 East London HIV prevention contracts, and 2 pan-London HIV prevention contracts for gay, bi and other MSM, and migrant communities.
• Income generation through new pipelines including mpox response projects which resulted in increased confidence and uptake of vaccine.
• Line management of 8 members of staff, 5 partnership staff, and coordination of 85 volunteers.
• Resource and service development through co-design, co-production and co-delivery, including events and workshops.
• Providing governance through development of policies, ambitious 3 year strategy and fundraising and campaign initiatives to increase non-restricted income streams.
• Operational management of HIV support and prevention contracts across Hertfordshire and Luton.
• Coordination of hybrid services for those disproportionately impacted by and people living with HIV.
• Management of chocolate shop and cafe including events and corporate relationships management.
• Coordination of events programme for gay, bi and trans men to reduce isolation, and increase skills and confidence.
• Project lead for Greater Manchester’s first print and digital HIV campaign.
• Operational and strategic lead for 6 sexual health authority funded programmes.
• Implementation and delivery of Public Health England HIV Innovation Fund HIV testing programme.
• Developing campaigns to raise awareness of health and wellbeing services.
• Management of LGBT skills and confidence project - liaising with funders and forming referral pathways.
• Member of Finance & Risk Management and Fundraising & Marketing sub-committees.
• Managing risk for the organisation through financial investment and business continuity planning.
• Project management of Trans Programme eBulletin, trans section of website.
• Events management of monthly trans takeover.
• Co-design (with volunteers) of a younger adult trans social group due to lack of visibility.
• CRM (Salesforce) database and application management of social-integration youth programme.
• Formatting and testing of automated outbound communications.
• Supporting clients to complete PHQ9 and GAD forms through wellbeing assessments to explore socio-economic triggers.
• Supporting clients in to services incoming education and employment.
• Awarded ‘Fundraiser of the year’ at Volunteer Awards.
• Raising unrestricted funds at corporate and community events.
• Delivering assessments with service users to tailor supporting statements for financial applications for clients living with HIV who are experiencing poverty.
• Supporting homeless LGBT service users to achieve positive outcomes in their social, work and education settings.
• Signposting to social and support groups and reporting sessions to scheme manager.
• Production of instructional guides and shop floor maps.
• Monitoring customer repairs, stock, deliveries, transfers, product reservations through CRM platforms.
