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Personal Career Introduction:
I believe that I have experienced a varied and challenging career since joining the NHS in 1979,
including:
 Sixteen years as a paediatric nurse and manager
 Four years in the private healthcare sector as a clinician and national training manager
 Two years working in partnership with academic and health-provider stakeholders to develop
clinical placements for: student nurses, Occupational Therapists and Speech & Language
Therapists
 Two years Managing a pilot Graduate Management Training Scheme (informatics specialism)
leading to its addition to the existing NHS scheme
 Twelve years working at regional and national levels delivering integrated educational and
organisational workforce development programmes to the NHS.
 Maintaining a working relationship since 2008 with the NHS Leadership Academy as a regular
interviewer and assessor for the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme
I enjoy working with people and can offer a wide range of transferable skills, knowledge and
capabilities that would be of great value to your organisation.
I have developed strong verbal and written communication skills throughout my career and have
experience of communicating with people at all levels within organisations in many situations
including; chairing meetings, planning and delivering workshops, speaking at conferences and one to
one situations. You could rely on me to communicate and liaise with your stakeholders in a confident,
informed professional manner.
I will bring experience of complex strategic thinking and working at a national level as well as
programme and project management skills ensuring effective outcomes for any organisation.
My experience of working with a wide range of clinical and non-clinical NHS and social care staff,
private sector partners and colleagues from the academic world will provide a unique mix of
experience to draw on and utilise.
I bring excellent experience of creating and managing a wide variety of strategic, business and project
documents.
I have a well-developed interest in, and experience of, providing mentoring, coaching and Action
Learning Set facilitation which I can draw on to bring out the best in people.
CURICULUM VITAE
Patrick Dodge RGN, RSCN, RMN, BA(open) PG Dip(open)
67 Acresfield Road
Salford
Greater Manchester
M6 7GE
Telephone: +44 (0) 7722 828826
paddydodge50@gmail.com

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Education:
Qualifications
Action Learning Set Facilitator NHS Leadership Academy current
Diploma in Life Coaching Oxford College ODL 2010
Postgraduate Diploma in Development
Management
The Open University 2005
Diploma in Professional Studies in Nursing The University of Plymouth 1999
Bachelor of Arts Degree The Open University 1993
Registered Mental Nurse South Devon College of Health 1991
Registered General and Sick Children’s Nurse North Manchester School of Nursing 1984
Training Courses
Clinical Safety – Safer design and implementation Health and Social Care Information
Centre
Feb
2016
Protecting Information (levels 1 & 2) National School of Government 2012
Introduction to Life Coaching The Coaching Academy 2007
PRINCE2 Practitioner Parity Training Ltd 2006
Microsoft Project (Introduction) Parity Training Ltd 2006
European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) NHS Information Authority 2004
Professional registration:
Nursing & Midwifery Council - Sub-Part 1 (Children, Adults, Mental Health)
Registration/PIN number: 80C0600E
This registration is currently lapsed.
Employment History:
1st April 2013 to present day
*Programme Manager, Developing Informatics Skills and Capability (DISC), The Health and
Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
1 Trevelyan Square
Boar Lane
Leeds
LS1 6AE
18th July 2011 to 31st March 2013
*Programme Manager, Informatics Specialist Development
NHS Connecting For Health (now merged with the health and Social Care Information Centre)
9th May 2010 to 15th July 2011
*Programme Manager, Informatics Specialist Development
Department of Health Informatics Directorate (transferred into NHS Connecting for Health)
* These 3 roles are essentially the same one being transitioned through different organisational
changes.
Responsible for delivering a number of successful workforce development and educational
programmes and projects working in collaboration with stakeholders including:
 Writing project descriptions to support the delivery of the National Informatics Board’s strategy
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 Working on the delivery of a national strategy for the professional development of analysts
working in health and social care
 An online resource as part of the Embedding Informatics in Clinical Education (eICE)
programme which aims to support the teaching of informatics to clinical staff via online
learning modules
 A new set of informatics Areas of Work to help define the informatics professions working in
partnership with the Workforce and Facilities team at the Health and Social Care Information
Centre
 An online informatics workforce profiling tool adapted from a Welsh version to be relevant in
England.
 A summer internship scheme
6th May 2008 to 6th May 2010 fixed term contract)
Programme Manager, Pilot NHS Informatics Graduate Management Training Scheme
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (now abolished)
 Responsible for the successful strategic development and delivery of a Pilot NHS Informatics
Graduate Management Training Scheme
 Responsible for building and delivering a business case for the extension of the scheme
beyond pilot stage to be presented at a national level which resulted in informatics being
accepted as the fourth specialism for the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme
5th December 2005 to 3rd May 2008
Informatics Specialist Development Programme Manager
NHS Connecting for Health (now merged with the Health and Social Care Information Centre)
 The main responsibilities of this role centred around; strategic planning, delivery, negotiation,
communication and partnership working at a national level.
 Leading on the design and delivery of a national strategy for the specialist development of
health informatics professionals working in the NHS.
 Development of a Future Leaders programme designed to deliver products and services that
identify talent and produce sign-posts and career pathways for those with aspirations to
become senior leaders within their organisations
December 2004 to 2nd December 2005
Capability and Development Manager
NHS Connecting for Health - Southern Cluster (now abolished)
 The role of Capability & Development Manager was grounded in partnership working and
involved liaising with suppliers and NHS stakeholders at a strategic level to plan learning and
development activity to ensure that organisations and their staff were able to deploy new
national IT and information management systems solutions.
October 2003 to December 2004
National Strategic Account Manager
NHS Information Authority (now abolished)
 Worked in partnership with stakeholder groups to meet any requirements they had for
information relating to IT and Health Informatics within the NHS across the South West of
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September 2000 to October 2003
Lead for Communication and Practice-based Education
Devon & Cornwall Workforce Development Confederation (now abolished)
 Worked in partnership with acute and primary care services and the University of Plymouth to
develop new systems to support education and training for undergraduate healthcare
students as part of a workforce planning process.
April 1996 to September 2000
Nurse Clinician / National Training Manager
Clinovia Ltd (bought out by Bupa Home Healthcare)
 Managed a caseload of patients at home on complex therapies including intravenous therapy
and manual ventilation across the South West of the UK and acting as an expert in all clinical
areas in support of the sales team.
 Trained, assessed and supported a national team of nurses delivering care whilst managing a
24 hour on-call service and taking responsibility for the development and management of all
clinical standard operating procedures.
Prior Roles:
Prior to the roles listed above I have had a 16 year career as a student, staff and charge nurse in
Manchester and Torbay working in paediatrics.
References: available on request.