Kevan TaylorKevan Taylor is Chief Executive of Sheffield Care Trust – the NHS Care Trust providing Learning Disability and Mental Health Services to adults in the city. Originally from Lancashire he has lived in Sheffield since 1978. Passionate about raising awareness of mental health issues in society, Kevan has worked in this field for 25 years. He is strongly committed to service improvement and he believes that service user involvement and partnership working is key to high quality service delivery. His career has involved work as a Nursing Assistant, work within voluntary sector homelessness services and also Mental Health Day Services and Social Services planning. Working for the NHS for the last 15 years he became Director of Commissioning and has been at Sheffield Care Trust for the past seven years and Chief Executive for the last four. He also leads a partnership between health services in Sheffield and Adjumani in Northern Uganda. |
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Steve SlackSteve has been working at the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health in Sheffield since May 2005 when he was appointed as its new Director. He co-edits the Sexual Health newsletter, SHINE, on behalf of the Department of Health which has a national readership. Steve is also a member of the Government’s Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and is currently involved in advising on a review of the national sexual health and HIV strategy. Steve’s background is in social work. After qualifying in 1983 he went to work in Goldthorpe, a small mining village near Barnsley, as a generic social worker with an emphasis on child protection issues and juvenile justice. Later he moved to Sheffield where he worked in mental health as an Approved Mental Health Social Worker. He also worked with people with physical and learning disabilities and had a particular interest in their sexual health needs. He subsequently worked as a social worker and counsellor for people with HIV for five years before taking a management position with the HIV social work team. Steve took a lead on sexual health issues in social services and produced a sexual health policy for the Local Authority. Steve, along with other colleagues, was also instrumental in Sheffield City Council signing up to become a Stonewall Champion. |