About Our Team 

Roger has been associated with mental health and work for longer than he cares to remember. He was a Vocational Services Manager for an NHS Mental Health Trust, and Project Lead for the Avon Pilot, the first mental health Job Retention Service based in Primary Care. He has trained hundreds of staff in job retention skills. His greatest passion is bringing the right people together, so no surprise that he has engineered the development of National Job Retention Networks. He remains the Chair of the London Network, when he is not busy with his grandchildren. He believes a good way to end a busy working day is in the pub, where the lively debate can continue until closing time! 

Ruth has been facilitating development of people and organisations for the last 30 years, with relationships and wellbeing at the core of her philosophy. She has a background in counselling, mediation and training and for many years worked in Occupational Health as the Counselling Service lead and member of the senior OH team, winning an award for Improving Working Lives and becoming an exemplar for the HSE Management Standards. She has worked across a range of sectors, including education, housing, theatres and the dairy industry. Meeting Dave and Roger in 2009 introduced her to the world of Job Retention. To support her own wellbeing, Ruth is a musician (and music teacher), loves playing swing jazz in a Big Band and enjoys walking through her home county of Yorkshire with her dogs, Brodie and Frodo. 

An Occupational Therapist, Dave was the Lead Clinician in the Avon Job Retention Pilot, and has many years experience of work in both the public and private sectors of mental health, work rehabilitation and job retention. He has worked in IAPT Services, and as an OT in an Occupational Health setting, providing advice and return to work planning for a variety of physical and psychological conditions. He is an experienced trainer and supervisor, and has a parallel career as a skilled therapist, using a tool kit of complimentary as well as more familiar approaches to helping clients to achieve wellbeing. He has an impressive collection of bass guitars, and enjoys nothing more than being a 'guitar jukebox' round the fire with good friends, where he can be found playing obscure pop hits from the sixties and seventies. 

Lorraine is a Vocational Specialist in the NHS, working in secondary care and based within Community Mental Health. She has been working in the field of Job Retention Case Management since 2003.   

Lan has worked in Employment Support for over 8 years. She currently works for a mental health charity but her experience spans across homelessness, drug and alcohol, and work with single-parent families. Lan is also the Secretary of the London Network. She is an eco-conscious person, and reflects that in the way she lives. She has a passion for helping support people to overcome their fear and paralysis around climate anxiety and climate collapse, resourcing them with greater motivation and resilience. Lan is an avid cyclist and can be spotted whizzing around London, clad in her Lycra, racing cyclists on electric bikes, and pretending she is in the Tour de France. 

Elizabeth is a solicitor and project director at the Legal Advice Centre in East London. Prior to this she worked in both the advice and mental health sectors. Elizabeth specialises in discrimination and employment law, and works with clients at all stages of their disputes. She hhas taken many cases to the Employment Tribunal or Country Court.