Meet the Team

Kimberley Mullen - Hospital Manager

Kim has a background in studying Psychology and working in secure services prior to joining Cygnet. Kim joined Cygnet in 2012 as a staff nurse following completing an MSc in Mental Health Nursing and has held roles as a staff nurse, senior staff nurse, head of care and hospital Manager. Kim has worked across rehabilitation and secure services within Cygnet supporting both male and female services.

Kim is responsible for ensuring the best possible service at Acer and regulatory compliance is met. Kim has a passion for service user involvement in service improvement as well as reducing the stigma around patients who present with a diagnosis of personality disorder.

Carolyn O'Connor - Clinical Manager

Carolyn joined the team in 2008 as a Preceptor staff nurse and has worked at a number of hospitals within the company including Aspen Clinic, Storthfield House, Cygnet Clifton and Cygnet Acer Clinic. Carolyn has progressed from junior nurse to senior nurse, then to Head of Care and her current position of Clinical Manager at Cygnet Acer Clinic.

Carolyn is responsible for ensuring the best quality of care is provided at Cygnet Acer Clinic, overseeing an Acute ward and a specialist Personality ward. Carolyn ensures that she spends time with the patients and is aware of their clinical needs and is directly involved with their care pathway as part of the Multi-Disciplinary team.

Carolyn’s role also includes; taking responsibility for the safeguarding of adults, ensuring effective clinical practices are in place, mentoring and supervision of staff, and implementation and monitoring of company policies and procedures.

Dr Logan Naidu - Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Logan Naidu gained his basic medical degree (MBChB) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa) in 1995. After arriving in the UK in 1997, Dr Naidu undertook his specialist training in Nottingham and gained his MRCPsych. He has been working in mental health services since October 1997.

After initially working for Derbyshire Services in the Crisis and Home Treatment Services, he joined Cambian Health in 2012 at Storthfield House as consultant psychiatrist. Since 2012, Dr Naidu has worked across a number of services in Cambian/CAS/Cygnet including Storthfield House, The Limes, Aspen House and Aspen Clinic.

Dr Naidu joined the team at Cynet Acer Clinic in January 2019 as consultant psychiatrist on the female Personality Disorder Rehabilitation unit. He is now the consultant on the newly opened acute female admissions ward (Upper House) at Acer Clinic, which opened on the 1st of June 2021.

Dr Naidu is also Medical Director for female rehabilitation services in the North Region of Cygnet.

Dr Awaita Ghosh - Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Ghosh been a consultant in general adult psychiatry for the last 16 years, with experience of treating acute mental illness and a wide range of complex mental health conditions. He trained at the University of Calcutta, India and did his basic and higher specialist training in Sheffield.

Dr Ghosh has a particular interest in bipolar disorder, personality disorder and complex trauma and is undergoing training in EMDR. He is an examiner and standard setter with the Royal College of Psychiatrist for the past 12 years. Dr Ghosh has also been involved with training programme of junior doctors with the Health Education Yorkshire and Humber and Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Katie Clough - Ward Manager

Katie started her career in 2009 as a bank support worker. From then she has had various roles at different hospitals including Cygnet Sherwood house, Cygnet Views and Cygnet Acer Clinic. She started her nursing career at Acer and spent a number of years working on the specialist personality disorder ward. Katie has worked on an acute ward for a year before joining Acer Clinic as the ward manager for the Acute ward.

Katie is responsible for ensuring the team are working together alongside the service users, to provide the best care possible and achieve the best possible outcomes for the individuals admitted to the ward. Katie’s role is to also act as mentor to all staff and coach them in the implementation and proper use of Cygnet policies and procedures to ensure everyone is practicing to a safe and high standard.

Katie is dedicated to ensuring that the care provided is led and shaped by those who are best placed to know what works – the service users!

Jane Mosley – Occupational Therapist

Jane studied for a Bsc (Hons) Degree in Occupational Therapy at the University of Derby, qualifying in 2010. Jane gained employment with Cambian to gain experience in mental health services in 2011, commencing employment as a support worker at The Views, a learning disability rehabilitation unit for females with complex needs. This experience lead to Jane gaining my first junior Occupational Therapist post within the Male Mental Health Services at Storthfield House.

During Jane's time at Storthfield House she gained invaluable experience, developing my clinical skills working with males with enduring and complex needs, including schizophrenia, personality disorder, mood disorders and Asperger’s Syndrome.

In 2015 Jane became part of the Cygnet Acer Clinic team, progressing to the Female Mental Health Services as a Senior Occupational Therapist, specialising in personality disorder. During this time Jane have developed my clinical knowledge and skills of working in a complexed area of clinical practice, developing the Occupational Therapy service and driving provisions.

Ellie Madeira - Occupational Therapist / LGBTQ+ Champion

Ellie is a Band 5 Occupational Therapist working primarily at the Acer Upper House. She provides functional therapy for patients on a referral basis, and will provide and support interventions underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) theory. Ellie is also supporting Acer’s Equality and Diversity initiative by being the site’s LGBTQ+ champion.

Megan Bird - Assistant Psychologist

Megan joined the team at Cygnet Acer Clinic after completing a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience at Sheffield Hallam University. Megan started her career at Cygnet at Sheffield, as a senior support worker on a low secure ward for females with mental health needs.

Megan’s responsibilities as an assistant psychologist include providing low intensity psychology groups informed by psychological models, as well as delivering one to one interventions based upon individual service user’s needs. Megan works collaboratively alongside the service user to complete a formulation to make sense of their difficulties. She administers and scores psychometrics completing a psychology report to identify specific needs of the individual within our care. Her role includes completing risk assessments alongside the multi-disciplinary team to review and inform service user’s care plans.

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