Jennifer Maher

Jennifer Maher

Elected Trustee

Jennifer is an ODP Team Leader and a Clinical Skills Facilitator. She has over 23 years’ experience in and around theatres. Most of these years were spent in large adult trusts in Liverpool, with the last 5 years in Paediatrics in Alder Hey Hospital. Jennifer has an ILM level 3 in Leadership & Management and is currently studying a level 5 Coaching qualification. She is also a trained Human Factors trainer.

Jennifer has a keen interest is in Human Factors and the impact on patient safety. Recently she has been part of a core team developing a new programme to create a safer way of working in teams, using Human factors, Simulation and Coaching as the core of the programme. She feels her vast experience and skills across the many specialities help her to understand the needs and the many challenges theatre staff can face day to day. Jennifer believes that we can coach our teams into overcoming and maybe preventing some of these challenges.