Rachel Shapcott
Senior Innovation Consultant
Rachel is a Senior Innovation Consultant who is dedicated to using systems change and innovation methodologies to transform the UK’s mental health system.
Rachel works across Innovation Unit’s mental health portfolio. Rachel is leading the work adopting and adapting the Living Well model across 10 localities in Greater Manchester and leading the development of a new community mental health model in York, inspired by the mental health system in Trieste.
Prior to Innovation Unit, Rachel worked in a variety of contexts, providing frontline mental health support in the NHS, co-creating visual storytelling tools with people with lived-experience of migration at charity Positive Negatives and running large scale grant programmes for news and education at Nesta. Most recently Rachel worked on the development of the Anna Freud Centre’s strategy to better support child and family mental health across the UK, bringing innovation methodologies to the organisation to develop new products and services.