Stacey Hemphill
Head of Practice
Stacey joined the Innovation Unit in March 2019, working on the National Lottery-funded Living Well UK programme to support the development of Living Well Systems.
Stacey is an Occupational Therapist specialising in Mental Health and has worked in a variety of settings as a Practitioner, Specialist Practitioner, and in leadership roles. Her experience has provided her with a strong grounding in practice development, change management, and strategic and operational leadership. In her previous role, she served as the Lambeth Living Well Programme Manager, where she set up and scaled the Lambeth Living Well Network.
As Head of Practice, Stacey continues her work supporting place-based teams and systems to develop and innovate practice, championing person-centred, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and collaborative approaches, and using practice development as a driver for tackling inequalities and achieving wider system change. She has supported work in Derbyshire and now in Greater Manchester to adopt and adapt Living Well. She is also supporting an emerging multi-agency Hub in York, where the system is working to develop community Hubs inspired by the mental health system in Trieste.
Stacey has a fierce belief in people and is particularly interested in how lived experience can be used as an asset in co-design and co-delivery to develop innovative practice and transform systems for the good of people and their communities.