Helen Crimlisk is a Consultant in Community Psychiatry and Deputy Medical Director at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Director of Teaching at the University of Sheffield. At the RCPsych, she is Associate Registrar in Leadership and Management and lead for Physician Associates in Mental Health Programme.

She undertook a Masters in Quality Improvement and Leadership training with the Generation Q programme supported by the Health Foundation. Her interests include leadership, quality improvement, service user engagement & experience, education, workforce innovation and sustainability. She has led on a number of teaching and recruitment initiatives, on innovations in education including Lived Experience Educators and on workforce developments including Physician Associates, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Peer Workers in mental health settings.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, and a senior Fellow at the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. She chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists Leadership and Management Committee and is involved in a number of programmes with the College around leadership, workforce innovation and transformation of services.

She trained at Guy's Medical School, the Maudsley and Queen Square, London completing my training in South Yorkshire following a period living and working in Germany. Whilst now working full time, she has trained and worked part-time as both a trainee, an specialty doctor and a consultant.