Service/Borough Directors

Dr Baker undertook medical training at Oxford University and University College London, qualifying in 2001. He completed psychiatric training in North and East London, gaining Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2005 and has worked as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist since 2009 at the John Howard Centre, predominantly within female secure and community forensic services.

He is a keen educator and also examines for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has an interest in Healthcare Governance, having led on Clinical Audit within the forensic service for many years.  Dr Baker was an early adopter of QI, leading and sponsoring projects across the directorate.He has represented ELFT on regional committees and within reference groups at NHS England.  He undertakes Peer Reviews as part of the Royal College’s Quality Network, contributing to service improvements in the wider NHS.

Dr Baker sat on the Local Negotiating Committee representing doctors’ interests at Trust for several years, most notably increasing consultant presence at weekends whilst ensuring safeguards for doctors’ work-life balance. He was appointed Associate Clinical Director for the John Howard Centre in 2016 and became Interim Head of Service in 2017. 

Michelle is a registered nurse and has extensive mental health commissioning experience as well as having clinical experience of working in Learning Disability services for Bedfordshire. Michelle lives in and has detailed knowledge of Bedfordshire. She joined the Trust in 2016 from her role as Associate Director, Mental Health and Integrated Care Commissioning, for the Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

Bailey joined the Trust in 2016 as Deputy Borough Director in the Newham Adult Mental Health Directorate. Prior to that, in 2008, he was employed by the London Borough of Hackney in various adult mental health social work and management roles all whilst on secondment to ELFT, starting as the first social worker in the City & Hackney Crisis Service.

He has experience in leading teams through change - from the evaluation and reconfiguration of out of hours AMHP services, the management of the City & Hackney Crisis Service and the reshaping of community mental health services in Newham. His most recent focus has been on the transformation of adult community mental health services across the three boroughs of inner north east London as a Programme Director. Through partnership with social care, the voluntary sector and most critically co-production with those with lived experience, the experience of mental health care for thousands of adult service users and hundreds of staff within the ICS will be greatly enhanced. His work has spanned both clinical and non-clinical areas, including quality and performance and leadership of a complex clinical system evaluation.

Bailey remains a warranted AMHP, qualified Social Worker and practice educator. He has completed post-graduate qualifications in mental health as well as the Nye Bevan Programme delivered through the NHS Leadership Academy. 

Prior to his arrival in East London, Bailey lived in southern California where he attained a bachelors degree in clinical psychology and masters degree in social work. He has worked in various inpatient and community settings in the United States in both mental health and HIV prevention. He is a keen advocate for LGBT inclusion.

Day qualified as a Mental Health Nurse in 2003. He has spent his working life in Adult mental health services. Day has been working as Head of Nursing and Associate Clinical Director for Safety and Security in forensic services for ELFT since April 2016.

Over the years, Day has worked in inpatient secure mental health services, varying from low, medium and high security. Recently he was seconded to work as covering Borough Lead nurse in Hackney mental health inpatient services.

He has an interest in quality improvement and has led on quality improvement over the past few years in forensic services.  His particular interest lies in reducing restrictive practices within healthcare settings and has been commissioned by ELFT to review these in other organizations. He has a strong commitment to winning  ‘hearts and minds’ seeing that as a way to improve patient’s safety.

Day is a qualified organizational consultant having been awarded a Masters in organisational consultation – Psychoanalytic Perspectives, in  2010. 

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dr Patricia Potter, trained in East London in the 1990s and held a number of roles working with groups often marginalised or excluded from psychological and other services. She worked in one of the first CMHTs in Tower Hamlets offering psychological therapy for people with psychosis and was involved in setting up our first early intervention service, before becoming a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Tower Hamlets in 2002. She led psychological services across the borough until 2019 when she took up the role of Associate Director of Psychology for East London.

Throughout her career she has championed services which adapt so that they are accessible and acceptable to all residents of East London – collaborating with local homeless charities to create a service for hostels for homeless people; and setting up one of the first community psychology services in 2013 which continues to work in partnership with local communities, faith groups and voluntary organisations. She chairs the London region CRG for psychological therapies for severe mental health problems

George Chingosho has been appointed Interim Service Director – Children & Specialist Services. George was previously the Associate Director Patient Safety & Quality, Inpatient CAMHS & Alternatives to Admission. Prior to this he was lead nurse for mental health services in Newham.

George works alongside our Co-Clinical Directors for Children, Dr Rafik Refaat and Dr Julie Proctor, and our Clinical leaders for Talking Therapies and Addictions. His focus is on maintaining quality while managing demand, and strengthening pathways across CAMHS, children’s community health, talking therapies and drug & alcohol services.