Tom Maher

Chair

Nominating organisation: St. Patrick's Mental Health Services

Tom Maher is currently employed as the Director of Services at St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services. This service comprises a mental health service that includes 3 Approved Centres, a network of community mental health clinics and a Wellness and Recovery Centre that includes extensive day services.

The role includes responsibility for the development of and efficient delivery of all clinical services, funding, clinical governance and quality. These services are delivered by approximately 360 clinicians including social work, nursing, medicine, clinical psychology, occupational therapy, psychotherapeutic staff and the associated administrative staff necessary for such delivery. The services in SPMHS are provided by multi-disciplinary teams and a range of care programmes (including Anxiety Programme, Eating Disorder Programme, Depression Recovery Programme, Bipolar Affective Disorder Programme, Young Adult Programme, Addictions Programme, Dual Diagnosis Programme, Mental Health Care of Later Life, Psychosis Recovery Programme, Living through Distress and Radical Openness Programmes, Wellness and Recovery Action Planning(WRAP) Programme).

Prior to this post, he worked for 24 years as a nurse in a variety of clinical, administrative and educative roles.