Theemis Consulting

Geoff is a registered nurse for learning disabilities and a registered mental health nurse. He has worked in various positions within mental health wards for more than 30 years, in clinical, educational and senior leadership roles. Between 2012 and 2016, he worked as a senior consultant completing independent reviews and independent homicide investigations, working with the service user-led charity Bright from 2014 until 2020 (including four years as CEO).

In 2012, Professor Len Bowers at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience recruited Geoff to be clinical supervisor to the Safewards research trial and subsequent dissemination. Geoff has continued working on dissemination, with his most recent post supervising a project to introduce Safewards to care of children and young people’s services in the UK. Since 2014, Geoff has worked independently with several organisations on individual projects, including the recently formed Lived Experience Network.

Geoff has written numerous papers, chapters and is co-editor of a book on mental health. In 2020, the Royal College of Nursing Institute awarded Geoff the Mental Health Nurse of the Year in recognition of his work to make inpatient services safer and more therapeutic.