The Rev Harry Herbert

Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia.  Ordained in 1972 as a Minister of the Congregational Church, which formed part of the Uniting Church at Church Union in 1977.

Graduate of Sydney, New South Wales, La Trobe and Yale Universities.

Married to Meg, with two daughters – Catherine and Julia.

Former Ministry:
            Minister @ Falls Village, Connecticut USA
            Minister @ Warrnambool, Victoria
            Minister @ Heidelberg, Victoria

Current Position:

Executive Director of UnitingCare NSW.ACT.  UnitingCare is the Community Service, Social Justice and Chaplaincy division of the Synod.  Service Groups are UnitingCare Ageing (overseeing all aged care work); UnitingCare Children, Young People & Families (including Burnside, Unifam, Wests and the Harris Community Centre); UnitingCare Children’s Services (overseeing all childcare centers).

Programs include:  UnitingCare Supported Living (disability service); and the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) at Kings Cross.

UnitingCare Chaplains are in Correctional Centres, Acute Care Hospitals, Mental Health Services, and the Police Service.

UnitingCare is the licensing operator of the trial of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre at Kings Cross.

Other Current Positions:

• Member Legal Aid Commission
• Chair & Trustee of the Responsible Gaming Fund
• Co-chairperson AGL Customer Council
• Member NSW Government Boarding House Expert Advisory Group
• Secretary of the Civil Chaplaincies Advisory Committee (CCAC)
• Member Board of UnitingCare Ageing
• Member Board of UnitingCare Children, Young People & Families
• Member Board of UnitingCare Children’s Services

Formerly:

• Chair – Social Impacts Advisory Committee, Olympics 2000
• Chair – New South Wales Council of Social Service
• Chair – UnitingCare Australia
• Member of the ICAC Operations Review Committee

Dr. Marianne Jauncey
BMed, MPH (hons), FAFPHM

Marianne Jauncey was appointed to the position of Medical Director at the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in August 2008. She is a Public Health physician and has worked in the drug and alcohol field for just over a decade. She previously worked in an acting capacity as the MSIC’s Medical Director in 2005, and is very pleased to be working here again.

Marianne has previously worked as a drug and alcohol clinician in Kings Cross, having spent four years at the Kirketon Road Centre where the primary focus is injecting drug users, sex workers and youth at risk. She has also worked at a number of Area Health Services around NSW, at the NSW Dept of Health, and at the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Her particular research interests include increasing access to hepatitis C treatment for injecting drug users, drug overdose, and the physiological changes that occur after drug injection.

She is very committed to the Sydney MSIC and the work that it does.

She has worked predominantly in the opiate pharmacotherapy area and has always been interested in working with injecting drug users. Jennifer has worked within a harm minimisation model whilst managing a number of drug treatment services in Sydney. Jennifer spent ten years as a Board member of the Hepatitis C Council of NSW.

Jennifer was appointed as Clinical Service Manager in November 2009 and is delighted to be taking over the management of MSIC from Colette McGrath who laid an excellent foundation for the operation of this unique health service.

Rohan Glasgow
Acting Office Manager

Rohan has worked exclusively in administrative and managerial roles over the past 25 years.

After 7 years working in various capacities at Telstra, he decided he would like to work for a community based organisation. Starting out as a casual administrative officer at the Kirketon Rd Centre (KRC) in 1999, he soon became permanent part time and acted in the KRC Office Manager position when required.

When the Sydney MSIC opened in May 2001 he was appointed as a part time Health Education Officer and subsequently acted as the Office Manager when Tracey Brown, who held the position previously, took annual leave.

Rohan is honoured to step into Tracey’s shoes until September 2010, after which he hopes to gain the position permanently.

Julie Latimer
Nurse Unit Manager

Julie Latimer trained as a Mental Health nurse in Cardiff and after graduating in 1995 moved to London to work within the Maudsley Addictions Directorate.

Julie initially worked in an in-patient setting before moving to the community where she worked as part of Lambeth & Southwark Community Drug Team.  She was appointed Deputy Team Leader of the Methadone Maintenance Clinic within this service where her duties included co-ordinating the existing IV methadone clinic.

Julie was actively involved in the RIOTT (Randomised Injectable Opiod Treatment Trial) programme which was the pilot study for prescribed injectable Diamorphine in the UK and worked closely with this team until 2007.

Julie moved to Australia in Oct 2007 & worked as an RN at Kirketon Road Centre before being appointed Nurse Unit Manager at MSIC in Jan 2008. 

Lynsey Buckles
Senior HEO

Lynsey gained a degree in Health Promotion in 2000 and has since focused her career on Drugs and Alcohol.  She has extensive experience in assessment, group interventions, case management and referral. 

Lynsey began her career as a Drugs worker in a Youth Offending Team, creating/developing a range of interventions for young people in the Criminal Justice System.  She then moved onto delivering training to professionals, providing health education in schools/youth clubs as well as case managing clients.  Prior to leaving the UK, Lynsey was the Team Manager for a Substance Misuse Service in a Young Offenders Institute.

Lynsey also worked part time in a Bail and Probation Hostel with adult females, many of whom were injecting drug users.

Lynsey moved to Sydney and started as a Health Education Officer at the MSIC in December 08, before being appointed as Counselling Unit Manager in March 09.

David Martin
Case Referral Co-ordinator

David comes to MSIC after an extensive career in nursing, administration and primary health care in Australia and the United Kingdom.  With a background in health law he has a keen interest in policy and law reform.  In his role as Case Referral Co-ordinator at the injection centre David seeks to empower clients to engage with a wide variety of services to potentiate positive health outcomes, particularly in the area of drug treatment.  His committment to the health care of MSIC clients is holistic and his research interests are in the fields of faciliating a more actualised life for our client group.  

Committees

The Community consultation committee was established to support and advise the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) operations over the trial. The terms of reference and membership of this committee are detailed below

Community Consultation Committee

Terms of reference

The purpose of the Community Consultation Committee is to facilitate the smooth integration of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) into the Kings Cross community in the following ways:

• to provide a forum for sharing knowledge
• to assist in developing communication strategies for meeting the information needs of all community members
• to identify positive and negative impact to residents and business after the introduction of the MSIC
• to provide feedback to their respective constituencies on the status of the MSIC

The vision of the Community Consultation Committee is to forge a community partnership to reduce drug related harm to all people in the Kings Cross area

Membership

Membership comprises of people appointed by the Uniting Care NSW ACT to represent local residents, business, service provision and consumer groups in the Kings Cross area. These are as follows:

• Jennifer Holmes (Chair) – Clinical Services Manager, Sydney MSIC
• Dr Marianne Jauncey – Medical Director, Sydney MSIC
• Ed Adamek - Family Drug Support
• Dr Andrew Byrne - Local Resident and addiction medical
  specialist
• Michael Gormly – 2011 Residents’ Association
• Robyn Greaves - Coordinator of the Kings Cross Community and Information Centre and local resident
• Darren Schott - Crime Manager, Kings Cross Police Patrol
• Marcelle Hoff - Councillor, City of Sydney (Independent)
• Graham Long - General Manager, The Wayside Chapel
• Shayne Mallard - Councillor, City of Sydney Council (Liberal)
• Clover Moore MP - State MP Sydney, Lord Mayor, City of Sydney (Independent)
• Gideon Warhaft - NSW Users & AIDS Association
• Barry Heiler – Kings Cross Neighbourhood Centre
• Ingrid van Beek - Kirketon Road Centre
• Linda Mearing - Kings Cross Partnership
• Adrian Bartels - Local Business Operator

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