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Who We AreThe Rev Harry Herbert
Graduate of Sydney, New South Wales, La Trobe and Yale Universities. Married to Meg, with two daughters – Catherine and Julia. Former Ministry: 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:
Formerly:
Dr. Marianne Jauncey
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.
Colette McGrath
She has worked in the HIV/AIDS area before becoming interested in working with injecting drug users. She then took up a post in the community working under a harm minimisation model followed by an appointment as the deputy manager in a community drug team in North London setting up a needle syringe, methadone and outreach service. In 1995 she migrated to Australia where she became a Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Private Clinic in the Eastern Suburbs. In 1997 she was employed at the Kirketon Road Centre as Nursing Unit Manager. For the past few years she had been working in the capacity of Acting Assistant Director and more recently as Projects Manage at the Kirketon Road Centre until she was seconded to the position of Clinical Services Manager at the MSIC. Colette is very familiar with the Kings Cross area having worked with the local population there since 1996
Tracey Brown
In 1996 she took a sabbatical for four years enjoying the travelling world as Office Manager of Student Flights, Newtown, before returning to work in the health system. The opportunity to be involved in setting up the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre attracted Tracey back into the Drug and Alcohol field. In 2004 Tracey completed the Graduate
Julie Latimer 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 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
CommitteesThe 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:
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
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Colette McGrath, trained as a Registered Nurse and Mental Health Nurse in London and has worked in the Alcohol and Drugs area for over ten years.