Staff Profiles

Martin Hookins

Senior Lecturer in Social Work
Course Leader Social Work (Pre-qualifying)

Direct Telephone Line: 01242 715221

Email Address: mhookins@glos.ac.uk

Academic & Professional Qualifications

• Certificate in Social Services (CSS)
• Certificate in Management Studies (CMS)
• Certificate in Education PGCHE
• Master of Science

Practice Experience

• 2003 Lead Trainer MH: Glos. Partnership Trust
• 2001 Assistant Director Training & Education: Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust.  Oversee the Training & Education Needs of 3 PCTs & GPT.
• 2000 Training Manager: Glos County Council.
• 1998 Lead Trainer Mental Health: Glos. County Council.  To develop mental health training under the Modernising agenda.
• 1992 Training Officer: Glos. County Council. To develop mental health, learning disabilities
  & physical disabilities training. To work in partnership with Health colleagues to develop joint mental health training.
• 1987 Day Care Manager: Glos. County Council.  To establish mental health day care services in Glos.
• 1981 Deputy Manager: London Borough of Tower Hamlets - Intake Team.
• 1979 Social Work Training.
• 1977 Day Care Worker London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
• 1974 Groupworker: Psychiactric Rehabilitation Association  - LB Hackney.

Principal Teaching Areas

• Social Work — Post Qualifying Awards
• Mental Health

Research Interests

• Service User & Carer Collaboration
• Mentally Disordered Offenders

Brief Biography

Martin began his career working for a charity in a number of North London Boroughs. He completed his social work qualification in 1981 working for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in a variety of fieldwork and day care roles.
Martin moved to Gloucestershire in 1987 to set up the mental health day care service following the planned closure programme of Coney Hill and Horton Road Hospitals.
In 1992, he became a Training Officer with the County Council and developed, together with Health colleagues, mental health training across health & social care. Additionally he developed and provided Approved Social Worker Training across the South West Region. This ASW course was the first in the country to include service users and carers in 1995. As lead trainer mental health mental health, training was developed to include the voluntary and private sector.
Martin later went on to become the Training Manager for the social services department until he transferred to the Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust in 2001 as Assistant Director Training & Education, before returning to his substantive post.

Publications

• Risk Assessment and Management, (2001)
• South West Region NHS Executive & Pavillion Press