Meet the team

Jenny Treanor

Evaluation

Job title: Senior Consultant

Jenny is a qualified general nurse with a wealth of experience across the health sector in clinical, developmental and management roles. She joined Niche in 2014 from the Patients Association where she led a national project to improve complaints management. Before this she worked for over ten years at the Audit Commission as a Senior Performance Specialist. There she supported a wide range of health organisations, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their services. She is confident and skilled at working with NHS commissioning and provider organisations, third sector organisations and the private sector.

Throughout her career Jenny has had an interest and involvement in service improvement with a focus on how evaluation can be used to drive this. She also has a keen interest, and experience in involving service user and carers in this work. Since joining Niche Jenny has honed her skills in large scale evaluation of complex projects and in working with the mental health sector. Clients describe her as an excellent communicator.

Skills include:

• Expertise in evaluating service performance and quality both in individual services and across organisations working in partnership including the ability to develop measurements to identify improvements.
• Highly developed analytical skills with a methodical approach to data analysis.
• The ability to write clear and incisive reports and presentations.

Qualifications

B.Nurs, RGN, NDN Cert., CMS, HNC Computer Studies

Jenny’s recent experience includes:

• Evaluation of a district wide service re-design bringing together health, social care and third sector services to deliver more effective and efficient care and support across Wakefield District.
• Evaluation of a four Trust Mental Health Vanguard and a care homes Vanguard, over 18 months, reporting both internally and to NHS England.
• Carrying out a number of market analysis reviews, to guide strategic decision making, in the community and mental health sectors for both NHS and independent sector clients.
• New Care Models evaluation for NHS England of new, cutting edge, inpatient and community forensic mental health services.
• Working with adult and children’s learning disabilities services in Birmingham to identify the impact of key changes in practice and additional funding.
• Designed, carried out, analysed and reported on the impact on carers, of large scale service changes across a whole district. This involved face to face interviews with over 50 carers, conducted in their own homes.
• Worked on a number of simulation modelling projects within mental health.