Happy Building, Happy Staff, Happy Patients | Staff Wellbeing in Healthcare
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Seating availableHave you considered how intentional design can enhance the potential, retention, and support of healthcare staff, all while prioritising the wellbeing of both staff and patients?
Join Gray Puksand for their event Happy Building, Happy Staff, Happy Patients for an informal evening of insightful discussion.
Conversations led by experts Quentin Seik, Allison Lamb, Amanda Wilson, Kristiina Siiankoski, and Alison Smith will explore how deliberate design can create a sense of calmness and shift away from the clinical and sterile ambiance often associated with healthcare settings, and challenge participants to reconsider where we work and the fundamental purpose and physical expression of healthcare spaces.
Participants are invited to examine the interconnectedness of healthcare infrastructure, staff wellbeing, and patient experience, and to ponder: how do thoughtful design choices in healthcare settings foster environments where staff thrive and patients receive exceptional care?
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Quentin is an architect and designer with a strong record of delivering complex integrated architectural projects across a wide range of scales and typologies. As a confident and articulate project lead, he consistently drives his teams to produce outstanding outcomes.
With over 18 years of multi-sector experience across Australia, the UK and Internationally, his eye for detail and passion for his craft combine with a strong ability to critically analyse situations and adapt to varying project demands. His people-focused approach helps clients to consider their space or project through an alternate lens of possibility, from both an aesthetic and commercial standpoint.
Before joining Gray Puksand, Quentin has led a range of significant health, aged care and seniors living projects. Specialising in the design and delivery of buildings that combine diverse functions including Australia’s first integrated care facility that combines aged care, childcare, medical and community wellbeing amenities all under one roof.
Allison is a registered nurse with experience across many complex clinical settings. She has worked in high-pressure environments that range from an outpost in Canada’s First Nations community to one of Victoria’s largest Vaccination Hubs at Melbourne Showgrounds. She has held senior nursing positions such as Acting Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Acting Deputy Director of Nursing for the Surge Workforce, and Nurse Unit Manager.
Allison is a passionate ambassador for staff wellbeing and a peer supporter in the WH peer support program. Consumer experience has been central to her most recent roles as Assistant Director of Nursing in the Best Care Governance & Support Division to support NSQHS Accreditation. Currently, Allison brings her extensive experience to the Operations Readiness Team for New Footscray Hospital as the Project Manager responsible for Workforce Training, and service delivery planning for Mental Health & Wellbeing Services and Drug Health / AOD Services.
Amanda’s passion lies in creating meaningful spaces that promote sustainability and ethical practices. An acknowledgement of the broader impact and the human element of a project, allows us to create spaces that promote wellness, and inspire learning and connectivity to others. She has demonstrated experience in a broad range of sectors and believes the most successful projects result from collaboration; drawing on the knowledge and experience of clients, suppliers, and contractors, to enable evolution through problem-solving designs.
Amanda believes in sharing knowledge to help contribute to the development of our design industry. She has been involved in panel discussions with industry professionals and guest lectures to interior design students. She is also part of a course advisory committee to discuss current trends within the industry and how they can be applied to academic programs for future interior designers.
Kristiina has spent 15 years working in public health in government in various policy and strategy roles. More recently working with health services to build their capability in Co-design and how to partner with people with lived experience. This work was acknowledged as a finalist for the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards. In 2020, she established a not-for-profit health promotion charity and was the President of the charity board until 2024. In 2023, she was appointed to the inaugural board Variations in Sex Characteristics Restricted Medical Treatment Assessment Board by the ACT Minister for Health.
Alison Smith is a leader in allied health and a strategic thinker familiar with using system psychodynamics. She has a passion for and currently leads specialist allied health care for women and neonates at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. Alison aspires to reflect kind and thoughtful leadership, providing safe places for high-quality work and meaningful outcomes for patients, families and the community. Drawing from her background as an Occupational Therapist, Alison also believes she can help influence system improvements and designs for the wellbeing of staff involved in challenging and vital work.
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Seating availableHave you considered how intentional design can enhance the potential, retention, and support of healthcare staff, all while prioritising the wellbeing of both staff and patients?
Join Gray Puksand for their event Happy Building, Happy Staff, Happy Patients for an informal evening of insightful discussion.
Conversations led by experts Quentin Seik, Allison Lamb, Amanda Wilson, Kristiina Siiankoski, and Alison Smith will explore how deliberate design can create a sense of calmness and shift away from the clinical and sterile ambiance often associated with healthcare settings, and challenge participants to reconsider where we work and the fundamental purpose and physical expression of healthcare spaces.
Participants are invited to examine the interconnectedness of healthcare infrastructure, staff wellbeing, and patient experience, and to ponder: how do thoughtful design choices in healthcare settings foster environments where staff thrive and patients receive exceptional care?
Participants
Quentin is an architect and designer with a strong record of delivering complex integrated architectural projects across a wide range of scales and typologies. As a confident and articulate project lead, he consistently drives his teams to produce outstanding outcomes.
With over 18 years of multi-sector experience across Australia, the UK and Internationally, his eye for detail and passion for his craft combine with a strong ability to critically analyse situations and adapt to varying project demands. His people-focused approach helps clients to consider their space or project through an alternate lens of possibility, from both an aesthetic and commercial standpoint.
Before joining Gray Puksand, Quentin has led a range of significant health, aged care and seniors living projects. Specialising in the design and delivery of buildings that combine diverse functions including Australia’s first integrated care facility that combines aged care, childcare, medical and community wellbeing amenities all under one roof.
Allison is a registered nurse with experience across many complex clinical settings. She has worked in high-pressure environments that range from an outpost in Canada’s First Nations community to one of Victoria’s largest Vaccination Hubs at Melbourne Showgrounds. She has held senior nursing positions such as Acting Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Acting Deputy Director of Nursing for the Surge Workforce, and Nurse Unit Manager.
Allison is a passionate ambassador for staff wellbeing and a peer supporter in the WH peer support program. Consumer experience has been central to her most recent roles as Assistant Director of Nursing in the Best Care Governance & Support Division to support NSQHS Accreditation. Currently, Allison brings her extensive experience to the Operations Readiness Team for New Footscray Hospital as the Project Manager responsible for Workforce Training, and service delivery planning for Mental Health & Wellbeing Services and Drug Health / AOD Services.
Amanda’s passion lies in creating meaningful spaces that promote sustainability and ethical practices. An acknowledgement of the broader impact and the human element of a project, allows us to create spaces that promote wellness, and inspire learning and connectivity to others. She has demonstrated experience in a broad range of sectors and believes the most successful projects result from collaboration; drawing on the knowledge and experience of clients, suppliers, and contractors, to enable evolution through problem-solving designs.
Amanda believes in sharing knowledge to help contribute to the development of our design industry. She has been involved in panel discussions with industry professionals and guest lectures to interior design students. She is also part of a course advisory committee to discuss current trends within the industry and how they can be applied to academic programs for future interior designers.
Kristiina has spent 15 years working in public health in government in various policy and strategy roles. More recently working with health services to build their capability in Co-design and how to partner with people with lived experience. This work was acknowledged as a finalist for the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards. In 2020, she established a not-for-profit health promotion charity and was the President of the charity board until 2024. In 2023, she was appointed to the inaugural board Variations in Sex Characteristics Restricted Medical Treatment Assessment Board by the ACT Minister for Health.
Alison Smith is a leader in allied health and a strategic thinker familiar with using system psychodynamics. She has a passion for and currently leads specialist allied health care for women and neonates at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. Alison aspires to reflect kind and thoughtful leadership, providing safe places for high-quality work and meaningful outcomes for patients, families and the community. Drawing from her background as an Occupational Therapist, Alison also believes she can help influence system improvements and designs for the wellbeing of staff involved in challenging and vital work.