In 2011 I visited Orygen Youth Health in Melbourne, a world-leading academic and research mental health facility dedicated to developing pioneering approaches to young people who have developed early onset psychosis. On my return to my UK NHS post, I disseminated my learning from my visit among colleagues in Scotland.

I retired from my NHS post as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in early 2012. I undertook a couple of locum appointments after that, the last entailing a year-long post working in the South East of Scotland Adolescent Inpatient Unit (IPU). In that final NHS post I was able to draw upon my experiences from my Fellowship visit to Orygen.

From early 2017 onwards I have worked as a medical member in the Mental Health Tribunal of Scotland, within the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Organisation. While my particular expertise proves invaluable where the tribunal client is an adolescent, I sit on tribunals with individuals of any age who are detained under Scotland's Mental Health Act. I also hold a part-time position with NHS Education Scotland and help provide mandatory training to newly qualified psychiatrists.