Dr Sri Kalidindi has decades' worth of direct clinical experience, supporting people with the most severe mental health conditions, getting their lives back on track and attaining their goals and has set inter-/national mental health policy and training, as well as developed services locally, nationally and internationally. She has held many leadership roles, locally, nationally and internationally.

As an Executive, leadership and life coach, she enables senior high-performing people, to attain their next levels of health and well-being, hand-in-hand with increased levels of joy and professional success. Leading to a deeply fulfilled life of impact.

Her personal experience of reaching the brink of burnout whilst in high-performing national leadership roles, and using evidence-based methods to turn this around, is embedded into klip Global – a transformative workforce wellbeing service, developed with the support of the NHS England and Improvement Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. Klip Global services have now been embedded as part of the staff wellbeing offer into a prominent national professional membership organisation as well as other organisations. There is currently an opening for an organisation to partner with klip Global, to tailor staff wellbeing to their precise needs and apply together for grant funding and research-level evaluation and iteration of the wellbeing programme.

Caring for the carers, frontline NHS and social care staff is at the heart of her work at a national level.

Her awards include the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Psychiatrist of the Year, 2017-18 and she remains a spokesperson for the College, strongly advocating for good mental health services, for the population. She was honoured with a C.B.E in 2019 for services to Rehabilitation Psychiatry. She is a holder of a national Clinical Excellence Award.

Other roles include national clinical leadership of mental health rehabilitation at NHS England and Improvement through the Getting It Right First Time programme – accounting for £550 million spend per year, international expert advisor to the World Health Organisation and Chair of the Board of the Association of Mental Health Providers, a membership organisation for mental health charities and social enterprises, with 300+ members.

Dr Kalidindi continues in research, having completed her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, including having been the Co-Principal Investigator on a multi-site national RCT on reducing risk of diabetes mellitus in people with schizophrenia. She supervises postgraduate and medical students and is well published in peer reviewed journals and co-edited and co-authored the primary textbook on Rehabilitation Psychiatry in the UK, which was commended by the BMA Book Awards.

Sridevi.kalidindi@slam.nhs.uk