Raf Hamaizia

Expert by Experience Lead

Cygnet Health Care

Biography

Raf Hamaizia has served as the Expert by Experience Lead for Cygnet Healthcare, since August 2016, collaborating with the Director of Nursing to shape and improve the organisation’s service user involvement structures on both a local and group level.

He has implemented a number of initiatives within Cygnet Healthcare including ‘The People’s Council’, which has been recognised by the Care Quality Commission as ‘an area of outstanding practice’ and by the Royal college of Psychiatrists as ‘an example of good practice’.

He is the project lead for the Social Hubs, which has seen clinical spaces at Cygnet hospitals transformed into homely environments with amenities such as gaming stations, arcade games, juke boxes, neon signs and more.