{"id":816,"date":"2022-10-19T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=816"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:46:30","slug":"sue-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/sue-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2022, UK<\/p>\n<p>Sue is a South African trained physiotherapist who currently works part-time as a Team Lead in the Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust and part-time in her private practice in Herne Bay. She has lived in the UK for the past 17 years and is a proud single mum of three beautiful children. She says, &#8216;I am so excited and grateful for the opportunity of embarking on my MBA adventure.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing and maintaining a physiotherapy service within the challenging mental health environment, where recruitment and retention is difficult<\/li>\n<li>Having a poster of the results of the positive results of a male incontinence post prostatectomy Pilates class she formulated and ran presented at a physiotherapy conference<\/li>\n<li>Establishing a comprehensive women\u2019s health service in a hospital where there was only a skeleton service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the MBA programme at Kent Business School and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Initially the broad range of topics covered in the course, but mostly after the conversation with Debbie [Kemp] who had such a positive and welcoming approach to recruitment. I want to educate myself in leadership and business to a point where I have the confidence to apply for higher managerial positions or branch out completely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To move out of the healthcare sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Invest in yourself and your journey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOn the other side of fear is freedom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2022, UK Sue is a South African trained physiotherapist who currently works part-time as a Team Lead in the Kent and Medway Mental Health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/sue-smith\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249107],"tags":[249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}