Katie Casement - Interim Hospital Manager

Katie qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2011 and began her career with The Cambian Group working with male locked rehabilitation services. Katie joined Cygnet Hospital Derby in June 2014 and progressed to Head of Occupational Therapy where she has helped raise the amount of therapeutic activity on the wards with her team.

Katie shadowed the Clinical Manager at Derby from summer 2016 and gained experience in the role and was given the opportunity to act up as Clinical Manager in 2017. In January 2018 Katie gained the substantive Clinical Manager Role at Derby. Her confidence, fairness and ability to help has furthered her progress within the company and gave her the opportunity to take on a temporary role at Cygnet Hospital Clifton in March 2020 to support the management team. Katie was then appointed as Hospital Manager for Cygnet Hospital Clifton in July 2020.

Keith Gwyther - Clinical Manager

Keith has been in care/nursing since 1991 and a qualified Nurse since 2012. He has worked in a variety of settings from secure services, CAMHS and community settings. During this time, Keith has worked with a range of patients including adults and young people with both mental health and personality support needs.

Keith enjoys supporting service users during their time of most need and aims to give individuals and staff members a positive role model who they can rely on and be supported by. Outside of work Keith enjoys weight training, boxing and he loves motorbikes.

Sameera Harrison - Alina Ward Manager

Sameera became a qualified mental health nurse in 2021, which she has worked within the secure forensic settings as a nurse, senior nurse and clinical lead. This has included supporting individuals on a care pathway back into community settings. Sameera has also completed various work in PICU units, care homes and acute units with a variety of individuals with mental health diagnosis.

Sameera has continued to gain knowledge within the mental health sector, grow her skills, support and supervisor other nurses. Sameera strives to showcase compassion, empathy and build genuine rapports with our individuals. This is to ensure a person-centred approach is consistently used to allow our individuals needs and wants are hear by advocating for them to take control of their own care.

Kennedy Bowman - Nova Ward Manager

Kennedy brings over a decade of dedicated experience to the mental health sector. Her career began with five years in supported living before she joined Cygnet Hospital Derby’s Alvaston ward as a Support Worker. Cultivating a multidisciplinary approach, she collaborated closely with substance misuse, psychology, and occupational therapy teams.

Through Cygnet’s apprenticeship pathway, Kennedy qualified as a Nurse Associate and subsequently registered as an RMN. Her academic and practical excellence earned her both the Cygnet Student of the Year Award and the prestigious Florence Nightingale Award for achieving the highest grades in her cohort.

Driven by a proactive approach to professional development, Kennedy consistently sought out advanced clinical governance opportunities. This dedication fuelled her rapid advancement at Cygnet Hospital Derby from Senior Nurse to Assistant Ward Manager, and ultimately to Interim Ward Manager on the Wyvern ward, before transferring to Cygnet Hospital Elowen. Throughout her tenure, she has championed critical leadership portfolios—including Student, Physical Health, Care Planning, and Compliance leads—ensuring all patient care is delivered safely, efficiently, and with a strict person-centred focus.

Dr Reema Chatterjee - Responsible Clinician

Dr Reema Chatterjee is a consultant adult psychiatrist with significant experience in the field over the last 25 years. Dr Chatterjee began her career in psychiatry training at the prestigious King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. She qualified as a consultant psychiatrist in 2002 and entered private practice in Mumbai and gained experience in a number of psychiatric conditions treating people of different cultures nationally and internationally. This experience served her well and she then worked in the Sultanate of Brunei.

Dr Chatterjee arrived in the UK in 2005 and completed her training in the East Midlands deanery. She has experience in treatment and management of patients on acute wards , intensive care unit , day hospital and substance misuse teams.

Dr Chatterjee is a keen proponent of training and is a much sought after supervisor by trainees, both medical and ACP. Apart from English, she speaks Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Bahasa Malayu. She is currently acquiring proficiency in dialect Arabic. She has a keen interest in music and attends gigs wherever possible.

Iustin-Nicolae Bilibou - Clinical Lead Dietician

Iustin is a highly accomplished dietitian with a BSc in Nutrition & Dietetics and two MSc degrees, both obtained within the Faculty of Medicine—one in Clinical and Community Nutrition and the other in Health Systems Management.

Since joining Cygnet in 2020, Iustin has advanced from Specialist Dietitian to Clinical Lead for the Dietetics Department, building a wealth of experience that spans both mental and physical health.

His expertise covers a diverse range of fields, including eating disorders, neuropsychiatry, forensics, internal medicine, and endocrinology, reflecting a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between physical and mental well-being. In addition to his role within Cygnet, Iustin serves as the Group Leader for the Romanian Society of Nutritional Sciences and regularly shares his insights as a speaker and lecturer at national and international conferences.

Vilasini Bhaskaran - Highly Specialist Eating Disorders Dietitian

Vilasini is a Specialist Registered Dietitian with more than 23 years of experience in both public health and clinical dietetics. She holds both a Master of Science and a Master of Philosophy degree in Advanced Dietetics. Her extensive background encompasses various roles, including serving as a Program Officer for the World Health Organization's Diabetes program, where she led initiatives aimed at enhancing diabetes prevention, education, and research. Additionally, she has worked as a Program Manager for international projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Furthermore, she has served as a Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Consultant for UNICEF India.

In the United Kingdom, she has distinguished herself as a Specialist Dietitian in Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Diabetes, Gastroenterology, Bariatrics, and Weight Management, working within both the NHS and private sectors. Vilasini also serves as a First Contact Dietitian for diabetes and obesity and actively volunteers with Diabetes UK, providing support to individuals with Type 1 diabetes.

Having authored over five abstracts and a multitude of articles in both print and online media, Vilasini possesses a keen interest in empowering others and disseminating educational initiatives across academic and public platforms.

As a mother of two wonderful daughters, Vilasini is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer (a classical Indian dance form originating from Tamil Nadu, India) and enjoys various hobbies such as traveling, cooking, and baking, in addition to spending quality time with family and friends.

Dr Ayesha Prout - Head of Psychology

Dr Ayesha Prout is a HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist who qualified in 2014 from the University of Nottingham, thus having over twelve years’ experience within the field. She has practiced in both the UK and Trinidad and Tobago, where she is originally from, in a variety of services, including CAMHS, Child Protection, Medium Secure Service, Personality Disorder Service, PICU and now Eating Disorders, with children and young people, as well as with adult males and females. Dr Prout has significant experience in the application of a wide range of psychometric and risk assessments to inform the formulations and understanding of patients, and has training in various therapeutic modalities, including CBT and EMDR.

Dr Prout initially joined Cygnet Health Care in 2021, where she was the Head of Psychology at Cygnet Hospital Maidstone, working alongside a team of Qualified Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Substance Misuse Therapist and Assistant Psychologists. She briefly took a pivot to work with a different service in 2025, though returned to Cygnet in 2026, as the Head of Psychology at Cygnet Elowen Hospital. Dr Prout has a keen interest in Trauma-Informed Care and Practices, constantly attending the pervasive impact trauma can have on both staff and patients, and exploring organizational changes which can aide in reducing re-traumatisation.

The psychology team provides both individual and group sessions for service users, and aims to work collaboratively with the MDT to ensure holistic care is delivered. They also provide staff support through the delivery of relevant training sessions, regular reflective practice sessions, debriefs where needed and collaborating on case formulation discussions.

Abigail Jones - Psychologist

Abigail is a qualified Forensic Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC), with experience working in secure settings since 2014. She is competent in a range of assessments such as the HCR-20, including the extended female addition. She has a particular passion for supporting women with complex needs and is a strong advocate for women’s issues and rights.

Abigail draws on a range of evidence-based approaches – including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E) and – her favourite – Compassion-Focused Therapy! This assists her in delivering a range of responsive individual and group interventions. She is also passionate about trauma informed care, psychological safety, and promoting recovery in services to support individuals in achieving the life they want.

When not at work, Abigail can be found spending time with loved ones, listening to music, reading a good book, petting animals and enjoying the sunshine by the sea whenever she gets the chance.

Laura-Jane Pinner - Head of Occupational Therapy

Laura-Jane (L-J) is a qualified Occupational Therapist who graduated from the University of Derby in 2020. Her experience spans adult mental health, low secure forensics, and inpatient CAMHS. Before joining Cygnet Elowen Hospital, she worked as an independent therapist in the community, specialising in paediatrics.

L-J is currently completing Module 6 of Ayres Sensory Integration and is also a qualified personal trainer. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with loved ones, going to new places, reading and running.

Angie Hodgson - Occupational Therapist

Angie graduated as an Occupational Therapist (OT) in 2020 and has experience of working across both hospital and community settings. Angie has been working as a specialist OT at Cygnet Elowen since January 2026 and has previously worked at Cygnet Hospital Derby on the low secure and rehabilitation wards before moving into senior OT roles within the NHS. Angie brings a broad range of knowledge and skills to the team, having experience in both physical and mental health roles. Prior to being an OT Angie worked as a project and programme manager at a water company and still loves a good plan and to do list!

Angie is currently completing the OT VdTMoCA Cygnet Preceptorship and is actively working to spread the knowledge of this internally at the 2026 Cygnet OT conference and externally by supporting the preceptorship team with their face to face learning at a university setting.

Outside of work Angie enjoys socialising with friends, walking, reading and crafting. In December 2025 Angie starting horse riding lessons, proving that even in your 40s you can start learning something completely new.

Nikki Billington - Hospital Administrator

Nikki is the Hospital Administrator for Cygnet Elowen Hospital having originally joined Cygnet in 2024 as a support worker in one of our personality disorder services. Prior to that Nikki was an Estate Agent and became the area manager for Derby and Chesterfield, so has a wealth of knowledge around administration and management as well as a passion for excellence in healthcare and recovery.

Nikki is proud to work for Cygnet and uphold the values and standards through team working and advocating for the best care and treatment for each of our service users.