South Metropolitan Health Service Board Award

This award will be presented to an employee who over their career has demonstrated exceptional commitment to ensuring Western Australians receive safe, high quality and accessible health services, no matter where they live.

Anthony Collier, Mental Health Service Co-Director – Rockingham Peel Group

Since joining WA Health as a social worker in 1984, Anthony has focused on ensuring our community can access fair, equitable and consumer focused mental health (MH) treatment.

An experienced MH services leader and a passionate and strong MH service advocate, Anthony led major care and service provision changes and improvement across Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Youth Mental Health and in two rural areas. He helped establish all three Headspace sites in South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS), was selected to develop the SMHS MH strategic plan roadmap and developed the Youth MH Model of Care Framework.

Respected by SMHS and external stakeholders, Anthony advocates for improved staff wellbeing and measures to address workforce shortages. A SMHS Aboriginal Champion, he also proactively increases recruitment opportunities for Aboriginal applicants.

Anthony is committed to ensuring consumer involvement and consultation in MH service provision, provides staff support to the Rockingham Peel Group MH consumer and carer guidance group, and co-chairs the only regional sub-network for the Mental Health Commission.

Nola Naylor, Director Aboriginal Health Strategy – South Metropolitan Health Service

Nola’s leadership has both engaged and empowered the broader South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) workforce to improve outcomes for Aboriginal people in acute care and the community.

Nola is an outstanding leader and mentor who embodies cultural respect and models these behaviours in her daily work. At an organisational level, she led implementation of the SMHS Aboriginal Health Strategy and is dedicated to increasing Aboriginal representation in the SMHS workforce. She was also instrumental in making Aboriginal health everyone’s business at SMHS through the Aboriginal Health Champions program.

A strong advocate for cultural security, Nola’s in-depth knowledge of the spiritual, cultural and health needs of Aboriginal people is unparalleled and she supports, cares and guides Aboriginal clients who are away from home and feel disconnected from family.

Nola’s genuine compassion and empathy enable her to develop meaningful interactions with stakeholders across and external to SMHS, and her overwhelming positivity and humility drive her many achievements.

Congratulations to our other 2022 finalists:

• Dr Edward Raby, Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Consultant –SMHS
• Jeff McDonald, Senior Workforce Strategy Consultant – SMHS

View our finalists

See other 2022 SMHS Excellence Award winners.