Meet the team

Gillian Jillett | Community Outreach Lead – City

Telephone: 07732 683454

Gillian has 8 years’ experience with Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire as an Adviser and Executive Assistant. Gillian also worked for 11 years at E.ON UK as Customer Service Advisor, Lead representative and negotiator for Unison in E.ON and also a member of their European Works Council for 4 years.

Gill is the Lead Officer for Dental Services. One of Gillian’s proudest achievements, as a member of NHS England’s Local Dental Network, is her involvement in introducing Emergency Dental Services from 8.00am-8.00pm, 365 days of the year across Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire. less

Becky Engley | Senior Analyst

Telephone: 07732 683453

Becky joined our team in January 2020 as our Senior Analyst. Each year Healthwatch Leciester and Healthwatch Leicesterhire has a closer look at 3 or 4 areas of health and social care in the area, based on the feedback we receive from members of the public and people working in health and social care. Becky's main focus will the Special Projects. This involves writing questionnaires, organising workshops and forums as well as interviews to gain as much information as we can.

Becky is born and bred in Leicester. Before joining Healthwatch she worked in a financial organisation for 15 years were she gained her project management experience. This experience will stand her in good stead as she leads and manages our special projects.
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Nazmin Pirbhai | Community Outreach Lead

Telephone: 07732 683499

After graduating from De Montfort University with a degree in Health Studies in 2015, Nazmin has worked in various NHS organisations. Nazmin has worked in various teams including, the Children’s Immunisations Team, Adult Mental Health Team and Brokerage.

More recently, Nazmin has been more involved in community work and before joining Healthwatch, she worked as both an Assistant Youth Worker and Study Support Worker, alongside her brokerage role.

Following this, Nazmin developed a keen interest in working with the community, therefore has recently completed a Masters in Health and Community Development Work.

Nazmin is the Lead Officer for Children and Young People. less

Gemma Barrow | Community Outreach Lead – County

Gemma has over 8 years’ experience working in local Healthwatch and the Local Involvement Network (LINks). Gemma has extensive knowledge working in partnership with statutory, voluntary and community sector organisations and has established close relationships with Health & Social Care colleagues.

Gemma has experience of working across the seven districts in the county and engages with the public to gather valuable insights of people’s experiences.

Gemma has contributed to 32 insight reports for Healthwatch, ensuring that findings and recommendations are widely communicated and presented to stakeholders who can make improvements to Health & Social Care services for the people of Leicestershire.

Gemma is the Lead Officer for Maternity Services. less

Mukesh Barot | Interim Manager

Telephone: 07732 683452

Mukesh joins the team with an extensive and varied background in local authority youth and community development as well as arts and community services management across Leicester.

He progressed onto the Arts Council of England taking on responsibilities for Cultural Diversity as well as being Team Leader for Education and Lifelong Learning, Participatory Arts, Audience Development and implementing national intervention programmes at regional level.

With a robust background in Equality Diversity and Inclusion, Mukesh spent 9 years as the Equality Manager at East Midlands Ambulance Service before moving onto specialist corporate advisory roles within East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

In his spare time, Mukesh is also a well-established International session musician. less