TY - JOUR T1 - 10 minutes with Kelly Garside, Team Manager, Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Oxford Health Foundation Trust JF - BMJ Leader JO - BMJ Leader SP - 69 LP - 71 DO - 10.1136/leader-2020-000321 VL - 5 IS - 1 AU - Kelly Garside AU - Shona Michele Reed-Purvis Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/5/1/69.abstract N2 - BiographyKelly Garside is a registered mental health nurse who graduated with Distinction in a Higher Diploma in Mental Health Nursing in 1997 and obtained her BSc (Hons) in 1998, both at Buckinghamshire University (Brunel). She has worked for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust for 22 years. Since 1998, she has had leadership roles in acute, inpatient and community settings, as a charge nurse, community psychiatric nurse and deputy team manager. She is currently Team Manager for a Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Oxfordshire.It’s a privilege to be a leader. You have the opportunity to make a difference—large or small—not only for your colleagues but also for the wider community; in my case, for the young people and families whom we serve. Leaders can make an impact for future generations; how we manage services now affects the future lives of our patients and the lives of the children they will have when they grow up.I think leadership is about accepting the strengths within your team and sharing the journey with them. It is about embracing the challenges and celebrating the things that go well. It’s about recognising that no one person is more important than another. This helps the whole team recognise their individual importance and grows their confidence, knowledge and roles, as leaders for the future—not just during the pandemic but also for the rest of their careers. Our team has shared goals, beliefs and an ethos: mutual respect regardless of hierarchy or profession; security—to get it wrong and to be able to ask everyone what we might be missing, without feeling judged; and curiosity, reflecting together on what to do, when and how, as a joint endeavour rather than as something I do alone. Everyone in the team has some kind of … ER -