Staff / Ben Haines
Ben Haines is the Business Manager and a Senior Consultant at Miles Morgan.
Ben’s qualifications include:
- Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology (Psychopharmacology)
- Master of Clinical Psychology
- Master of Business Administration
- Master of Applied Finance (in progress)
He has previously worked as a Clinical Psychology registrar in a number of health care settings including organisational psychology, juvenile justice, adult mental health, child protection, and preventive community health. He has also been employed as organisational psychology consultant, where his role involved working with executive level public service employees on career development strategies, and helping train staff in dealing with particularly difficult clients.
During his time as a Research Fellow at the National Drug Research Institute, he achieved a broad academic publication record including a major cross-disciplinary international review of all aspects of Australia's policy strategies in regard to illicit and licit drugs. His publications in the drug and alcohol field span a diverse range of topics, all relating to policy and practice effectiveness in matters relating to use of illicit and licit drugs. He is an ex-director of the Alcohol Advisory Council, which was a non-profit NGO focusing on reducing alcohol related harm. He was also part of the team that developed WA's first official policy response on reducing drug-related harm in the nightclub environment.
Ben has worked as a consulting researcher on a wide range of Miles Morgan projects intermittently since 1999, and has been employed directly as the business manager, and a senior consultant, since 2005.
His projects for Miles Morgan include work on the Partnership Outreach Education Model pilot, the Career and Transition pilots, Job Guide, Australian Career Development Studies, and The Australian Blueprint For Career Development. He has completed a major strategy review for a niche RTO that led to the organisation concerned securing long-term funding and support. He was a consultant to the COAG Skills Recognition Taskforce, contributing underlying research and group facilitation to the taskforce’s work on developing a national mutual recognition system for a range of occupationally trained licences. He was one of the senior staff on our recent work on profiling South West Youth Labour Markets. Ben was recently currently the senior consultant on a project on profiling all training and licensing requirements for Associate Professional occupations across all jurisdictions in Australia. Finally, Ben's most recent project was our review of the Transition To Work program for the Department of Disability, Ageing, and Home Care in NSW. Transition To Work is an innovative, highly successful program aimed at creating and maintaining pathways into employment for young people with disability.
Ben’s skills are extensive, encompassing a diverse range of areas including a deep background in research methodology, education and training policy and implementation, policy analysis, organisational strategy and execution, financial management, and the diverse people-oriented skillset inherent in a clinical psychology background.
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