Prof Bhairavi Sapre is a General Adult Psychiatrist working for Cheshire and Wirral NHS Foundation Trust as a Community Psychiatrist in the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

She has been an NHS Consultant since 2011. She is the Joint Clinical Lead for the Cheshire and Mersey Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service. She is a Schwartz Round Facilitator and qualified in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. She is mentor for the Point of Care Foundation, a registered charity responsible for delivering the national Schwartz Round Program.

She is Veteran’s Champion Clinical Lead in her Trust and has helped her trust achieve Veteran Aware Status and set up an Armed Forces Network to help shape the trusts support to armed forces and their families in the Cheshire and Wirral area.

She is an External Committee Member for the Westminster Centre for Research for Veterans at the University of Chester and one of their Visiting Professors. She is currently co-principal investigator for a two-year project that will focus on transition to civilian life for veterans and their families, but will also seek to understand the full experience of these veterans throughout their service.

She is also an Army reservist, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps with 20 years’ service, holding the rank of Lt Colonel, with 253 Medical Regiment, Northern Irish. During her service she has spent time at the Department of Community Mental Health, Catterick with her military counterparts and has attended numerous military psychiatry training courses and conferences in Trauma focused CBT and EMDR. She is a member of the Defence Hindu Network Committee where she has supported the development of webinars and has delivered lectures at Asian Women’s’ Events. She is also a member of the 1(Div) Mental Wellbeing Working Group and is the 102 Log Bde Mental Wellbeing and Resilience Lead where she advocates for and supports the wellbeing agenda across the Division.