Our team take great care in guiding patients through their treatment experience. Our staff are passionate about their work and we have high staff retention rate – in fact, the majority of our staff have been with us for 5 years or longer, and some have been through treatment themselves. Many have commented that Castle Craig has a warm and family-like atmosphere, which channels the continuity and purpose of our work.
Our patient satisfaction rate of 98% speaks for itself and many people who experienced Castle Craig return to visit for our annual reunion or else keep in touch with their therapists and other staff members are they leave treatment.
Meet the Team
Rehabilitation begins with people, which is why our most unique resource is our staff of caring and deeply committed individuals. Below are profiles of some of the staff who you will meet when you come here.
Dr. Margaret McCann, MB BCh BAO
CEO & Co-Founder
Peter McCann
Chairman
Dominic McCann
Head of Development
Frank Gill
Corporate Services Director
Dr. Maria Kelly, MBChB, DipPsych, MRCPsych
Associate Medical Director
Daniel Gouws
Chief Financial Officer
Victoria McCann
Senior Communications Manager
Mark Abrami
Senior Therapy Manager
Phillip Baron
Men's Unit Lead Therapist
Roseanne Boyle
Women's Unit Lead Therapist
Teri Lyn Fairnie
Lead Therapist, Family Programme
Tony Marini
Senior Specialist Therapist
Victoria Greenshields
Senior Therapist
Dr. Florian Kaplick
Consultant Psychiatrist
Dawn Dixon
Head Nurse
Duncan Dewar
Deputy Head Nurse
Frank O’Hare
Specialist Therapist
Angela Thomson
Specialist Therapist
Kane Duffy
Specialist Therapist
Maciej Iwanowicz
Counselling Psychologist
Gordon Hogg
Visiting Therapist
Guy Heath
Senior Staff Nurse
Karen Watson
Senior Staff Nurse
Donna Campbell
Senior Nurse Assistant
Margaret Nelson
Nursing Assistant
Lucy Douglas
Assistant Governance Manager
Janey Lawson
HR Manager
Donald Whitaker
Service Dev. Manager
Alison Mills
Admissions Case Manager
Andrei Zamfir
Admissions Case Manager
Anne Goodall
Admissions Case Manager
David Kilgour
Fitness Manager
Maureen Crosbie
Head Housekeeper
Castle Craig is an International Addiction Treatment Clinic
Many of our staff come from the UK but we also have a Consultant Psychiatrist from Germany, a doctor from Romania, therapists from The Netherlands, the U.S, Poland and other countries. Our international staff help ensures that patients from other countries feel welcome.
Castle Craig Medical Director
- Consultant Psychiatrist who directs the medical treatment programme;
- Oversees the head nurse and nursing department;
- Monitors the therapies and the therapists’ training programme;
- The medical director regularly keeps in touch with patients around Castle Craig and the extended treatment facility. As one of the teams of psychiatrists, they will also conduct regular medical work including assessments and discharge planning.
Consultant Psychiatrists
- Psychiatrists specialising in addiction treatment;
- Manage the medical assessments & personalised care plans of patients;
- Assess detoxification requirements and prescribe medication;
- Joins multidisciplinary team meetings and discusses with the rest of the medical and clinical team;
- Continually monitor the physical and mental health status of patients throughout treatment and approve all discharge plans.
Certified Addiction Therapists
- Deliver psychosocial talking therapies including specialist and perhaps also complementary therapies in groups or individually;
- All patients are assigned a focal therapist to guide them through their individualised treatment plan;
- All our therapists have IC&RC accreditation, university degrees or diplomas in addiction counselling and BACP and COSCA accreditation and attend continuous training. Others have qualifications in trauma therapy and CBT.
Resident Doctors
- Ensure dedicated onsite medical cover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week;
- The doctor is immediately available to deal with any medical emergencies that arise.
Nursing Team
- Provide nursing care and monitor the physical and mental health needs of patients throughout treatment;
- Nurses assist the doctors with the medical assessment;
- Distribute medication;
- Supervise detox;
- Nurses respond to any immediate needs – either health or emotional or other.
At Castle Craig, the nursing team works hard to ensure that patients in the intensive care unit have 24-hour medical cover.
Other permanent and consulting staff include:
- EMDR and CBT trained psychotherapists
- Eating disorder specialists
- Fitness instructors
- Complementary Therapy Facilitators
- Equine Therapy Facilitator
- Admissions team
- Administration and support staff.
Castle Craig Hospital Medical & Administrative Teams
Board of Directors
- Peter J McCann, MA, Chairman (PA: June Beevers)
- Dr Margaret Ann McCann, MB BCh, BAO, Chief Executive Officer
- Dominic McCann, MA (Hons)
- Dr Michael G McCann, MD, MA, DIH, MFOM
- John L McCann BA, ACIS
Senior Management Team
Chief Executive
- Dr Margaret Ann McCann, MB BCh, BAO, Chief Executive Officer
Associate Chief Executive
- Dominic McCann, MA (Hons)
Medical Director
- Professor Jonathan Chick, MA (Cantab), MPhil, MBChB, DSc, FRCPsych, FRCP
Head of Finance
- Daniel Gouws, MBA, CIMA, Dip.Bus.Man
Medical Staff
Associate Medical Director
- Dr Maria Kelly, MBChB, DipPsych, MRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist
- Dr Florian Kaplick, MD, PhD
Resident Medical Officer
- Dr Simona Markovits, MD
Head Nurse
- Dawn Dixon, RGN, RMN
Senior Staff Nurses
- Duncan Dewar, RGN, SVQ4 Health & Social Care Management
- Guy Heath, RMN
- Louise Spencer, RGN
- Karen Watson, RGN
Staff Nurses
- Leanne Raeburn, RMN
- Sharon Lacey, RGN
- Janette Burrell, RGN
- Wendie Gibson, RGN
- Ewa Raton, RGN
- Gillian Aitken, RGN
- Anca Sirbu, RGN
- Adrian Woods, RMN
Senior Health Care Assistant
- Donna Campbell, SVQ2 Health and Social Care
Health Care Assistants
- Diane McGinn, SVQ3 Health and Social Care
- Liz Robertson, SVQ3 Health and Social Care
- Margaret Nelson
Therapy Staff
Lead Therapists
- Phillip Baron, NCAC. (Men’s Unit Lead, Extended Treatment Facility)
- Roseanne Boyle, ICADC*, Dip. Addiction Counselling (Castle Craig), COSCA Practitioner Member, RT. (Serenity Unit Lead, Extended Treatment Facility)
- Mark Abrami, ICADC*, Dip. Addiction Counselling (Castle Craig), PG Cert in Psychotherapy, MSc in Drug & Alcohol Studies, COSCA Practitioner. (Therapeutic Coordinator of Executive Programme)
Therapists
- Felix de By
- Kane Duffy
- Gordon Hogg
- Teri Lyn Fairnie, MNC Mental Health Counselling
- Jim Ferguson, Master of Counselling
- Tony Marini, HNC Counselling, PgDip Counselling.
- Frank O’Hare
- Angela Thomson, IC&RC ADC, Dip. Psychotherapeutic Counselling, BACP Accredited
- Jessica Tomlinson Hill
- Victoria Greenshields, MA (Hons) Psychology, MSc. Forensic Psychology
Recovery Advocates
- Paul Shannon
- Wendy Evans
- Kenneth Bald
*ICADC, IC&RC, (AODA): International Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor, International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse).
Fitness Trainers
- David Kilgour, Manager
- Scott Brownlie
Communications
- Victoria McCann, BA (Hons.), MSc, Senior Communications Manager
- Paul Rayner, BA, Communications Officer
Administrative Staff
Assistant Governance Manager
- Lucy Haden, Personal Assistant to Dr. McCann, MA (Hons.)
Admissions
- Alison Mills, Admissions Officer
- Anne Goodall
- Andrei Zamfir
- Alison McManus
Service Development Manager
- Don Whitaker B.Soc.Sci (Psych.)
HR Manager
- Janey Lawson
Personal Assistants
- June Beevers, Personal Assistant to Peter McCann
Information Technology
- Bruce Tait HND BSc, MBCS
Finance Staff
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- Scott Shields, Accountant
- Paul Valente, Accountant
- Helen Thomson, Accounts Assistant
- Patricia Smith, Finance Assistant
Hospital and Grounds Maintenance
- Dave Spence
- Janek Cichomski
- Andrei Bolesch
Housekeeping Department
- Maureen Crosbie, Deputy Housekeeper
- Angela Cruise, Housekeeping Supervisor