Management and Leadership Team

What is the role of the Management and Leadership Team (MLT)?

The role of MLT is to make sure community planning in Shetland is effective and efficient. They act as a programme board for delivery of the plan. They also confirm the strategic direction of the partnership. As a group MLT meet regularly through the year.

To facilitate Community Planning, MLT help to ensure that the Shetland Partnership focuses on the ‘Principles of Effective Community Planning’ set out in guidance:

  • Community participation
  • Tackling inequalities
  • Shared leadership
  • Governance and accountability
  • Understanding of local communities' needs, circumstances and opportunities
  • Focus on key priorities
  • Focus on prevention Shetland
  • Resourcing improvement
  • ective performance management

Meet the Team

Neil Grant

Director of Development Services - Shetland Islands Council

Katrina Wiseman

Area Manager, Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Stuart Clemenson

Shetland Area Commander - Highland & Islands Division, Police Scotland

Emma Macdonald

Political Leader - Shetland Islands Council

Maggie Sandison

Chief Executive - Shetland Islands Council

Gary Robinson

NHS Shetland Chair, Deputy Leader - Shetland Islands Council, Shetland Partnership Chair

Susan Laidlaw

Director of Public Health - NHS Shetland

Scott Gibson

Local Senior Officer - Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland Islands

Christine Ferguson

Director of Corporate Services, Shetland Islands Council

Philip Raines

Place Director for the Shetland Islands, and Deputy Director, Domestic Climate Change – Scottish Government

Brian Chittick

Chief Executive of NHS Shetland