About

I am the Acting Discipline Lead for postgraduate Nursing and Professional Practice within the School of Nursing. This means I am involved with developing and supporting the delivery of modules and programmes that allow qualified health care professionals to develop their higher level knowledge and skills. I am passionate about ensuring the students receive a good experience with us and encourage proactive, positive communication strategies.

Research interests

Research interests include:

• A systematic review of teenage parents perspective of parenthood
• The flipped classroom approach to increasing community nurse prescribing
• Men working professionally in the Nursing and Health Visiting and their lived experience 

Membership of professional bodies

• Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• United Kingdom Standing Conference for Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Educators (UKSC)
• Institute of Health Visiting (iHV)
• Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy

Professional interests

My professional interests are child development and family health, including safeguarding vulnerable people and groups. Nursing and Public Health are integral to all areas of my practice and educational identity, resulting in me aiming to pass on public health messages whenever the opportunity presents itself. I am presently studying toward a professional doctorate and this takes up much of my time.

Qualifications

• Master of Public Health
• PG Cert Interprofessional Learning, Mentoring and Assessing.
• Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
• V100 Community Nurse Prescribing
• BSc Hons Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor)
• Registered General Nurse (Adult)

Recent conferences

• March 2016 - Poster display at the United Kingdom Standing Conference for SCPHN Educators annual Conference. Venue: Unite Building, London.
• April 2016 - Speaker 10-minute presentation, at the Postgraduate Student Research Conference. Venue: University of Derby.
• November 2016 - Speaker 10-minute presentation, at the Research Café. Venue: University of Derby.
• 25th Jan 2017 - Department of Health Care Practice Research Away Day. Aimed at Staff. Dr of Practice work to date.
• 20th July 2017 - Department of Health Care Practice Research Showcase Event. Presentation Title: A research journey towards doctoral study.

Experience in industry

I have extensive experience within the NHS both within the acute and community environments. My acute experience mainly focused on Accident and Emergency, orthopaedics and some gastroenterology.

The community experience came from working with the child and family team as a Health Visitor. During this time I worked closely with multiprofessional teams to ensure that the outcomes for children were met. I became a community nurse prescriber, an interest that continues today, to enhance my assessment skills and provide holistic care where possible.

Safeguarding is an integral part of working with children and, as a result, I teach neglect to a multiprofessional audience for the local children safeguarding board.

My experience across the nursing and health visiting spectrum established a passion to share my knowledge with others and as such I studied toward becoming an NMC stage 4 Teacher and have supported students both within the practice setting and laterly within the higher education learning environment.

Teaching responsibilities

I am the Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Certificate Interprofessional Education (IPPE) that is presently accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Advance Higher Education (Advance HE). I also teach across the community specialist programmes and Community Nurse Prescribing module, also providing bespoke individual workshops within Health organisations.

Additional interests and activities

I enjoy time with friends and family and try to keep getting outside whenever possible.