about me

I started nurse training in September 1994 and qualified in September 1997 as a mental health nurse. There followed a year working on an acute mental health ward, then I moved to a rehabilitation unit for adults recovering from mental health problems and run by Social services, where I worked as a Residential Social Worker for 4 years.

In 2002 I returned to mental health nursing, and I now work in a unit for adults recovering from mental health difficulties. So I count myself fortunate that I have experience of both the social and the medical models of mental health care.

Prior to starting nurse training I worked for five years as an orderly in the main operating theatre of a general hospital.

Since the end of 2004 I have been an accredited safety representative of the
Royal College of Nursing. As an RCN representative I have also sat on two Improving Working Lives Practice Plus validation panels and was an NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework panellist. In the past I have also been a steward for the Unison union.

I am married, and we have a son aged four years. I have a daughter aged 17 years and two stepchildren aged 15 and 18.

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