Lynsey Callaghan Family Nurse Partnership Supervisor NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde What are the skills/expertise you need to work as a Family Nurse Partnership Supervisor? As a Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Supervisor, I lead a team of 6 Family Nurses from a variety of backgrounds in the delivery of the FNP programme, to mum’s aged…
Child and Family Health Nursing
Nicki Corrigan
Nicki Corrigan Service Manager for Outreach Children’s Hospices Across Scotland What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? CHAS support babies, children and young people whose time is precious. I hope to support my team to help these children to live as full a life as they can,…
Elizabeth Briody
Elizabeth Briody Senior Nurse within Children’s Services NHS Lanarkshire What inspired me to work in the community? I consider myself as privileged to have spent the majority of my nursing career working within the community in different roles initially as a Staff Nurse, a Health Visitor and now as a Senior Nurse within Children’s Services…
Sally Walton
Sally Walton Senior Charge Nurse (Community Children’s Nurse Team) NHS Dumfries and Galloway I originally worked in a hospital but moved into the community as a Health Visitor. I have always felt that you get to know families a little better at home and in a different way. Being in a home environment lets you…
Oonagh McPherson
Oonagh McPherson Community Mental Health Nurse (Children and Adolescents) NHS Tayside I work with children and young people with mental health problems. The overall difference I want to make is for them to feel happy and healthy – enabling belonging, and purpose in their own way. I want to ensure that the children and young people…
Protected: Elizabeth Gillespie
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Karen Drummond
Karen Drummond Community Charge Nurse – Perinatal Mental Health Service NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde I have worked in the Perinatal Mental Health Service for seven years now. Initially as a staff nurse in the mother and baby unit and now as a psychiatric nurse in the community team. Working in the community enables me…
Emma Visca
Emma Visca Senior Health Visitor NHS Dumfries and Galloway I grew up in a council house scheme and I’ve always loved that sense of community. All your neighbours looked out for you, and it was like a big family, the sense of a diverse group pulling together to help one another. It was the nursing…
Debbie Wishart
Debbie Wishart Health Visitor NHS Forth Valley Based at the recently built Doune Health Centre, my post with NHS Forth Valley covers rural Stirlingshire. It’s an affluent, often remote community. There are a few villages but it’s mainly farms, with roughly 200 families. Visits often involve tricky journeys along remote, winding roads. I sometimes travel to these visits thinking the road has ended – but there will be a farm…
Kirsten Kernaghan
Kirsten Kernaghan Sexual Health Nurse Edinburgh I have been working in the area of sexual health with a focus on young people now for the past 16 years. My current role is as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner based at NHS Lothian’s Chalmers Sexual Health Service in the centre of Edinburgh. We work hard to ensure we provide services in…
