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…
Child and Family Health Nursing
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…
Keri Hollis
Keri Hollis Health Visitor Angus My primary role is making a difference in children’s’ lives to make sure they have the best possible start. The other part is supporting health visitors doing the job themselves. I have worked in health visiting for almost 20 years, most recently as a team leader with NHS Tayside based at Whitehills Health and Community Centre in Forfar. My job involves…
Christina Guinnane
Christina Guinnane Family Nurse Renfrew I am a community midwife working as a family nurse with Renfrew Health and Social Care Partnership and I work within a large area of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC). The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is an intensive home visiting programme for women aged 19 and under having their first baby. Young women are invited to voluntarily enrol…
Nikki Forsyth
Nikki Forsyth Health Visitor Portlethen I work in the town of Portlethen which is close to the local city of Aberdeen. It is quite an affluent urban area with a high population of young children. As a health visitor, I work with the families of under-5s, delivering the universal pathway, monitoring and reviewing child development and…
Jen Grant
Jen Grant School Nurse Fife The Fife School Nursing Service works with children and young people aged 5-19 years old and their families, to assess and identify health needs. Our service has three bases across Fife. The base I work within covers Glenrothes to the Tay Road Bridge and all the towns and villages in-between. A full round trip of all the schools…
Margaret-Ann Williamson
Margaret-Ann Williamson In her role as Health Visitor Team Lead for NHS Forth Valley covering Clackmannanshire, Margaret-Ann Williamson has been responsible for supporting staff through a period of change with the introduction of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway over the last few years. My Journey When I was in sixth year at school, deciding the…
Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Smith In her role as a community infant feeding nurse, Elizabeth Smith provides support to mothers across NHS Ayrshire & Arran while also promoting cultural changes within the community to encourage breastfeeding. My Journey I knew I wanted to be a nurse from quite a young age. I went to the University of Glasgow…
Keri Ratter
Keri Ratter Keri Ratter works as a school nurse in Shetland and is passionate about delivering the right care for children and young people across the islands. My Journey I grew up reading the Twinkle comic and I cherished my Nurse Nancy badge I received as a little girl – I still have it to…
Rachel Pulman
Rachel Pulman Rachel Pulman is a Child Protection and Looked After Children’s Nurse for NHS Borders who is known for her extensive knowledge and expertise in supporting the health needs of vulnerable children and young people. My Journey I have always wanted to be a nurse. My grandmother and my aunties were nurses and I…