Jena Davies Lead Nurse Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Dumfries and Galloway What inspired you to work in the community? I qualified in 2003 where my nursing journey began working in Secure Mental Health Services. I absolutely loved my job however often those I worked with had missed opportunities for earlier intervention that may…
Community Mental Health Nursing
Helen Bremner
Helen Bremner Community Mental Health/Clinical Team Manager NHS Tayside In what way has the Queen’s Nurse programme made a difference to how you practice? The programme has given me the opportunity to have a renewed sense of purpose and clarity of the kind of community nurse and leader I want to be. Spending time journaling, reflecting and…
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Davies Associate Lead Nurse for Mental Health NHS Highland What difference do you hope to have on the health and wellbeing of those you care for? Mental recovery is only real and meaningful when it is solid and sustained at home, within one’s own community. Mental health hospitals are often foremost in most people’s minds when…
Lorraine Daly
Lorraine Daly Associate Lead Nurse for Mental Health NHS Highland/ Argyll & Bute HSCP Previously Mental Health Nurse Team Leader, Complex Needs Service NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde/ Glasgow City HSCP In what way has the Queen’s Nurse programme made a difference to how you practice? I feel very privileged to be a Queen’s Nurse. The programme encouraged…
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…
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…
James Hill
James Hill Advanced Nurse Practitioner within Addiction Services NHS Ayrshire and Arran My inspiration came from supporting and caring for my sister. My mum was the main carer, but I took her to see doctors, specialists and to her hospital appointments. Research says that people recover better at home. In a more relaxed environment, they…
Claire Adamson
Claire Adamson Senior Community Mental Health Nurse Fife I qualified in 2008 and began my nursing journey working in various inpatient units, latterly working in an Older Adults Acute setting. I really loved my time there and hadn’t considered community nursing at that point. I always thought if I’m content then why change anything? I…
Karen Ritchie
Karen Ritchie Rapid Response Team, Senior Charge Nurse Lothian I always wanted to be a nurse; both my parents are mental health nurses and they inspired me. When I applied, I knew I wanted to work with older people. I did my General Nursing in Dundee initially and then specialised in Mental Health in Edinburgh.…
Lindsey Griffin
Lindsey Griffin Community Mental Health Nurse Perth I moved into a new post last year and now work as a Clinical and Professional Team Manager for Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership. I am based at Murray Royal Hospital in Perth but I travel between sites managing a range of staff that collectively are an integrated care team. Perth and Kinross covers a large area combining rural,…
