Current appointment: community mental health team leader

PUBLICATIONS
Available on request

QUALIFICATIONS
Registered Mental Nurse
Diploma in Professional Studies in Nursing
Batchelor of Science (Honours) Community Healthcare Nursing.

EXPERIENCE
Delivered nursing lectures at Institute of Psychiatry, London.
Active participant at conferences including platform lecture.
Several poster presentations.
Nine years in acute in-patient psychiatry including five years at Maudsley Neuropsychiatric Unit, London. Six years as Community Psychiatric Nurse in generic psychiatry and eighteen months as community mental health team leader.

Provides nursing reports in all aspects of community psychiatry including assessments and interventions in PTSD, depression, psychosis, personality disorders and pseudo epilepsy. Special interest in risk assessment and management of suicidal behaviour and self harm. Evaluations of nursing records for consequential deviations from the required standards of care and identifying if care given followed current policies and procedures.