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Public Health Nursing in the Next 10 Years

Greg Fell is the Director of Public Health in Sheffield. He graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He has worked as a social researcher in a maternity unit; a number of roles in health promotion and public health before joining the public health training scheme. Greg worked as a consultant in public health in Bradford in the PCT then Bradford council. Since Feb 2016 he has worked for Sheffield City Council as the Director of Public Health for the city. Greg was also appointed to the role of Vice President to the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) in December 2021.

Professor Waterall has had a varied career, working across local, regional, national and global positions within the health and care sector. He has led several high-profile areas such as the NHS Health Check, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Family Nurse Partnership programmes. He currently serves as England’s Deputy Chief Public Health Nurse in the Department of Health and Social Care’s Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

He has published on a wide range of subjects and continues to hold several honorary appointments, such as his Honorary Professorial positions at the University of Nottingham and the University of Hull. Jamie strongly believes that the 2020’s need to be a decade of global transformation, which sees health and care systems placing a stronger focus on preventing illness, promoting health and wellbeing and protecting the public’s health.

Children’s Commissioner’s address’

Dame Rachel is a nationally recognised educator and advocate for improving the life chances of disadvantaged children. Before her appointment as Children’s Commissioner, she led two schools from failing to outstanding, before founding and leading the Inspiration Trust, a family of fourteen schools in East Anglia. The Trust was twice ranked as the nation’s top group of comprehensive schools based on pupil progress at GCSE. She was made a Dame in 2014 for services to education.

Dame Rachel was appointed Children’s Commissioner in 2021. In this role she has unique legislative powers, is an advocate for children across the country, and represents children’s needs across Government. In role, Dame Rachel has completed the largest-ever survey of children ‘The Big Ask’ with over half-a-million responses. This work led to a commission from Government to look at representing children’s voice in the Online Safety Bill, an ongoing piece of work into driving up Attendance in schools, and she has been asked to complete the Family Review by Government.

Opportunities for school nursing: the primary care interface and social prescribing – adding capacity and value

Dr Joe Hall has lived and worked in Tower Hamlets, East London for the last 20 years as a GP Partner at Bromley by Bow Health Partnership. Joe has led on a number of initiatives including the transformation of a local practice to CQC Outstanding, the set-up of a local PCN, and he is currently vice-Chair of the GP Federation (Tower Hamlets GPCG) who run a number of contracts in East London including the Tower Hamlets 0-19 service and School Nursing. Joe is a GP trainer and tutor for QMUL. He is also Chair of Governors of one of the largest schools in Tower Hamlets and mentors sixth formers applying to medicine. In his spare time he runs marathons, enjoys music, football and catching up with his wife and two teenagers.

We are excited to offer a workshop programme of topics which our members identified as important areas in School Nursing practice. These workshops are delivered by topic experts from within our school nursing community and those in partnership organisations who SAPHNA work with. Delegates will be able to select to attend 2 of 6 workshops to attend during the afternoon. Post conference you will be able to access the recordings of the workshops that you have been unable to attend on the day of the conference

Carolyn has been working in and around Public Health nursing for nearly twenty years. After training as a Children’s Nurse at the Florence Nightingale Institute in London and working in the area for a while, she spent several years in private schools before moving to community school nursing. She gained her MSc Health Promotion and Public Health at Southampton Solent University and moved from frontline practice into commissioning whilst living in Portsmouth. After moving to Norfolk for a change of pace, she returned to school nursing until an opportunity arose to be the clinical member of the Children and Young People’s Team in Public Health in Norfolk, a role which involved writing a brand new, outcomes based, service specification for the Healthy Child Programme.

During her time in Public Health, Carolyn undertook the ILM5 Coaching and Mentoring course and discovered a passion for working with fellow health professionals, coaching them with whatever their work or life situation might be. She left Public Health in early 2022 to pursue a portfolio career which includes coaching SCPHNs and other allied staff in the Healthy Child Programme, individually and as teams, and has not looked back….

We are excited to offer a workshop programme of topics which our members identified as important areas in School Nursing practice. These workshops are delivered by topic experts from within our school nursing community and those in partnership organisations who SAPHNA work with. Delegates will be able to select to attend 2 of 6 workshops to attend during the afternoon. Post conference you will be able to access the recordings of the workshops that you have been unable to attend on the day of the conference

Hope Virgo is a multi-award winning mental health campaigner and advocate for people with eating disorders. She is the author of several books on eating disorders and recovery, including You Are Free (Even If You Don’t Feel Like It), Hope Through Recovery and Stand Tall, Little Girl: Standing up To Anorexia. She leads the #DumpTheScales campaign and is a founder of the Hearts Minds and Genes Coalition for Eating Disorders.

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We are excited to offer a workshop programme of topics which our members identified as important areas in School Nursing practice. These workshops are delivered by topic experts from within our school nursing community and those in partnership organisations who SAPHNA work with. Delegates will be able to select to attend 2 of 6 workshops to attend during the afternoon. Post conference you will be able to access the recordings of the workshops that you have been unable to attend on the day of the conference

At the age of 18 when I told my mum that I wanted to become a nurse, she laughed and said that I would never make it. Back then, I fainted at the sight of blood and was extremely squeamish! I am pleased to say that I did go on to qualify as a nurse and 39 years later I am also an RSCN, SCPHN – school nurse and Queen’s Nurse. My nursing career has enabled me to travel extensively and I have nursed in Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Upon returning to the UK I set about becoming a community nurse and soon settled on school nursing. I have now been in school nursing for 24 years and have worked on both the frontline and in management. Throughout my career I have had the pleasure of working with many inspirational female leaders whom I have admired and attempt to emulate. I am grateful to them all for leading the way.

We are excited to offer a workshop programme of topics which our members identified as important areas in School Nursing practice. These workshops are delivered by topic experts from within our school nursing community and those in partnership organisations who SAPHNA work with. Delegates will be able to select to attend 2 of 6 workshops to attend during the afternoon. Post conference you will be able to access the recordings of the workshops that you have been unable to attend on the day of the conference

Rachel graduated from the joint faculty of St George’s hospital medical school and Kingston University in 2000 as a children’s nurse and starting her career working at Great Ormond St Hospital specialising in Cardiology, PICU and radiology.

Rachel spent almost 3 years working on the surgical, trauma and orthopaedic unit at the children’s hospital at Westmead in Sydney before graduating the University of Greenwich in 2015 with a further degree in specialist community public health school nursing. Her dissertation focused on the young person’s experience of their sexual health education. Rachel worked for Oxleas NHS trust as a specialist school nurse before being promoted to professional development lead and school nurse team leader. She joined CLCH in October 2020 as the high impact area lead for the youth justice service and pupil referral units and has an interest in contextual safeguarding and youth participation. In 2021 Rachel gradated with an MA in childhood and youth where her dissertation focused on designing research where school nurses work collaboratively with creative arts teachers to build a scheme of work to improve the mental wellbeing of young people – she is currently PhD pondering! In 2022 Rachel was made a Queens Nurse and was also named as the trust’s clinician of the year.

Henry (Hen) Sloman was the first student ambassador at SAPHNA and has recently qualified as a school nurse for several years. Henry works closely with Derbyshire Community Health Services and works as a consultant in both school nursing and inclusion.

Henry has a passion for supporting LGBT+ young people and have their voices heard in this difficult climate. Henry has previously presented webinars for SAPHNA in the past and has lectured at several universities on the topic of supporting LGBT+ young people

We are excited to offer a workshop programme of topics which our members identified as important areas in School Nursing practice. These workshops are delivered by topic experts from within our school nursing community and those in partnership organisations who SAPHNA work with. Delegates will be able to select to attend 2 of 6 workshops to attend during the afternoon. Post conference you will be able to access the recordings of the workshops that you have been unable to attend on the day of the conference

Julie qualified as nurse in 1982 and began my career in Accident and Emergency Nursing before moving to School Nursing in 1994 and undertaking her SCPHN in 2001. Julie became a Team Leader before undertaking her PGCPE in 2005 and then taking on a combined role as Team Leader and Practice Teacher. During 2017-2018 she was Acting Clinical Lead for the service. In 2018 she moved to Clinical Service Lead and Practice Teacher in a London Borough. Julie was seconded part time to lecture in safeguarding for school nurses. She was nominated for a Well Child Award in 2006 and received the Best Community Practitioner Award. Julie joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 2022 as a lecturer in Work Based Learning/Professional Development