Development Manager Enhanced Healthy Child Pathway & Specialist Services
Blackpool Better Start
As a Development Manager for the Centre for Early Child Development, Melanie leads on the Enhanced Healthy Child Pathway and Specialist Services as part of the multi-agency Blackpool Better Start partnership, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. The Centre is reframing and driving systemic change across all services for 0-4 year olds and empowering communities to support and co-design this change. Melanie worked in the NHS as a Specialist Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health. Formerly Melanie’s background is in neonatal, research and specialist community public health nursing, working in NHS roles across Lancashire and South Cumbria.