Carly Green, Continuing Professional Development Lead
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Judith Rees is Director of Operations at The For Baby’s Sake Trust. Her role includes operational leadership of the charity’s ground-breaking For Baby’s Sake programme, the teams delivering it and the development of resources and training, based on the programme’s ways of working. Judith worked in the NHS for 33 years, including as Staff Nurse, Midwife, Health Visitor, Practice Teacher, Safeguarding Children’s Nurse and Team Leader for Health Visitors and School Nurses. She set up the Family Nurse Partnership Team in Hertfordshire and was Supervisor for four years. Judith has an MSc in Child Protection and Child Welfare.
Rhona Clover is the Head of Operational Health Visiting Services in East and South Kent and the strategic lead for the Family Partnership Programme at Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust. She also leads on developing their sustainable workforce & delivery model and programmes providing interventions across the six high impact areas. Rhona co-chairs the iHV Corporate Leads Network and has special interests in education, quality and standards.
I currently work for Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC as a Clinical Service Manager. I qualified as a Health Visitor in Oxford in 2000 and practiced as a HV in Nottingham. I have worked across the city and have a good understanding of the challenges of inner city working. I managed Children’s Public Health 0-19 Nursing Service integrated teams, which are aligned with Children’s Centre Early Help teams for 10 years. I then retired and returned to manage the Targeted Healthy Lifestyle Pilot. I am passionate about early intervention and prevention of poor health outcomes.
Robust clinical background in Children’s Nursing with experience in General Paediatrics, Burns and care of Children and Young People requiring medical or surgical intervention for congenital and acquired heart disease. Subsequently qualified as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) with a desire to support infants, children and their families achieve the best start and using evidence-based interventions to support this.
Currently a Clinical Team Lead, provide compassionate leadership to the skill mix team. Interested in Complex Health Needs, Prematurity, Minor Illness management and Accident Prevention. Professional Nurse Advocate.
Christopher is a Health Visitor and Clinical Academic Fellow who is undertaking PhD research on how parents of young children respond to childhood illness and make decisions to use unscheduled care services as a single system within NHS Scotland.
Helen is an Early Years Specialist at Better Start Bradford and has most recently been working to co-create an Integrated Pathway for Speech, Communication and Language (SCL) for the district. 10 years’ experience of working in schools has enabled Helen to see the challenges families often face when accessing support for their SCL needs and led her to be a passionate advocate of “Communication as everyone’s business.” Embracing a whole systems approach and utilising the expertise of specialist services, health visitors and parents – amongst others, Helen has supported Bradford to create a pathway which is accessible by all.
Dr Catina Adams is a Midwife and Nurse academic. She coordinates the Child, Family, and Community Nursing course.
She was awarded her PhD in October 2022, asking how the Enhanced Maternal and Child Health program supports women experiencing family violence. Her research interests include Neurodivergence, Family Violence; Perinatal anxiety; Child, Family, and Community nursing practice; father- and non-birth parent inclusive practice; family-centred care; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; telehealth; and Clinical Governance.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4899-4553
Having qualified in adult nursing in 2007, I have subsequently undertaken further study in midwifery, and specialist community public health nursing qualification.
In 2018 I completed by MSc in public health which lead me on to consider furthering my research interest. In 2021 I embarked on my PhD journey, with the title of my thesis – In Conversations with health visitors and women: talking about domestic abuse. Analysing experience through a feminist lens.
My interests lie within VAWG, domestic abuse, feminism, and the exploration of issues through those with experience.
