Paediatric Educators Network -Supporting OpportunitiesTo allow Paediatric Educators across trusts throughout the United Kingdom to support, share and network to provide high quality education to those in clinical areas and offer support and guidance to others in paediatric education.
Meetings are held quarterly and chaired by a small nominated committee. The network aims to discuss new nursing developments, policies and national initiatives and examine how these may impact roles and responsibilities operationally and strategically. Network aims to collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and other interested agencies.
Attendees include nurse clinical educators across paediatric nursing from within a Trust or private provider in the United Kingdom. Attendees must work primarily in an education role. (For example, as a clinical educator, or placement facilitator)
Hello, my name is Gemma Williams – I am a Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing for Staffordshire University. I specialise in teaching clinical skills for children and young people requiring emergency care, as well as those with complex care needs and palliative care. I am a registered Children’s Nurse and Nursing & Midwifery Teacher, as well as being a Resuscitation UK Instructor and Sepsis Train the Trainer.
Hello, my name is Wendy Hart. I am registered children’s Nurse and work at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation trust as the continuous professional development practitioner.
I have worked in a wide variety of settings including, surgical, medical and theatres during my career over 25 years. I am passionate about training and developing our workforce to empower us to deliver outstanding patient care, I am particularly interested in the support and development of support staff and newly qualified nurses.
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Hello, my name is Louis Britten and I am the Head of Clinical Education and Practice development at Black County Healthcare. I have previously worked as a Practice Placement Manager at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS FT. I have worked in education for 8 years before having working in emergency care and then a cardiology unit. I also gained some experience in Malawi during a hospital exchange program.
My reason for helping to start this network is seeing the pandemic unfold and how colleagues came together to support and help one another made me realise that this can and should happen more. I know the job we all do is really important and makes a difference on just to staff and colleagues but patients as well. I am really excited to build this network, meet new people and share experiences as well as highlight the amazing work we all do.
Hi, my name is Becky Sandiford. I’m a Paediatric Practice Educator in the Paediatric emergency department at Royal Bolton Hospital. I have previously worked within Paediatric Haematology and Oncology for 4 years prior to moving to the emergency department in 2018. I’ve been in my Educator role since December 2022 and it’s a role that is still currently evolving and changing at a rapid rate.
My reason for joining the PEN-SO committee is to help enable a network of educators around the UK. I am passionate about inspiring and sharing ideas whilst also supporting both learners and educators in practice.”
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