We are

• encouraging and empowering our nursing, midwifery and allied health professional leaders to influence and shape high quality care locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

We will

• design and deliver innovative and bespoke training to nurture our current and next generation of clinical leaders ensuring they are confident, capable and equipped to lead their teams and services with compassion and inclusivity.

• have an inclusive, visible, credible framework of leadership across nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals modelling the range of potential career progression and leadership opportunities across the professions.
  

Find out more about our new five year Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHPs) Strategy

How we are delivering this priority

A key priority for our NMAHPs strategy is developing leaders of the future – nurturing them through a range of career progression and leadership opportunities.

Dr Karen Marshall is a Nurse Consultant at the RVI’s Chest Clinic where she holds her own clinics for patients with a range of respiratory conditions. She explains what her recent appointment as the North East Thoracic Society’s President – the first nurse in its 104 year history – means to her.

Paula Dimarco is an Advanced Physiotherapist working in a critical care unit that specialises in neurological conditions or injuries, and major trauma.

Through her interaction with the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine she became aware of a forum they were hosting on the topic of major trauma and brain injury, which is directly relevant to her clinical practice.

She discussed the opportunity of attending the conference with her line manager as part of her personal develop plan and then with the department’s clinical educator – collectively they agreed that the conference would also benefit a number of her colleagues and seven of them were able to attend.