I am Jane and I am a member of the Board of Directors for EdShift.
I am passionate about safeguarding and domestic abuse, at both a professional and personal level.
My professional experience and focus have been in safeguarding for many years.
My nursing career started in 1985, and I qualified as a Registered General Nurse / Registered Sick Children’s Nurse in 1989 in Salford and then went onto study BA (Hons) Social Policy and Administration between 1991 – 1994 in Nottingham.
I completed my BA (Hons) in Community Healthcare Nursing (Public Health Nursing – Health Visiting) in 1999 and worked directly with families in Nottingham and Kirklees as a Health Visitor from 1999 – 2008. A big part of my professional practice was linked to safeguarding and domestic abuse, and its impact on children from the antenatal period, through infancy and childhood. During my time as a Health Visitor, I developed a passion for safeguarding and completed MA (Distinction) in Child Welfare and Protection in 2010 from The University of Huddersfield whilst working full time.
In 2008 I was successful in securing a role as Senior Safeguarding Specialist in Nottingham and during my time in this role I developed my specialist knowledge of safeguarding and domestic abuse. My role involved providing support and advice to health professionals on the front line and facilitating safeguarding supervision and delivering safeguarding / domestic abuse training as well as being involved in safeguarding leadership across the organisation.
In 2015 I moved to a strategic safeguarding role in Nottingham as Associate Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children, and I have been in this post since then. This role is focussed on safeguarding leadership across the health economy.
After a very traumatic family experience of domestic abuse in 2024 I decided that I wanted to become involved in a domestic abuse organisation on a voluntary basis and EdShift seemed like an excellent fit which reflected my values and experience.