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Christine moved to Ipswich, to join the Community Nurse Team as Lecturer at the University of Suffolk in January 2010, having previously worked in the Professional Development Team at Berkshire West Primary Care Trust in Reading. Her previous roles had been as Practice Environment Facilitator and Learning Development Lead supporting all health professions in their pre-registration training in practice and students on the health visiting, school nursing and district nurse programmes. She had worked closely with colleagues at South Central Strategic Health Authority and partner Higher Education Institutes. Christine has had an interesting professional career in which she specialised in orthopaedic trauma for 12 years, before taking a career change in which she trained as a health visitor in 1990. The prompt for her change of direction was a growing interest in public health. Within her health visiting role, she progressed to practice teacher and followed this with a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health and eventually completed a Master Degree in Education for Health and Social Care at the University of Reading in 2010. In 2011, The Health Visiting Implementation Plan - A Call to Action was launched by the government. Christine worked with the community team, partner organisations and health authority to recruit and train over three hundred health visitor students to meet government targets by 2015. Christine is now a Senior Lecturer for Health Visiting with the Community Nurse Team, part of the Department of Health Sciences. She teaches predominantly on the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) programme, training health visitors and school nurses. As a link lecturer and practice adviser, Christine visits and supports staff and students practising in the community in the county of Norfolk. She is also an external examiner for the SCPHN programme at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Christine was awarded the Fellowship of the Institute of Health Visiting in March 2015. The benefits of a Fellow is to raise the profile of the university and its commitment to developing health visiting practice. Attendance at a Leadership Development Programme came as part of the award. Christine is also a champion in Perinatal Mental Health, Domestic Violence and Healthy Weight and Healthy Nutrition with the Institute. Christine has also presented at a number of conferences including the 3rd & 4th International Community Public Health Nurse Conference in Galway City, Ireland and Billund Denmark.

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