Dr Michelle Moseley

Michelle is a Registered Nurse (Adult, Child), Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) – Health visitor, Nurse Educator and educated to PhD level. Michelle’s recent doctoral study explored the supportive nature of safeguarding supervision for health visitors. Michelle has had a varied career in nursing, qualifying in 1994 as a Registered General Nurse and immediately pursuing a career as a paediatric nurse where she gained experience in general paediatrics, paediatric cardiac intensive care, paediatric intensive care and paediatric community nursing. After 10 years in acute paediatric settings

 

Michelle shifted her career in caring for the well child and achieved a BSc (Hons in Community Health Studies in 2004 which allowed her to register as a Health Visitor. From that point Michelle focussed on supporting parents/carers in giving their children the best start in life. The health visitor role exposed

Michelle to safeguarding children practice and in 2007 she became Lead Nurse Safeguarding Children in a Local Welsh Health Board. This led Michelle to teach safeguarding children practice to student health visitors as part of the Health Visitor programme at Cardiff University.

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Teaching became a passion, and Michelle went on to become a lecturer within this programme and very soon managed it leading curriculum development, supporting students and developing innovative teaching and learning practices. Michelle undertook several senior lecturer roles within the School of Healthcare studies. In 2020 Michelle became Education and Lifelong Learning Adviser at the Royal College of Nursing, Wales and later was seconded into Welsh Government a spart of the Chief Nursing Officer Wales team, to develop an all-Wales clinical supervision and preceptorship position statement. More recently Michelle was Head of the Kings Nursing Cadets where she was honoured to meet His Majesty King Charles III. Her PhD research focussed on exploring the supportive nature of safeguarding supervision for health visitors. Recommendations focus on the ultimate aim of enhancing safeguarding practice which is person-centred (baby, child, family, supervisee, supervisor), critically reflective and analytical, with the intention to support health visitors in reducing the emotional burden associated with the protection of babies, children and their families.

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Michelle’s passion for babies, children and young people attaining their full potential has always been at the heart of her practice, and her most current role as Director of Learning Development at the Institute of Health Visiting offers the opportunity to influence and develop UK Health Visitor practice.