The virtual Student and Newly Registered Nurse Careers Fair supported by Nursing Standard

Julie Watkins has worked for the RCN since 2007 and currently works as an RCN Careers Coach. She has a desire to support people throughout their career. In particular working with individuals to focus on their values and strengths, and how these align with career goals and aspirations.

Desiree is a Management Development Consultant working within the NHS for the past 18 years and with Louise Morton, leads the Preceptorship Programme, overseeing the successful implementation of the CapitalNurse Preceptorship and Early Careers Framework.

Desiree has worked in professional development for more than twenty years as a qualified coach, facilitator and trainer. With a background working in IT in both London and Paris, Desiree works with staff of all levels, developing people to help them to achieve their potential. This includes coaching, training, designing and delivering training programmes. As a project manager she takes a keen interest in developing and implementing new programmes in the NHS to encourage staff development and engagement.

Desiree specializes in leadership, communications and change management and is passionate about helping to develop people, believing that the human resources of an organisation are the most important asset for any company. She delivers management and leadership training across the NHS in London, working with primary care, community and acute trusts and is currently delivering the training for the GP mentoring programme across London. In addition to the CapitalNurse Preceptorship project, Desiree currently works on delivery of the Higher Development Award for Healthcare Assistants in London which won a Nursing Times Workforce Development Award in 2020.

Jacqueline Robinson-Rouse is the Clinical Lead CapitalNurse, working across London for Health Education England (HEE)and NHS England and NHS Improvement. In this role she works closely with Health and Care employers, nurses and health care professionals to create the right conditions for nurses to flourish in their careers, and to support local nurse leaders in the development and improvement of health services in the heart of London. CapitalNurse projects include Early Careers Preceptorship and beyond, Career Framework, Qualification in Specialism (QiS) and Digital Skills Passports streamlining employment offers and training for nurses to move freely across the Capital and help nurses to stay with the profession.
Jacqueline is a registered children’s nurse and a nurse teacher and has 30 years’ experience in the NHS working in both acute, tertiary centres and across the health and social care sector. She has previously been Assistant Director of Nursing Workforce and Nursing Workforce Lead at Great Ormond Street for Children London as well as a holding a range of roles in leadership, management and education roles at local, regional and national level.

Professor Daniel Kelly is the RCN Chair of Nursing Research based at Cardiff University. His career has been spent mainly in oncology nursing practice, education and research roles. In this seminar he will talk about his wide experience in nursing research and advice on finding a focus for your future career. 

Desiree is a Management Development Consultant working within the NHS for the past 18 years and with Louise Morton, leads the Preceptorship Programme, overseeing the successful implementation of the CapitalNurse Preceptorship and Early Careers Framework.

Desiree has worked in professional development for more than twenty years as a qualified coach, facilitator and trainer. With a background working in IT in both London and Paris, Desiree works with staff of all levels, developing people to help them to achieve their potential. This includes coaching, training, designing and delivering training programmes. As a project manager she takes a keen interest in developing and implementing new programmes in the NHS to encourage staff development and engagement.

Desiree specializes in leadership, communications and change management and is passionate about helping to develop people, believing that the human resources of an organisation are the most important asset for any company. She delivers management and leadership training across the NHS in London, working with primary care, community and acute trusts and is currently delivering the training for the GP mentoring programme across London. In addition to the CapitalNurse Preceptorship project, Desiree currently works on delivery of the Higher Development Award for Healthcare Assistants in London which won a Nursing Times Workforce Development Award in 2020.

Sam is a second-year learning disability nursing student at the University of Hull. He has worked with people with learning disabilities for many years in various roles. He is passionate about patients receiving the best possible care where their unique health challenges are addressed holistically. He is into peer support and education. He always tries to provide a learning disability angle when participating in peer support discussions on social media to educate other health care professionals.
As well as a proud @WeStudentNurse team lead, he is also student rep at the University of Hull. At the end of the day, when he wants to unwind from all things nursing, I he enjoys a boxset marathon, socialising with friends, has a newfound love for driving, he loves a road trip!
Twitter handle: @scPALMERNASH

Dr Crystal Oldman CBE is Chief Executive of the Queen’s Nursing Institute. Crystal qualified as a nurse at UCH, London.

Crystal also spent 18 years in Higher Education, where her role as Dean included the development of evidence based practice within the integrated community nursing, primary and social care workforce.

Crystal’s interest in leadership and management inspired her doctoral studies.

Crystal is a Governing Body Nurse with Buckinghamshire CCG.

In 2017, Crystal was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to community nursing and her leadership of the QNI. Crystal is an Honorary Professor at LSBU

Dr Chiara Dall’Ora is a registered nurse and lecturer at the University Of Southampton. She leads a research programme around nurses’ shift patterns and her research focuses on how to best organise the nursing workforce to support their wellbeing, reduce burnout, and improve patient outcomes. Chiara's work mainly entails designing and performing large workforce studies using quantitative routinely collected data. She leads the teaching on occupational health and workforce wellbeing for pre-registration nursing students.

Mairead is a previous winner of the RCNi Student Award and is now a newly qualified mental health nurse. She has worked locally and internationally with the Givernment of Northern Ireland, the European Human Rights Network and the Community Enrichment United Nations on i proving mental health services in Northern Ireland.
Mairead helped to establish MyStory YourStory, a campaign to embed a mental health champion in NI Government and to create a toolkit for schools to address mental health alongside implementing mental health.