I first joined Canterbury Christ Church University as a part time lecturer for the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Programme in 2013, when working as a return to practice health visitor in Kent, having worked formerly as a health visitor (central London), community development health visitor (single regeneration budget, Merton), and lead nurse for safeguarding children and young people (West Kent) before taking a career break to raise my family in 2004. It was during my career break that I was able to further develop my knowledge in safeguarding children and young people, through undertaking a Masters in Child Studies for Safeguarding practitioners at King's College London, having completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Promoting Mental Health in Children and Young People when working as health visitor in central London. My particular interests continue to be in the field of infant and perinatal mental health, advancing children’s rights through effective safeguarding practice, and early intervention to promote health and wellbeing in children and young people and their families, and I now wish to further develop experiential learning and interprofessional development opportunities in higher education.
Mrs Karen Hynes
Associate Lecturer and Academic Sessional
School of Allied and Public Health Professions - Postgraduate and Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS)