PROFESSIONALQUALIFICATIONS:

BSc (Hons) Specialist Practitioner Adult Intensive Care 2004

DIPHE Nursing Studies (RGN - Adult) 2000

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

RCN (Royal College of Nursing)

NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council)

CURRICULUM VITAE

Lianne Brown has over 17 years post qualification experience. Lianne qualified as a Registered General Nurse in adult nursing from Salford University in 2000.

Lianne embarked upon her nursing career in a general intensive care unit within a large North West teaching hospital. Experience was gained in the nursing of the acutely ill patients with a variety of complex needs and long term conditions, including but not limited to, respiratory and renal conditions, acute trauma cases, neurological conditions, head injuries, spinal cord injuries. The role included care planning, delivering patients holistic care needs and working with the critical care teams to effectively manage and plan care. Lianne was keen at this time to also be involved in the critical care outreach team and repatriation of the critically ill.

In 2004 Lianne gained her BSc Honors degree as a specialist nurse practitioner in adult intensive care. After 6 years in intensive care and working up to a senior level. Lianne left the public sector in 2006 to work in the private healthcare sector.

Lianne’s experience in the private sector has been in setting up and managing complex care packages at individuals home and in the community setting, for adults and children with a wide range of disabilities and long term conditions, including spinal cord and acquired or traumatic brain injury clients.

Lianne has vast experience in arranging and managing the discharge of patients with complex care needs back to their home environment to live independently, liaising and co-ordinating with multi-disciplinary teams across the public and private sector, statutory services and health commissioners to ensure clients’ holistic needs are fully and appropriately met.

In 2009 Lianne was promoted to a Regional Clinical Manager and as such line managed a team of operational and clinical staff to personally deliver and deliver by delegation, a high quality clinical care service to all customers in line with care plans, contracts and individual assessment needs throughout the North of England. Part of Lianne’s role in line with the business was to ensure CQC Standards were applied and adhered too across the North of the UK. Working in close partnership with multi-disciplinary teams across the community setting in both primary and secondary care, specifically the Continuing Health Care Commissioning Teams in respect of assessments, reviews, on-going issues, Safeguarding Incidents etc. As a regional clinical manger, Lianne was part of the safeguarding committee, responsible for reviewing safeguarding alerts across the business looking at lessons learned, best practices and quality improvement plans, ultimately implementing any changes into practice.

Lianne is a highly motivated individual, dedicated to her career and a client-focused nurse with proven strengths in people and team management, leadership, staff development, complex clinical care provision, planning and implementing complex client discharges from hospital to home, and conducting timelyassessments of individual needs.

Through Lianne’s past experience of caring for the most complex cases, she has shown her willingness not only to care for her clients but also supporting the clients immediate family with a full holistic approach to care, whilst keeping close liaison with the multiple health care professionals required to meet complex client needs.