Ms Caroline Attard

Caroline has been a mental health nurse for over 23 years. Her career started in Malta her native country and expanded and developed in the UK for over 20 years. Her professional work includes working in different mental health settings including community mental health, crisis work and in-patient settings as a Nurse Consultant. She also worked at Oxford Brookes University and Thames Valley University teaching under and postgraduates in mental health and Psychosocial intervention.

Caroline area of expertise is improvement work she has an expansive portfolio of Quality improvement improvements in mental health and beyond using Quality improvement methodology including reducing prone restraint, restrictive practice, reducing self harm and reducing violence and aggression amongst many others.

Her special area of interest is also Psych social interventions for psychosis. She also has a passion in coproduction improvement work with service users and families and have developed an emotional unstable personality disorder pathway in coproduction with service users. Caroline is also the co -author and editor of the “Oxford textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry”. More recently Caroline was the head of the Quality improvement programme part of a complete organisation lean transformation.

I am proud and excited to be a CNO Senior Clinical Nurse Fellow – The fellowship will allow me to continue to develop and learn whilst having the opportunity to influence national agendas in mental health nursing whilst using my skills, knowledge and tool set to improve mental health, mental health nursing and services for service users and families