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Rachel Allen-Ashcrof
My professional background is as an Adult Nurse and Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute and Emergency Medicine. I have undertaken many roles within the National Health Service ranging from Band 5-Band 8A.
I have been teaching and delivering both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Advanced Practice Education
I am currently the Academic lead for CPD and Health Partnerships in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. I am responsible for supporting both small- and large-scale collaborative projects and support the work of the school in redesigning its CPD portfolio.
Daniela Collins
Daniela is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health with extensive expertise in research, executive coaching, course development, teaching, and assessment. She leads the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice in Mental Health and contributes to the MSc in Mental Health Nursing programme in collaboration with LSBU Global and iheed in Dublin. She holds an MSc in Mental Health from King’s College London, a PGCert in Higher Education, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has been a registered Lecturer/Practice Educator with the NMC since 2007.
Before her academic career, Daniela gained substantial clinical and managerial experience as a registered nurse and manager within the NHS, which continues to inform her teaching and research. Her professional interests include nursing leadership, workforce development, teaching, and coaching. Her research expertise includes project design and management, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, data analysis, publication, and supervision of master’s students.
She has collaborated with service users and international partners on co-produced mental health improvement initiatives across clinical and educational settings, including work with NHS Trusts, the WHO, the EU Commission, and Erasmus+. She is currently completing a Doctorate in Education.
Small Things, Big Difference is a four-part webinar series, delivered by iheed in partnership with London South Bank University, designed to support you over four months with practical tools, honest conversations, and expert insight.
Starting with your own well-being and expanding into key patient-focused topics, this free series will help you build resilience, confidence, and impact in your daily practice.
Session 1: Supporting Nurses’ Mental Health at Work
Nurses spend their careers supporting others, but often have limited time and space to focus on their own mental health.
This will be an engaging session on how to support the mental health and well-being of Nursing staff working both in the Mental Care space and the wider nursing community. We will be covering ways of building self-resilience, handling stigma & coping mechanisms, along with looking at the moral distress that exists for our Nursing colleagues.