Chris qualified as an adult and mental nurse in the late 1980’s and has worked in a range of specialist health care areas covering both senior nurse and general management roles in London and latterly the West Country.
Currently Chris is the deputy Director of nursing and practice working for a mental health NHS  provider in Devon, his focus is on quality and safety of services and has a keen interest in ensuring the person in receipt of services with their carer/ family and staff are all engaged from the beginning of their journey within services.
Chris is a qualified coach and utilises this approach in all areas of his work to ensure staff attain their optimal goals in a solution focussed approach.
Chris is also engaged with the Care Quality Commission as a specialist mental health advisor  as part of inspections of mental health providers across the country.

Amy has been qualified as a Learning Disability Nurse for 5 years and was not originally trained as a general nurse. Although she was trained in Learning Disabilities, she always wanted to work in the acute sector. Therefore since qualifying she has always worked in neurology, starting in the private sector working at a neuro hospital with patients who have had traumatic brain injuries. She then went onto work at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation unit which was very interesting and challenging. She wanted to develop her clinical skills and applied to North Bristol Trust. Being Learning Disability trained nurse did not hold her back in pursing her career.
She started on the stroke ward which she absolutely loved and realised her passion for stroke. She was fortunate enough to be placed on various courses at masters level.
She worked on the acute stroke ward for 2 and a half years, then the opportunity arose due to the expanding service to become a stroke nurse practitioner. She loves her specialist role; stroke is forever changing and developing. There are amazing treatments which have improved patients quality of life, saving lives and reducing the chances of someone being severely disabled after a stroke. Enabling them to be as independent as possible.