Jennifer Pearson has always had a passion for diversity equity and inclusion. in everything she does she ensures that there is a EDI lens included in patient care and staff wellbeing, she is clear in her leadership about authentic compassionate inclusive approaches to leading her teams. Hence one of the reasons she trained at masters level to [provide clinical supervision . She has a background in paediatric and adult cardiothoracic intensive care. She holds a strategic role as Head of Nursing at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and is Lead Nurse for Professional Nurse Advocates (PNA) delivering Restorative Clinical Supervision to nurses and led on the role out of PNA’s in her trust. She chairs the National Orthopaedic Alliance (N.O.A) Pathways network. Prior to taking on this role she was the Lead Nurse for Shared Governance at University Hospitals Birmingham where established nursing councils across the trust to improve Quality Improvement and patient experience. She was invited by the Chief Nurse to represent her trust on the Chief Nursing Officer (England) National Shared Governance Council where national frameworks are designed and agreed for direct care staff and was asked to Chair the council in Feb 2024. She completed the CNO sponsored Aspiring Director of Nursing Program and the Breaking Through Leadership Program.
She was one of the Lead Nurses on the BSOL Vaccination Programme and sat on the National Vaccine Reference Group whose role is centred on deciding best practice for organisations. She was Co-Chair for the CNO Delivery group whose membership includes the 11 system Chief Nurses, the groups’ purpose is to translate national priorities into Midlands specific actions to improve workforce and patient outcomes. She is also a committee member on the diaspora group Caribbean Nurses and Midwives Association (CNMA). She is currently completing QSIR training and is lead for QI projects to reduce patient cancellation on the day of surgery using digital means. She contributed to the international wound care and skin tone guide published an editorial about skin tone bias in Wounds UK in 2022.
Jennifer is the Midlands Regional Lead for the Chief Nursing Officer Chief Midwifery Officer (England) Strategic Nursing Advisory BME Group advocating for staff contributing to national policy and advisor to the Chief Nurse. The group won the HSJ award for staff wellbeing and finalists in Nov 22 for race equality. In that capacity she co-designed the nationally acclaimed positive action Developing Aspirant Leaders programme (DAL) now in its third year. She was a founding member of the first regional BAME network which was instrumental in increasing the attendance of BAME staff at RCN Congress. She is an Alumni member of the CPSA 90 days initiative following completion of the ‘Getting to Equity’ program for band 8c and above.
She is the winner of the RCN Making a Difference Award 2021 for her work involving vaccine uptake in BAME staff and communities following nomination by NHSE/I Midlands and voted BAME Nurse of the Year 2022 in the National Diversity Awards. She is a judge for the Kindness Awards for the second year, a UK Primary School initiative 2025. She was recognised as a local hero by the Association of Jamaican Nationals and awarded the Mary Seacole 75th NHS Windrush Award in Sept 2023 which was sponsored by Birmingham City University for the tireless work she led on to improve the knowledge of communities and NHS staff about the Covid Vaccine. She was recently named in the list of top 50 most influential health care leader in the HSJ bubbling under category of EDI leaders in 2023 and is delighted to be a current Florence Nightingale Established Leaders Scholar.
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