Lecturer Details: GM Webinar: Level 2 Child Safeguarding Training for Dental Practices.

Lecturer nameNicola Brown
Lecturer profileNamed Nurse Safeguarding Children/Children in Care (Manchester Foundation Trust)

Nicola qualified as a paediatric nurse in 2007. Her passion for safeguarding developed whilst working as a paediatric burns nurse where she gained exposure to safeguarding investigations leading her to apply for a position as Specialist Nurse Safeguarding Children in 2012 at Central Manchester Hospitals. Since then she has worked in several specialist safeguarding roles across hospital, mental health and community health services. In her current role she is service manager for the Safeguarding and Children in Care teams within Trafford community health services and promotes good professional practice within safeguarding across the organisation.

Nicola has over a decade of experience working in operational safeguarding, supporting with complex safeguarding cases and providing specialist safeguarding consultation and supervision to frontline practitioners. She has contributed to multiple statutory reviews regarding children who have died or suffered serious harm due to abuse and developed action plans to embed organisational learning into practice.
Lecturer nameVicky Burt Safeguarding Operational Lead for Mastercall Healt
Lecturer profileSafeguarding Operational Lead for Mastercall Healthcare.

Vicky has worked as a safeguarding Midwife in the children’s multi-agency safeguarding hub in Manchester and then moved to working in the same hub but on the adult safeguarding team. This included training numerous GP practices.

Vicky has worked as safeguarding practitioner at the Christie, during this time she completed a 'train the trainer' course. She delivered safeguarding training levels 1-3 to a variety of staff members.

Vicky now works as safeguarding operational lead at Mastercall Healthcare and delivers safeguarding level 3 training to clinical staff as well as more bespoke training when the need arises. This training has now been adapted and is delivered over Microsoft teams due to the covid-19 pandemic.