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 setting.

Caroline held senior clinical roles in various organisations focusing on advanced clinical practice including being an in-patient Nurse Consultant. She also worked at Oxford Brookes University and Thames Valley University teaching under and postgraduate mental health nursing and Psychosocial interventions. Caroline’s 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, self harm, violence and aggression amongst many others.

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

Caroline joined NHS England Improvement in 2022 as a senior clinical fellow as part of the Chief nursing officer for England national fellowship program before joining more recently the mental health improvement team as a mental health improvement advisor. Carolines educational portfolio includes yellow, green and black belt in Lean Methodology , Masters in Leadership in Health care, Masters in non-medical prescribing, a BSc Hons in psycho social intervention for psychosis, various advanced CBT qualifications and registered mental health nursing."