Caroline Stevens

Caroline has the role of assistant lecturer within the Children and young people’s health team. For the majority of her career so far she has worked within the community setting. She worked for seven years in the community children's nursing service in Wolverhampton. This involved visiting children, young people and their families to provide wound care, enteral feeding advice, palliative care, tracheostomy care, constipation and soiling advice and epilepsy management. She then moved into the school nursing service within Wolverhampton, becoming the lead practitioner for schools that cater for children and young people who have a learning disability or complex cognitive difficulties. Many of these young people have complex health needs also.

Caroline provided training to education staff about how to manage common conditions within the classroom setting (such as asthma, epilepsy and anaphylaxis.) She also provided health education to the young people around looking after their own health and provided a comprehensive relationship education programme. As a school nurse, she was heavily involved in safeguarding planning and carried out health assessments for children and young people in care (‘looked after’ children.) Caroline was experienced in the delivery of parent workshops around the issues of continence, nutrition, oral hygiene and puberty. She is currently undertaking a Masters in Health and Social Care Education.