Meet the NES practice education team
The NHS Education for Scotland (NES) practice education team provides the strategic leadership for national practice education initiatives across health and social care. Meet the team below.
NES practice education team
Gail Nash, AHP Principal Educator
Email: gail.nash@nhs.scot
Working hours: Monday to Friday
Workstream focus: My key role is supporting the coordination of the practice education programme activity, including meeting the targets related to each of the key workstream priority areas and ensuring the practice educator network are supported and receive quality supervision in their roles as educators to enable delivery of the national programme of work.
Pete Glover, AHP Senior Educator
Email: peter.glover@nhs.scot
Working hours: Monday to Friday
National Working Group Membership: Return to Practice for Allied Health Professionals, Clinical Skills and Simulation-based Education (CS and SBE)
Workstream focus: Return to Practice, AHP Careers Fellowship Scheme, Clinical Skills and Simulation-based Education (CS and SBE)
Special interest: Collaborative Practice and Interprofessional Learning, Return to Practice
Karin Massie, AHP Senior Educator
Email: karin.massie@nhs.scot
Working hours: Monday to Thursday
National Working Group Membership: AHP PrBL Quality and Governance, AHP Practice Educator Preparation, AHP PrBL Stakeholders Group
Workstream focus: AHP Practice Based Learning
Ailidh Hunter, AHP Senior Educator
Email: ailidh.hunter@nhs.scot
Hours of work: Monday to Thursday
National Working Group Membership: AHP Practice-based Learning (PrBL) Virtual Community, Practice-based Learning Capacity and Models, Practice Educator Development, Physiotherapy Funded Places Scheme National Working Group, AHP Practice-based Learning Operational Collaboration
Workstream focus: Practice Based Learning
Joanne Gibson, AHP Senior Educator
Email: joanne.gibson4@nhs.scot
Hours of work: Monday - Friday
National Working Group Membership: AHP Careers
Workstream focus: AHP Careers and Recruitment
Special interest: AHPS working with children and young people, Healthcare Support Workers, AHP Career Pathways, Co-production and Lived Experience
Laura O'Halloran, AHP Senior Educator
Email: laura.ohalloran@nhs.scot
Working hours: Monday to Thursday
National Working Group Membership: Preceptorship National Working Group and Paramedic Practice Educator Preparation
Workstream focus: AHP Preceptorship and Paramedic Practice-based Learning
Special interest: Supporting workforce well-being and development, AHP Preceptorship, Paramedic Practice-based Learning, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Digital Capabilities.