Roz Nunn

LMNS Public Health Practitioner

Having initially gained qualification as a Registered General Nurse consolidated in practice in elderly care, Ros completed dual registration as a Midwife and has worked across all areas in acute and community maternity services. She progressed to specialise in infant feeding within an NHS Trust leading on and achieving full UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation, providing specialist clinical support for maternity, neonatal and paediatrics services, delivering workforce training including lecturing on the Midwifery and Specialist Public Health Nursing and Health Visiting Programmes and supporting best practice and quality assurance within her sphere of work. She went on to work within Surestart Childrens Centres managing an infant feeding team and peer support programme whilst leading again on UNICEF BFI accreditation within health visiting and community settings, before returning to midwifery from where she has been seconded for almost 4 years to a NENC public health prevention in maternity role.

Within her current role, she has worked extensively from a whole-system approach at strategic level with stakeholders across multi-disciplinary organisations to oversee implementation and embedding of the North East and North Cumbria Infant Feeding Strategy, leading a nationally recognised model of best practice and excellence, and guest lecturing to other LMNS’s, national and regional teams and OHID. She continues to provide clinical expertise across the NENC and is currently the NENC regional lead for the National Infant Feeding Network and a member of UNICEF BFI Designation Committee.

Her portfolio as a public health practitioner includes project work from a health inequalities, population health and prevention approach, developing and supporting implementation of best practice standards and training programmes including maternal healthy weight, immunisation (including the Covid 19 response), safe sleep and migrant health whilst supporting the wider public health agenda in maternity, early years, and the Best Start in Life programme. She has also contributed in collaboration on several research projects. Currently she is supporting delivery of the NENC LMNS infant feeding, healthy weight and pregnancy anticipatory care workstreams as part of the public health and equity and equality workstream.

If you would like more information, please contact Roz at: [email protected]