Jane Graham

SAPHNA Committee member

Jane Graham R.S.C.N ( Registered sick children’s nurse) Diploma in Intensive care nursing, Bsc in child health, Msc in Advancing nursing practice

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has over 30 years of nursing background, Many of them in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in Paediatric Intensive Care, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse, “Children’s Acute Transport service” (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilise and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. Jane has been working in the independent school setting since 2009. She has been a Designated safeguarding lead (DSL) for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. Jane has been proactive and supporting other school nurses in the independent setting and worked as the nurse advisor for the Boarding schools association (BSA) for 5 years before becoming the director of Hieda and director of health and wellbeing for the BSA Group. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the Health and safety executive. She is currently the Medical Lead and a Mental health leader for the Thomas’s day schools London