Jayne Hannah

Biography

Jayne Hannah is a lecturer in nursing at the University of Essex. Her specialist interests include compassionate quality patient care and psychological therapies. She has been registered as a mental health nurse for over 30 years. Her clinical experience includes working at Runwell Hospital in the mid 1990’s before moving to the Southend Community Mental Health Team in 1999, where for fifteen years, she worked as a Community Mental Health Nurse and a Clinical Lead. During 2019/2020 she also worked as a prison nurse in HMP & YOI Chelmsford. She gained a PGCE in 2003 and has substantial experience in higher education. In 2016 she moved to HEE’s Quality & Commissioning team where she worked as a Clinical Learning Environment Lead and Quality Manager to implement Health Education England’s Quality Strategy and Framework. Just prior to her appointment with the University of Essex she worked pan North East London representing primary and social care as part of the North East London Apprentice Nursing Associate Programme. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Qualifications

• MSc Psychodynamics & the Psychosis Anglia Ruskin University, (2004)

• BSc (Hons) Health & Social Sciences The Open University, (1998)

• Diploma in Applied Social Sciences The Open University, (1995)

• Diploma in Mental Health Nursing Anglia Ruskin University, (1994)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Student Conduct Committee Chair, University of Essex (1/7/2024 - present)

• Senior Personal Tutor, School of Health & Social Care, University of Essex (1/1/2024 - present)

• Admissions Tutor BSc (hons) Mental Health Nursing Programme, Southend, Nursing Division, University of Essex (15/5/2023 - present)

• Investigation Officer, School of Health & Social Care, University of Essex (10/1/2022 - present)

• Cadenza Assessor, University of Essex (1/12/2021 - present)

• Academic Offences Committee Member, Faculty of Science & Health, University of Essex (4/10/2021 - present)

• Departmental Adjudicator, School of Health & Social Care, University of Essex (20/8/2021 - present)

Other academic

• External Examiner, MA Mental Health & MA Nursing, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University (1/10/2024 - 31/12/2028)

• External panel representative for NMC Programme Validation and Periodic Programme Review., School of Nursing & Advanced Practice, Liverpool John Moores University (17/1/2024 - 18/1/2024)

• External Examiner, MSc Mental Health & Adult Nursing Practice, School of Health, Science & Wellbeing, Staffordshire University (3/1/2022 - 1/1/2026)

• External Examiner, Counselling & Psychotherapy, Leeds Beckett University (21/3/2022 - 30/9/2022)