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Felicity Jones

Senior Lecturer in Integrated Care (Population Health), Director of Studies for Specialist Practice

Registered General Nurse, SCPHN Health Visitor, Community Nurse Prescriber, PGCert in Learning and Teaching for Professional Practice

felicity.jones@surrey.ac.uk

Academic and research departments

School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

About

Biography

I have worked full time as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey since August 2012. I have a background in adult nursing and midwifery, qualifying as a Health Visitor in 1998. My health visiting experience has included working as a health visitor (GP attached and corporate team), a liaison health visitor for a Walk-in Centre and a practice development health visitor.

As a Practice Development Facilitator, I have worked both at a local and strategic level to develop practice for health visiting and school nursing services. My role included the setting up training programmes, the development of guidelines, service audit and service innovation. This work gave me a wide breadth of experience in developing evidence based practice to support service provision for identified local health needs.

Areas of specialism

Public health nursing for 0-19 year olds

University roles and responsibilities

Director of Studies for Specialist Practice

School Lead for Recognition of Prior Learning and Recognition of Prior Credit

Affiliations and memberships

United Kingdom Standing Council on Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Education

Secretary

Teaching

I teach on Postgraduate Diploma Public Health Practice with SCPHN programmes and the Postgraduate Diploma Primary and Community Care SPQ programmes.

I am Module Lead for:

Introduction to Public Health
Early Intervention: Promoting mental health and maximising outcomes for children and families
Leading service development in public health nursing

Publications

Jones, F (2022) ‘Assessment’ in Burrows, P and Cowie, J (eds) Health Visiting: Specialist Community Public Health Nursing 3rd ed, Great Britain: Elesvier, pp. 111-130.

Wakefield, S., Jones, F., Roberts, S., Royal, C., Lane, H. and Oozageer Gunowa, N. (2022) New Face of Specialist Practice, Conference Report 5th June, Journal of Community Nursing, 36(4), pp. 24-25.

Jones, F, Whitehouse A, Dopson A, Palaghias N, Aldiss S, Gibson F, and Shawe J. (2020) Reducing unintentional injuries in under fives: Development and testing of a mobile phone app. Child Care Health and Development, 46(2), pp 203– 212.

Brown, A. M., Robinson, A., Jones, F., Smith, A, Williams, P. and Hanley, J. (2017) The effectiveness of prescription exercises for women diagnosed with postnatal depression: a systematic review’, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, 27(4), pp 488-495.

Butcher, A., Williams, P. and Jones, F. (2016) 'Is the introduction of a named midwife for teenagers associated with improved outcomes? A service development project' British Journal of Midwifery, 24(5), pp. 331-338.