About

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Professional Practice. I work across the Mental Health Nursing programmes, including the BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing and the MSc Mental Health Nursing. I am passionate about supporting students in their learning to become caring and compassionate mental health practitioners. I also teach across other Health and Social Care programmes to raise awareness of mental health.

I am a trained cognitive behavioral psychotherapist and have experience of using this approach to help people with anxiety, depression, anger difficulties, post traumatic stress disorder, personality disorder and substance misuse.

I also have experience of being an external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes at other UK Universities, and I am a reviewer for the National Institute for Health Research Dissemination Centre.

Teaching responsibilities

• BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing
• MSc Mental Health Nursing

Professional interests

• Mental health recovery
• Student wellbeing
• Service user involvement
• Clinical supervision
• Psychosocial interventions

Research interests

• Nurse education
• Clinical supervision
• Oncology and mental health

Membership of professional bodies

• Nursing and Midwifery Council – Registered Mental Health Nurse and Nurse Teacher
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Open
• PG Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy
• PG Cert in Interprofessional Learning, Mentoring & Assessing
• PG Cert in Health Promotion, Open University
• MA Community Mental Health
• Registered Mental Health Nurse

Recent conferences

• Beddingham E, Sparkes N, Brundrett H (2017) Development of an ePortfolio for Pre-registration student nurses. Oral Poster Preentation. NET Conference. Cambridge. (Voted Best Poster Award)
• Collins G, Brundrett H (2017) Snap Skills: Developing the mental health skills of Adult Field nurses as part of a pre-registration nursing programme. Oral Poster Presentation. NET Conference. Cambridge.
• Brundrett H, Croft H (2016) Clnical supervision in undergraduate nursing. Developing student nurses' resilience to work in a culture of compassionate care. Oral Poster Presentation. NET Conference. Cambridge.

Experience in industry

• Staff Nurse (Acute Mental Health Admissions Ward)
• Deputy Ward Manager (Drug and Alccohol Inpatient/Community Service)
• Staff Nurse (Mediium Secure Forensic Assessment Ward)
• Staff Nurse (Assertive Outreach Coomunity Team)
• Lecturer (Intermediate Care Trainig & Development Project)
• Lecturer Practitioner

Recent publications

• Whiffin CJ, Clarke H, Brundrett H, Baker D, Whitehad B (2017) Collaborative development of an accelerated graduate entry nursing programme outside of tradtional funding mechanims. Nurse Education Practice. 2017 Sep 21.
• Sherratt, L, Whitehead, B, Young, A, Collins, G and Brundrett, H (2013) Using more healthcare areas for placements. Nursing Times: 109:25, 18-21