Maxine Cromar-Hayes

I am a senior mental health nursing lecturer and a registered mental health nurse.

This role sees me teaching and assessing students on both the undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes. As part of this, I have an academic mentor and academic assessor role, which sees me supporting students both on their theory and clinical practice journeys.

I am the level 6 lead for the BSc Nursing programme, which sees me coordinating and steering all the module teams at level 6, to ensure there is parity across the fields of nursing as well as supporting the filed specific content.

I worked in varying areas within mental health, but the most prominent being High Secure Services, where I worked for 13 years on a mental illness high dependency admission ward and a year on a high dependency personality disorder admission ward. 

I keep clinically relevant by working with and having good connections with users of services and peer workers.