10 minutes with Kelly Garside, Team Manager, Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Oxford Health Foundation Trust

Abstract

Kelly Garside is a registered mental health nurse who graduated with Distinction in a Higher Diploma in Mental Health Nursing in 1997 and obtained her BSc (Hons) in 1998, both at Buckinghamshire University (Brunel). She has worked for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust for 22 years. Since 1998, she has had leadership roles in acute, inpatient and community settings, as a charge nurse, community psychiatric nurse and deputy team manager. She is currently Team Manager for a Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Oxfordshire.