Vicky qualified as a Learning Disabilities Nurse in 1996. She has worked across a wide range of services in both the NHS and the independent health and social care sectors. She is a qualified Positive Behaviour Support coach and a self-harm and suicide assessment trainer. Vicky has recently taken up post with the Royal College of Nursing as Lead Nurse for the independent health and social care sector for the West Midlands region, having previously worked at Coventry University as Assistant Professor for twelve and a half years and Course Director for Learning Disability Nursing. For nine years prior to this she worked as a forensic community charge nurse, and a mental impairment community nurse. Vicky has a special interest in the support of people with learning disabilities and autism and with the criminal justice system.