South West Advanced Practice Webinars: Advanced Practice in mental health across the South West
The recordings below are from our 2026 webinars about Advanced Practice in mental health across the South West. The webinars were designed for practitioners, department managers and workforce decision-makers to understand the role of Advanced Practice in mental health. The sessions focused on what an advanced practitioner might do in a service and how you might develop the strategic case for advanced practice, including clarity of scope and the enabling infrastructure needed to realise benefits & impact.
Becky Storey – Advanced Practice mental health webinar 2026
This recording features Becky, an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in liaison psychiatry in Dorset, sharing her career journey, the challenges of establishing the role, and the impact of advanced practice across clinical care, leadership, education, and research within a general hospital setting.
Francis Thompson – Advanced Practice mental health webinar 2026
This recording introduces the University of Plymouth MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Mental Health) programme, led by Francis Thompson. It outlines a framework-based approach designed to support nurses, allied health professionals, and social workers progressing into advanced practice roles.
Jenny Boobyer – Advanced Practice mental health webinar 2026
This recording features Jenny Boobyer, Head of Nursing Careers & Professional Standards from Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust. Jenny discusses developing advanced practice roles in mental health services, focusing on governance, role clarity, supervision, and standardised frameworks.
Jenny Stickney – Advanced Practice mental health webinar 2026
This video features Jenny Stickney, an advanced clinical practitioner and occupational therapist working within the Offender Personality Disorder pathway. She describes her dual role as both an ACP and consultant OT, highlighting how advanced practice enables clinical leadership, service development, education, and research alongside direct clinical work.
Tiff Earle & Sarah Oakwood – Advanced Practice mental health webinar 2026
This video features Dr Tiff Earl and Sarah Oakwood discussing their experience of advanced practice supervision in mental health services, focusing on how their supervisory relationship developed from an early, informal approach into a structured model using gap analysis across the four pillars of advanced practice.