Daniel Gooding

Forum Chair

RCN Children and Young People's Forum steering committee member, former West Midlands Board member, former Devon Branch Chair

Daniel is a paediatric charge nurse, who studied at London South Bank University. He started his career in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in the West Midlands. He served on the RCN West Midlands Board for two years prior to moving to Devon. Since moving to Devon, he has become a Charge Nurse in the Paediatric Emergency Department and has spent time chairing the department wide shared governance patient safety council.

He has previously been recognised for leading innovative projects to support student nurses, receiving prestigious award from the Royal College of Nursing on two occasions celebrating the amount of effort and dedication he puts into these projects. He has published articles in Nursing Standard and has co-chaired conferences for the Royal College of Nursing and the NHS.

He founded ‘The Student Nurse Project’, an online supportive community and currently has a role with the @WeCYPNurses community on Twitter. He is passionate about staff wellbeing and paediatric emergency medicine and trauma. 

Areas of special interests include: paediatric emergency medicine, paediatric trauma, patient experience, social media, pre-reg students, network building and staff wellbeing.

Katrina Cooper

Katrina is a paediatric staff nurse in an Emergency Department with special interests in palliative care, transition of adolescents to adult services and mental health.

Jamie Crew

Graduating in Nottingham in 1998, Jamie has over 20 years experience in the NHS. His varied clinical and leadership roles across acute trusts and Health Education England involved programmes of change to improve patient outcomes and new ways of working for staff, but always with a focus on compassionate leadership and safe standards of care. 

His experience in the last 6 years has been in national roles in the independent sector. He has enjoyed revising policy to ensure these meet current evidence based practice, leading quality improvement programmes and ensuring sites meeting regulatory requirements for the safe care of children and young people. 

Currently sitting as a member of the CYP acute care forum, he is keen to drive quality and add value by being a voice for children’s nursing and children and young people and to ensure we continue to deliver consistently high quality care across all providers. 

Neil Fletcher RGN, RN (Child), MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Roald Dahl Clinical Nurse Specialist for teenagers and young adults, Barts Health

Neil has had a variety of roles throughout his career, including Practice Development, Senior Nurse for children's inpatient and outpatients, Children's Site Practitioner, Senior Clinical Site Manager and Guest Lecturer. The majority of his experience has been within the field of Emergency Department Nursing.

Neil is passionate about young people health and was delighted that three members of the Barts Health Youth Forum were part of his interview panel and Neil helps to facilitate the monthly youth forum meeting.

Neil has recently undertaken the Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership and is very pleased to be supported by Barts Health NHS Trust and the Roald Dahl Marvellous Children's Charity.

Contact Neil.

Stephanie Adele Manning

Stephanie is an experienced and dedicated Teaching associate in child nursing with a 14-year clinical background in Neonatal Intensive Care, leading, facilitating and contributing, across both BSc and MSc Child Nursing programmes.

She Co-lead for the Enhanced Clinical Practice ECP Apprenticeship Programme, Neonatal and Paediatric pathway and course lead for the NURS3112 BSc year 3 Neonatal Nursing module at UoN. Extensive knowledge of Neonatal Intensive Care and passionate about transformational leadership, developing and enhancing the skills and knowledge base of pre and post graduate children’s nurses.

Sophie McKay

Sophie is a registered children's nurse working as a lecturer in clinical skills and simulation at Middlesex University and as a paediatric sister on an NHS general paediatric ward. She is a published chapter author in a textbook for nursing associates. A trained CYP critical care nurse with experience in PICU, NICU and adult ICU as redeployment during the pandemic. She has also worked as academic faculty training bed buddies for the nightingale hospital in London during the pandemic. A resuscitation council NLS instructor and EPALS/ ALS provider. Post graduate studies include, professional leadership, neuroscience and neurocritical nursing, mentorship, master in nursing and a diploma in tropical nursing. She has nursed abroad in Tanzania, Uganda, Mauritius and China. She is a proud professional nurse advocate and is passionate about clinical education, restorative supervision, coaching and student development.

Naomh Quinn

Lecturer Queens University, Belfast

Naomh is a dual qualified nurse, registering as a Learning Disability Nurse in 2014 and Children’s nurse in 2017. She has a variety of experience in various roles within children’s acute care, including PICU, ED and haematology. She has a keen interest in paediatric complex care and children’s disability. Naomh now works as a lecturer in Queens University Belfast, educating in CYP undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She still actively works in acute care in areas throughout Northern Ireland and is passionate about supporting and developing the role of CYP nurses in acute care.