Lindsey is a Registered Children’s Nurse, qualifying in 2003 with a Batchelors of Science degree. She has over two decades of experience across children and young people’s healthcare in acute, community and commissioning settings. Lindsey spent the first 12 years of her career working in hospitals across various specialties, including surgical and medical paediatrics, high dependency respiratory, neonatal care, and has run a number of nurse led clinics and nurse-led medical units. In 2013, Lindsey completed an MSc in Advanced Professional Practice and following that became a guest lecturer on MSc courses. She then expanded her skills into education roles, shadowing and supporting newly qualified paediatric nurses. Lindsey left her high dependency respiratory ward sister role after having her second child and moved into a children’s commissioning role within a Clinical Commissioning Group (now ICB). Lindsey then spent almost a decade in various children’s commissioning roles and also led a newly established Continuing Care team within a Commissioning Support Unit (CSU), supporting the most complex of Children and Young People (CYP) to be discharged from hospital to live safely supported at home with packages of care. Lindsey has committed her career to improving the lives of children, young people and their parents and carers, and feels very passionately about striving for parity of esteem for CYP as a population group. In 2021, Lindsey joined NHS England as part of the newly established Children and Young People (CYP) programme. As the CYP Regional Lead for the Midlands, she leads on transformation priorities, overseeing a dedicated team focused on enhancing children and young people’s services across the region. Lindsey is committed to collaborating with stakeholders to shape children's services, ensuring that the needs of children, young people, and their families remain central. In 2024 Lindsey completed the Professional Nurse Advocate course. She is particularly passionate about educating, supporting, retaining and developing other nurses within their roles by offering restorative clinical supervision. Outside of work, Lindsey enjoys travelling, walking, reading and spending time with her two children and husband.