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Veronique Oldfield

Deputy Head

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society

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  • Deputy Head
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society
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BIOGRAPHY

Vez is the Deputy Head of Division of Nursing and Healthcare, UCC campus, within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Vez's role includes actively contributing to the strategic and operational management of the division, including development of the divisional academic portfolio; ensuring all programmes within the division comply with the external professional regulatory body requirements and contributing to the setting of quality assurance, education standards and curriculum development. Vez is also an external examiner for the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) programme and Master of Science- Public Health, at University of Northampton, where she is responsible for internal monitoring of summative assessments, which contributes to programme quality assurance procedures. Vez has recently undertaken the role of Quality Assurance Visitor for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), where she is responsible for reviewing new or modified pre-registration nursing and SCPHN programmes within Approved Education Institutes (AEI) to ensure that they comply with the NMC standards, and confirming approval for validation within the AEI.

UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER APPOINTMENTS

  • Senior Lecturer
    University of Chester, Public Health and Wellbeing, Chester, United Kingdom25 Jun 2018
  • Senior University Teaching Fellow
    University of Chester, Centre for Academic Innovation and Development, Chester, United Kingdom2 Jan 2022 - 31 Jul 2022
  • Deputy Director of Pre-registration Nursing
    University of Chester, Pre-registration Nursing, Chester, United Kingdom11 Nov 2022 - 31 Jan 2024
  • Deputy Head of Division of Nursing and Healthcare, UCC
    University of Chester, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Chester, United Kingdom1 Feb 2024

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Lecturer
    Edge Hill University, School of Nursing, Ormskirk, United Kingdom7 Aug 2016 - 24 Jun 2018

DEGREES

  • BN Hons
    University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom25 Sep 2004 - 25 Sep 2007
  • MSc
    University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom25 Sep 2012 - 15 Mar 2016
  • PGDip- SCPHN (HV)
    University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom25 Sep 2012 - 25 Sep 2013
  • PGCTHE
    Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom17 Jan 2017 - 17 Mar 2018

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA)
    University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom31 Jul 2022

SCHOOL

  • School of Nursing and Midwifery