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Victoria has been a paediatric nurse for 19 years, and has worked in the field of neurodevelopmental conditions for five years.
Her current role is clinical lead for specialist nursing covering 3 local authorities. Victoria leads an autism assessment nursing team who are part of a wider autism assessment service. She also leads a specialist neurodevelopmental team who are part of the community paediatric service.
Victoria participates in the clinical triage, assessment and diagnosis of ADHD and ASD, and provides ongoing medication management of ADHD as a non-medical prescriber.

Kirk is a Learning Disability Nurse, who qualified in 1995. He works mainly with children and has a particular interest in autism, as he and his two children are diagnosed autistic. More recently Kirk became involved in Swindon Community CAMHS neurodevelopmental pathway and has developed a post-diagnosis psychoeducation session based on his own research, information from autistic advocates and feedback from the children and families he works with. Like the majority of autistic adults, he prefers identity-first language, but doesn’t insist on it.

Joanna became registered in adult general nursing in 1986 after studying at The Middlesex Hospital, in London. She then completed her paediatric nurse training, studying at Westminster Children's Hospital, London, before moving to Herefordshire.

After working on several paediatric in-patient units, she left her role as senior staff nurse, to work in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for 10 years as the prescribing ADHD nurse specialist. This is where Joanna’s interest in sleep began.

In 2017, Joanna left the NHS to complete further training in sleep and the treatment of sleep disorders at Oxford university, Southampton university and Northumbria University, before setting up an independent sleep health service, WyeSleep, in Hereford in 2019.

Today Joanna supports clients with insomnia, delivering sleep workshops to a range of businesses and charities, whilst working to spread the message of the importance of sleep for physical and mental health.
She is one of the co-founders of British Sleep Pharmacy Services (BSPSS), a charity aimed at supporting community pharmacists to improve access to sleep services to the public.

Holly has worked within the Paediatric Neuro-disability Service at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since August 2021 as an ADHD Specialist Nurse. This was a completely new role within the department, and Holly has worked closely with the Community Paediatricians to develop the ADHD service further. The role as ADHD Nurse Specialist in Gloucestershire has been varied but over the past 2 years some of Holly's role has included managing the waiting list for an ADHD assessment in Gloucestershire for children between the ages of 6 and 11 years, trialling new pathways which have included implementing Qb testing and running nurse led clinics to review patients who are on medication for their ADHD.

Holly's next goal is to complete the non-medical prescribing course which will enable her to continue to develop her nurse led clinics further.

Before this role, Holly was a Paediatric Sister on the inpatient unit at Gloucester Royal Hospital. She qualified as a Paediatric Nurse in 2009.

Mary Trotman is a Children’s Nurse from Somerset. Her current role is Operational Manager for the Children and Young Persons (CYP) Neurodevelopmental Partnership. The Children and Young People’s Neurodevelopmental Partnership (CYPNP) has been commissioned to offer neurodevelopmental assessments to children and young people aged 4-17 living in the Somerset area, as well as post diagnostic support for those diagnosed with ADHD. Mary qualified as a Children’s Nurse in 2001 and has worked for both NHS and private industry over the last 21 years. During her time working in the NHS, she has worked with CYP who have complex or palliative care needs. In the private sector Mary had Occupational Health, Employee Assistance and Wellbeing roles that supported companies in looking after their workforce.