Linda Flack

Senior Lecturer

Linda is a registered Adult Nurse and Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and has clinical experience within the 0-19 team in the community. Linda joined ARU in April 2021 as Lecturer Practitioner and module lead for the Professional Advocate Preparation Module.

Faculty:
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care
School:
School of Midwifery and Community Health
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Nursing and midwifery
Research Supervision:
Yes
Background

A senior lecturer who has been at ARU since 2021, Linda had been an Associate Teacher with ARU, assisting with delivering sessions on two modules on the SCPHN course. As a practitioner Linda was able to offer the students a flavour of the workplace and how they can link theory to practice. Linda has completed her PG Cert and MSc in Medical and Healthcare Education and is a Fellow with the HEA.

Over the last 15 years, Linda has  worked as a School Nurse, Clinical Practice Teacher, and 5-19 Lead within the Healthy Child Programme. She supported pre-registered adult and child students/SCPHN students in the community as a community practice teacher. As part of a team, Linda delivered various teaching sessions in-house to support the student learning. Previously Linda worked in Accident and Emergency for many years, worked as a Practice Nurse, Teaching Assistant, School Governor, and a School Nurse based in a school and in the community.

Linda has a variety of knowledge gained from previous posts, and has a particular interest in leadership, safeguarding, and young people's health.

Research interests
  • Leadership
  • Safeguarding
  • Young persons' health
Teaching
  • Previous Module Lead for the ten-week CPD module for Professional Advocacy Preparation 
  • Current Module Lead for module 3 of the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) course
  • Tutor for Applied Leadership and Management module 
  • Oversees the distance learning version of the Applied Leadership and Management module
     
Qualifications
  • PG Cert Medical and Healthcare Education
  • SCPHN BSc Hons
  • Adult Registered General Nurse
  • Adult State Enrolled Nurse
Selected recent publications

Flack, L. and Abdulmohdi, N. (2023) 'Delivering professional nurse advocate preparation module: the Professional Nurse Advocate role, benefits and challenges', Nursing Times [online], 119, pp. 11.