Janette Dunkerley appointed as Lead Nurse for Research and Innovation

Congratulations to Janette Dunkerley who has been appointed as Lead Nurse for the Research and Innovation (R&I)  Division at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT).

Since June 2016, Janette has been the Acting Lead Nurse for R&I and has now been successfully appointed to the post, starting January 2017. The Lead Nurse for R&I provides strategic, professional, clinical and educational leadership to clinical research nurses across CMFT.

As a member of the senior management team, Janette will also contribute to the delivery of the Trust’s research agenda aimed at promoting the clinical programmes of research and improving the quality, relevance and volume of research.

Janette gained her Bachelor of Nursing degree in 1994 and started her nursing in medical and vascular surgery wards at CMFT. In 1997 she took up a post as vascular nurse specialist at University Hospital South Manchester, which involved setting up and running a nurse led clinic. It was during this post that Janette first became interested in research, as she searched for the evidence behind clinical practice.

In 2011 she completed a Master in Clinical Research at The University of Manchester and became the Clinical Research Nurse Manager at CMFT reporting to and supporting the Lead Nurse for R&I in an operationally managerial role.

Janette commented on her appointment:

After 18 years of working as a clinical research nurse I am exceptionally delighted to have the privilege to be the Lead Nurse for R&I, in a division and Trust that I am very proud to work in. I look forward to continuing to work with you all and taking clinical research across nursing and midwifery to the next level at CMFT.