Carly Le Marechal
BSc (Hons), PGDip RN (Adult), SCPHN (HV), V100, MSc (Ment), PNA, PGCTLHE, FHEA
Lecturer
School of Health and Sport
Biography
Carly (she/her) is a nurse lecturer and specialist community public health nurse (health visitor) with extensive experience across clinical practice, safeguarding, and higher education. Carly began her career as an adult nurse, working in acute and critical care before completing further training in health visiting. She is dual registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as an adult nurse and specialist community public health nurse and holds an MSc in Public Health Practice, where her dissertation explored parental decision-making on infant sleep location.
Carly’s clinical career spans over a decade, including roles as a health visitor and specialist safeguarding nurse, where she also undertook responsibilities as a child death nurse. Her expertise in safeguarding led to a trust-wide quality improvement project on restorative safeguarding supervision and the development of staff wellbeing initiatives. She is a qualified professional nurse advocate (PNA) and has delivered restorative supervision across multidisciplinary teams.
In her academic role at Solent University, Carly leads modules in public health, anatomy and physiology, and assistant practitioner (health) education. She is actively engaged in research and curriculum innovation, with projects focusing on simulated learning in public health practice and widening participation in nursing careers. Her action research on inclusivity and aspiration in nursing education reflects her commitment to supporting diverse student cohorts and promoting professional development.
Carly is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and serves as an external examiner for the University of Bedfordshire. She has presented at national conferences and received recognition for excellence in teaching and educational innovation. Her research interests include improving support for health professionals following child deaths and enhancing career aspirations among nursing and healthcare students.
Further information
Carly has 15 years’ experience as a specialist community public health nurse (health visitor), almost a decade of which was spent working in safeguarding. Prior to that she worked as an adult nurse with experience in cardiac high dependency and emergency departments.
Taught courses
FdSc Health and Social Care (Health Care Assistant Practitioner)
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