FdSc Nursing Associate
Become a skilled nursing associate in an incredible profession, with fantastic career prospects in a range of different healthcare settings on our NMC-accredited course.
View course Carly Le Maréchal
RN (Adult), SCPHN (HV), CPNP (V100), PNA, SFHEA
Senior Lecturer
School of Health and Sport
Biography
Carly (she/her) is a senior lecturer in nursing who teaches across the pre and post registration nursing and health courses here at Solent. She is dual registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Registered Nurse (Adult), Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) and is a Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber (CPNP/V100). Carly is an experienced lecturer and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), in 2026 she was shortlisted as a finalist at the Student Nursing Times Awards in the category University Educator of the Year.
Carly’s clinical career spans roles in acute adult care, health visiting, and safeguarding, where she worked in a challenging interagency safeguarding environment. You can hear Carly talk about safeguarding and her experiences as a safeguarding nurse on the 2025 BJN podcast episode Safeguarding: How can nurses help protect patients in the digital age? In the NHS Carly led organisation wide quality improvement initiatives in restorative safeguarding supervision and staff wellbeing, and she is a qualified Professional Nurse Advocate.
Carly uses her practical knowledge of change management in her everyday teaching and in 2026 was a guest along with four Solent student nursing associates on the Just a Sharp Scratch podcast episode, Shaping the future of Nursing Associates where the students discuss the impact of their service improvement projects on their patients and workplaces, and their career journeys so far.
Carly is the creator of Solent’s unique public health simulated practice placement, an experience for pre-registration nursing students that gets them to explore Southampton through a public health lens allowing them to apply theory to practice through simulation. Public health simulated practice placement was shortlisted as a finalist for Placement of the Year: Community at the 2026 Student Nursing Times Awards.
Carly’s research interests include the impact of simulated practice in bridging the theory-practice gap and the scope of practice of nursing associates.
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Further information
Carly has over 15 years’ experience as a specialist community public health nurse (health visitor), almost a decade of which was spent working in safeguarding. Carly has a track record of successfully embedding organisation wide change around mandatory educational and staff support. Earlier in her career Carly worked as an adult nurse with experiences in cardiac high dependency and emergency departments.
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