Meet the Team
Fiona Le Ber - Joint Forum Chair
Clinical Nurse Specialist Community Bladder & Bowel. Queens Nurse. 快猫视频 Bladder & Bowel Forum Steering Committee Chair
Fiona qualified as a RGN in 1992 after training in Southampton and Jersey schools of nursing, Fiona first worked on a busy medical/ medical assessment unit before moving to the endoscopy unit. After 17 years of hospital nursing she moved to the community to work as a community staff nurse for a local charity, where she managed a caseload of patients including care in 5 residential homes. Fiona has been the Community Continence and Stoma Care CNS for 8 years. The role has developed at an amazing rate.
Fiona, divides her time between patient visits, teaching Community Nurses and Carers, developing guidelines and working with commissioners to provide a sustainable service. Fiona also works closely with the hospital CNS’s in Urology, Stoma Care and Enteral feeding. She became a Queen’s Nurse in 2012 and then went on to be project lead for a Queen’s Nursing Institute and Burdett Trust for Nursing Fund for Innovation and Leadership funded project.
Fiona organised a successful “A Fresh Approach to Continence” Conference in 2019 which was attended by 90 delegates and aimed to enable Health Care Professionals to identify continence issues and support them to perform early patient centred and cost effective continence care.
Fiona has written several articles for the British Journal of Nursing on Stoma Care and has presented at 2021 快猫视频 congress fringe event and a BJN Stoma Care webinar.
Fiona, joined the forum steering committee in 2020 where she was part of the working party that updated the 快猫视频i e-Continence Learning Resource. She became Chair of the steering committee in 2022 and is keen to bring continence to the forefront of patient care.
Janice Reid
Deputy Chair
BSc(Hons) Advanced Nursing Practice, RN, DN, ANP, NMP, PG Dip, PG CHERP, FHEA, Lecturer, School of Nursing and Paramedic Science, Ulster University
Janice has worked in Community continence services since 2003 as a Continence Nurse Specialist progressing to Clinical lead and Service manager. She is a past Chair of Association for Continence Advice. Janice was a finalist in the 快猫视频 (NI) Nurse of the Year awards 2005 for her work on developing the first community based prostate assessment clinic in Northern Ireland. She won an HSC Quality award for this work in 2007.
Janice has an interest in male lower urinary tract symptoms as well as management of neurogenic bladder and bowel dysfunction. During her time as Clinical lead for Continence Services, she led a multidisciplinary working group in the development and implementation of care pathways for women with bladder and pelvic floor dysfunction.
Throughout her career Janice has been involved in providing education to learners and on leaving the NHS secured a position as a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Paramedic Science, Ulster University. Along with delivery of pre-and post-registration teaching, Janice now co-ordinates the ongoing development and delivery of post graduate modules on bladder and bowel dysfunction.
Janice is passionate about ensuring person centred care for individuals with bladder and bowel dysfunction and promotes the drive for excellence and evidence based practice. She is delighted to have been appointed to the role of Vice Chair of the Bladder and Bowel Forum and is very much looking forward to continuing to contribute to the work going forwards.