Mrs Sarah Tait

Mrs Sarah Tait

Senior Lecturer, Nursing

Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 602059

Email address

Welsh language proficiency

Basic Welsh Speaker
Office - 208
First Floor
Glyndwr Building
Singleton Campus

About

Sarah has been a Mental Health Nurse Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Care since 2013. She began her nursing career as an Auxiliary nurse in 1991, before commencing nurse training in 1992. Sarah qualified as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) in 1995 and qualified as a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RNMH) in 2001. More recently, in 2014, Sarah became recognised as a Registered Nurse Teacher (RNT) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), following a Post Graduate Certificate (PG Cert) in Education for Health Professionals. Sarah pursued the PG Cert, completing a MA in Education for Health Professionals in 2016. As a Fellow of the HEA, Sarah is now also an assessor of those applying for fellowship.

Sarah predominantly teaches within the pre-registration nursing curriculum and is an academic mentor to pre-registration nursing students on a variety of full-time and part-time programmes. She is module lead for the Acute Care in mental health module that runs during the second year of the nursing curriculum and field lead for Managing Complex Care in Rapidly Changing Situations (Mental Health) that runs during the third year of the nursing curriculum. Within the role of nurse lecturer, Sarah also covers a variety of clinical areas in the Hywel Dda Health Board and carries out educational audits and visits students whilst they are out on placement. 

In addition to this, Sarah is the Mental health field lead for the BSC Mental Health Nursing Programme and she is module lead for post graduate module, Advanced Practice and Education, a module that is part of the MSc in Advanced Practice. Sarah also delivers specialised mental health teaching, predominantly in line with her interest in self harm and suicidal behaviours, for a number of various programmes and she has been delivering clinical supervision training workshops to Local Health Board staff.

Prior to beginning a career in nurse education, Sarah specialised in Primary Mental Health, within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Consequently, Sarah takes a lead in teaching about Child and Adolescent Mental Health issues and leads a CAMHS workshop for Pre-registration nurses bi-annually.

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Mental health Nursing

Self harm and Suicide

Child and Adolescent mental health

Educational Theories

Assessment and Feedback

Award Highlights Collaborations