Dr Janine Archer (PhD, MRes, BSc(Hons)) - personal details

Janine is a Mental Health Nurse with additional training in CBT and extensive experience in Primary Mental Health Care service delivery, development and research. She worked as a therapist and manager in primary care since 1997 and was involved in pioneering one of the first PCT mental health services in the North West. From 2002-2005 she worked as Primary Care Facilitator for the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) and was instrumental in the successful implementation of Primary Care Graduate Mental Health Workers (PCGMHWs) in the North-West region. She also managed an innovative Primary Care Mental Health Collaborative across Cumbria and Lancashire SHA which focused on embedding the PCGMHWs into a stepped primary care system. She is the author of the nationally acclaimed DH/NIMHE commissioning guide for primary care which has been welcomed by PCTs and mental health Trusts across the UK. She recently completed her PhD which was a study of 'Collaborative care for depression in primary care'. She has provided training, guidance and supervision for low-intensity workers delivering case management in primary care and has links with collaborative care experts in the US as well as being well connected in the local and national primary care arena. She has also been engaged in a wide range of research into the effectiveness of self-help interventions and has published widely in this field. Janine contributes to delivering the MSc/PgD/PgC Primary Mental health Care programme at the University and is also a Consultant trainer for a National skills-based suicide prevention programme (STORM).

BABCP

• PhD 2009 "Predictors of Outcome of Collaborative Care for Depression in Primary Care"
  (School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manchester)
• MRes Health and Community Research (University of Manchester)
• BSc (Hons) Psychotherapeutic Interventions (University of Salford)
• Registered Nurse (Mental Health) (University of Salford)

Janine is responsible for teaching on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study. Her main teaching role is to support the Primary Care Pathway of the MSc in Advanced Practice Interventions for Mental Health (APIMH) and is unit lead/provides significant input to the following units: (Year 1) Core Knowledge and Skills; Culture and Processes; Evidence-based Psychological Interventions and Social Inclusion and Community Engagement (Year 2) Developing Practice Managing Change; Critical Appraisal and Evidence Synthesis (Year 3) Dissertation supervision. Janine also provides significant input into the Common Mental Health Problems unit on the BNurs. 

Janine is a Consultant for the Skills-based Training On Risk Management (STORM) package which involves teaching the programme to health care staff from Trusts across Great Britain and Southern Ireland who then disseminate the training across their employing Trust.

Janine is responsible for teaching on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study. Her main teaching role is to support the Primary Care Pathway of the MSc in Advanced Practice Interventions for Mental Health (APIMH) and is unit lead/provides significant input to the following units: (Year 1) Core Knowledge and Skills; Culture and Processes; Evidence-based Psychological Interventions and Social Inclusion and Community Engagement (Year 2) Developing Practice Managing Change; Critical Appraisal and Evidence Synthesis (Year 3) Dissertation supervision. Janine also provides significant input into the Common Mental Health Problems unit on the BNurs.

Janine is a Consultant for the Skills-based Training On Risk Management (STORM) package which involves teaching the programme to health care staff from Trusts across Great Britain and Southern Ireland who then disseminate the training across their employing Trust.