Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Meet the team – Natomie Reid-Lyon
October 26, 2020
October marks Domestic Violence awareness month which aims to unify both women and men who have unfortunately been victims of domestic violence.
Two women are killed a week by a current or former partner in England and Wales and in the year ending March 2019, approximately 1.6 million women experienced domestic abuse (Office for National Statistics, 2019).
As alarming as these stats may be, it is assumed that the figures are most likely a lot higher as many cases go unreported.
For the remainder of this month we will be sharing content throughout the communications bulletin all to help raise awareness around domestic violence.
Natomie Reid-Lyon:
Natomie Reid-Lyon works as an associate named nurse for safeguarding children and has over 17 years’ experience in a healthcare.
She started working within the children’s safeguarding team in September 2020. Her professional background is as a registered nurse (adult) and specialist public health nurse (health visitor) with over 17 years professional background across health economy includes acute paediatric and adult hospitals, community healthcare-adults, health visiting and school nursing services.
Natomie has extensive experiences in children’s safeguarding gained from working with children, young people and their families from vulnerable diverse communities having worked as health visitor in Birmingham, Sandwell and Wolverhampton. More recently she has worked at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital within the integrated safeguarding teams across two hospital sites which includes paediatric inpatient, neonatal intensive care, specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) inpatient care, maternity services, community CAMHS-Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) provider.
Our ED Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) service will support victims that come through ED. If colleagues from the wider hospital need any advice or support when dealing with a patient disclosure then please contact the safeguarding children team in the first instance.
Contact numbers:
- Safeguarding children team: 0121 507 2844
- Sarah Markland ED IDVA: 07989843233
- Rachana Chauhan: 07823336964