Jessica Lister
Consultant nurse- learning disabilities, North Staffordshire Combined Health Care Trust
Jessica Lister is a Consultant Nurse in Learning Disabilities and a Nurse Prescriber within a Children and Young People’s Community Learning Disability Team at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust. She is also a Trainee Approved Clinician and a Clinical Academic, having recently completed a NIHR West Midlands Research Internship. Passionate about innovation and evidence-based practice, Jessica is a co-applicant on three national research projects exploring health inequalities experienced by people with a learning disability.
She has been Chair of the UK Learning Disability Consultant Nurse Network since 2022 and is also a member of the Royal College of Psychiatry Quality Network for Learning Disabilities. Jessica contributes to national policy discussions, including a recent meeting with Baroness Rosa Monckton and Minister Stephen Kinnock to call for urgent government action to grow the RNLD workforce.