Leena Vinod

Leena is an experienced educator and clinical practitioner with 30 years in nursing. Passionate about safety, quality, and compassionate care, she currently serves as Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University. Previously, Leena led the MSc Integrated Nurse Paramedic course and is currently the Employability Lead for Nursing and Midwifery in the Faculty, Social Care and Medicine. A graduate of PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, she began her career in Emergency Medicine and Coronary Care before migrating to the UK in 2002, where she transformed care delivery as a Care Home Manager in Sussex.

After gaining substantial experience in the NHS, she transitioned to education and has significantly influenced high-quality nurse education. Leena is an External Assessor and Examiner at Anglia Ruskin University for their CPD courses. She is the first Chair of the Alliance of Senior Kerala Nurses (ASKeN) and played an instrumental role to establish the organisation at national and strategic level in a volunteering capacity and led many collaborative outputs such as high quality leadership development conferences for aspiring and established leaders.

Leena continues to mentor and nurture leaders working across many sectors. Leena is recipient of several national awards, including the INMA Leader of the Year in 2024 endorsed by FNF and NHSE. Leena is a key member of the Kerala Academic group who have created a Toolkit to support the transition of internationally educated nursing students to the UK Higher Education sector. Currently, she is pursuing the prestigious FNF Strategic Leadership Scholarship along with Windsor Leadership programme.