Eileen is a Mental Health Nurse with experience across a wide range of settings including in-patients, Mother & Baby Unit and community settings. Qualifying as a health visitor in 2015, Eileen worked as a Specialist Health Visitor in Parent and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) for six years and is also a qualified Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) practitioner, Circle of Security Parenting facilitator, and one of the UK’s first ADBB-certified referents. She also worked as a Principal Investigator on the NIHR-funded Surviving Crying study. 
Eileen leads on the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health agenda for the iHV and is involved in training, projects, innovations and research that contribute to supporting the health visiting workforce in delivering high quality PIMH care for families.