Jo Painter Msc, RNMH, PG Cert, BA (Hons)
Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing
Summary
I am a senior lecturer at Hallam for half of the week - the other half of my time I continue to work as a Nurse Consultant in Adult Mental Health within a local NHS Trust. My role therefore bridges academic and clinical practice.
About
I have worked as a Mental Health Nurse for over two decades in a variety of clinical, managerial and strategic roles. I joined Hallam on a part time basis in 2017and lecture on a range of subject areas relative to mental health nursing. I am passionate about person centred care, quality of life approaches to mental well-being, and psychologically informed nursing practice. In my clinical role, I currently oversee a newly designed care pathway which aims to improve the physical health of those who have a long term mental health problem. I am a registered independent prescriber, and teach on the non-medical prescribing module. More recently I have been involved in developing content of Mental Health Advanced Clinical Practice modules, and will be leading a module on Interventions and Evaluation in the near future.
Teaching
School of Health and Social Care
College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences
I teach a range of sessions in both the Msc and Bsc Pre-registration Mental Health Nursing Courses. I also teach in to post -registration professional development modules.modules.
Publications
Journal articles
Bond, C., Painter, J., & Barnett, D. (2025). Exploring the skills prioritised in the assessment of students pursuing adult nursing, post-Covid: A qualitative analysis. Nursing Open. http://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70236
Painter, J., & Bond, C. (2023). What are nurse practice assessors’ priorities when assessing student mental health nurses? A qualitative content analysis. Nurse Education in Practice, 72. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103776
Painter, J.M. (2023). Deprescribing antipsychotics in adults with psychotic disorders – a literature review. Mental Health Practice. http://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.2023.e1670
Painter, J. (2021). Comment: “As mental health nurses we are biopsychosocial specialists.”. Nursing Times.
Dayson, C., Painter, J., & Bennett, E. (2020). Social prescribing for patients of secondary mental health services: emotional, psychological and social wellbeing outcomes. Journal of Public Mental Health: the art, science and politics of creating a mentally healthy society. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPMH-10-2019-0088/full/html
Painter, J. (n.d.). Comment: The personal professional overlap can be tough to manage. Nursing Times.
Painter, J. (n.d.). Comment: People’s stories give insights that are central to their route to recovery. Nursing Times.
Other publications
Painter, J., Jenkinson, C., & McInnes, K. (2025). Factors that influence mental health prescriber decision making in the initiation and maintenance of antipsychotic treatment: a mixed methods systematic review. PROSPERO: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD420250594695