Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt
Background and experience
Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt is currently the Pro-Vice Chancellor at Coventry University, Programme Director for the Nursing Now Nightingale Challenge and Non-executive Director, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.
In October 2019, Lisa took up the role of Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University and was confirmed in the permanent post of Pro-Vice Chancellor in March 2020. Over the past six months Lisa has led the development of a university-wide health and well-being strategy, a key priority for the University.
In March 2020, Lisa was appointed as a non-executive director at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. The Trust provides a wide range of mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages in Coventry and Warwickshire; and a wide range of community physical health services for people in Coventry.
Lisa is leading the Nightingale Challenge, a Nursing Now campaign, run in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Council of Nurses. The ambition is to empower nurses and midwives to take their place at the heart of tackling 21st century global health challenges. The Challenge is creating opportunities for thousands of young nurses and midwives from across the world to undertake leadership development programmes and ensure nurse and midwife leaders have an influential voice in health care policy making.
Lisa is also an Advisor at a WHO Collaborating Centre.
Previous career
Lisa has worked in healthcare in both the private and public spheres and in higher education for over 20 years. She joined Health Education England in 2012 as a national director leading a transformation in nurse and midwifery education across the country and introducing the Nursing Associate into the English health system, the first new nurse role for a generation. Previously she held senior strategic posts in the NHS and in higher education.
Health Education England 2012-2019
As Chief Nurse at the national body responsible for training and developing the NHS workforce in England, Lisa led on building capacity and capability in the nursing and midwifery workforce, within the multi-professional education and training agenda. Lisa was also Senior Responsible Officer for HEE's national mental health and learning disability and autism programmes and held Board-level responsibility for the organisation’s equality, diversity and inclusion strategy.
Her key achievements include delivering the transformation of nursing education and training in England (Raising the Bar); the introduction of the first new nursing role for a generation - the Nursing Associate; development and piloting of pre-degree care experience for aspirant nurses; securing funding to boost the training and recruitment of learning disability nurses and leading the ‘Return to Practice’ initiative.
In 2017, in addition to her Chief Nurse role, Lisa became Interim Regional Director for London and the South East, where she was responsible for approximately £1 billion of investment in education, training and workforce development across London. Her role included supporting five Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in the capital.
Other international work has included work in West Bengal developing a global learner programme and a strategic leadership programme at Yale.