Mrs Amanda Jones

Registered Nurse (Child) , Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (HV), MSc Public Health, Professional Doctorate Student, PGCtHE, Registered Nurse Teacher, Registered Nurse Prescriber, Fellow for the Higher Education Academy, Accredited Transition to Leadership

Leadership and strategic responsibilities

Amanda Jones is Principal Lead and Head of Healthcare Education at Aberystwyth University and a founding member of its Healthcare Education Centre. She leads the nursing team and holds executive responsibility for the University’s full-time and part-time BSc Nursing provision, Return to Practice programme and Level 4 Certificate in Healthcare Education.

Amanda leads the Centre’s relationships with practice learning partners and Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), which commissions nursing degree places in Wales. Her role brings together university programme delivery, practice learning and NHS workforce education priorities. She has contributed to successful tenders and bids that secured additional funding for healthcare education in mid Wales.

National and UK-wide roles

• Vice-Convenor, Council of Deans of Health Wales, appointed May 2024
• Wales Representative, Lead Nurses for Education Executive Committee, appointed April 2025
• Co-Chair, HEIW All-Wales International Student Steering Group, appointed December 2025
• Member, All-Wales Pre-registration Nursing Group and Welsh Government Bursary Group

Amanda also contributes to academic and professional governance at Aberystwyth University through its Unacceptable Academic Practice and Nursing Fitness to Practise panels.

Research and professional expertise

Amanda began her Professional Doctorate in September 2025. Her research examines how compassionate leadership shapes employee decision-making in healthcare organisations in Wales.

A Registered Nurse for more than 33 years, Amanda is also a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in health visiting, a Registered Community Nurse Prescriber and a Registered Nurse Teacher with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Her clinical experience includes health visiting within the Flying Start programme in mid Wales. She holds an MSc in Public Health and has expertise in safeguarding children and young people.

Amanda is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education through the medium of Welsh. She gained Advance HE accreditation for Transition to Leadership in July 2023.

Bilingual education and external contributions

Before joining Aberystwyth University, Amanda was a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University, where she led the implementation of the Welsh Language Standards across her college. A fluent Welsh speaker and experienced public speaker in Welsh and English, she has taught and supported undergraduate and postgraduate students in both languages, in academic and clinical settings.

Amanda has served as an External Examiner for the University of Sunderland and as an external subject specialist for NMC programme approval at other higher education institutions. In 2017, she received a staff award for Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Roles and responsibilities

• Principal Lead and Head of Healthcare Education, Aberystwyth University
• Executive responsibility for healthcare education programmes, including full-time and part-time BSc Nursing, Return to Practice and the Level 4 Certificate in Healthcare Education
• Executive responsibility for practice placements
• Leadership and management of staff within the Healthcare Education Centre
• Diversity and Inclusion Lead
• Curriculum quality monitoring and reporting to Aberystwyth University and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Oversight of compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and occupational health requirements
• Fitness to Practise Lead for NMC-approved professional programmes
• Staff mentoring and support, including mentoring colleagues undertaking the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (PGCtHE)
• Vice-Convenor, Council of Deans of Health Wales
• Co-Chair, All-Wales International Student Steering Group, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)