Jennifer Caguioa has over three decades of nursing experience working in various roles within the NHS. She started as an adaptation nurse from the Philippines in 1999 at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. She has worked in the National Health Service for the last 25 years within various specialities including Haematology, Oncology, Research, Practice Development and for more than a decade as Lead Nurse for Vascular Access at King’s College Hospital NHS FT. She is passionate about staff support especially for newly arrived overseas nurses. During the pandemic, this has led to a national role within NHS England. As the first Filipino Chief Nursing Officer’s BAME Nurse Advisor, she worked on the COVID19 Action plan to address its disproportionate impact on our ethnic minority workforce in the UK. With a special interest in leadership development and advocacy, she was seconded as Head of Global Programmes at Florence Nightingale Foundation and led in the very first delivery of the FNF online leadership development programme which was bespoke for internationally educated nurses and midwives and their first Global scholarship programme.
As International Recruitment and Ethnic Minorities Nurse Advisor at NHSEngland, she led nationally on work related to improving the outcomes and experiences of our international workforce by scoping and strengthening international nursing and midwifery associations (INMAs) and their leaders across England, enhancing their collective voice and influence to impact positive change on the system. She has worked with the National Guardian on raising the profile of our overseas workforce and their challenges on speaking up in their last two national Freedom To Speak Up conferences . She has advisory roles on various Charities such as the Cavell and Mary Seacole Trust and vice chair / founder of Filipino Senior Nurses Alliance, UK. She recently won the London council seat in November 2024 at Royal College of Nursing and serves as Board Member and Governor to the college. She is currently working as a Senior Clinical Manager at NHS England with a focus on implementing the NHS Long term workforce plan, specifically on attraction and retention of our workforce.
Because of the impact of her advocacy and work, she was included on the New Year’s Honors list for 2025 where she will be receiving an award from King Charles as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Nursing.
