Jennifer holds a strategic role as Head of Nursing and is the Trust lead for Professional Nurse Advocates. She sits on the Regional PNA faculty as a subject matter expert. Jennifer Pearson has a background in paediatric and adult cardiothoracic intensive care and has held significant senior leadership positions throughout her 30-year career in the health service and in Australia. She is committed to and competent in exceeding patient and staff experience and previously worked a CQC advisor. Jennifer is the Midlands Regional Lead for the Chief Nursing Officer Chief Midwifery Officer (England) Strategic Nursing Advisory BME Group advocating for staff contributing to national policy and advisor to the Chief Nurse (England). The group won the HSJ award for staff well-being and finalists in Nov 22 for race equality. In that capacity she co-designed the nationally acclaimed positive action Developing Aspirant Leaders programme (DAL) now in its third year.

She contributed to the international wound care and skin tone guide published an editorial about skin tone bias in Wounds UK in 2022.

She is the winner of the RCN Making a Difference Award 2021 for her work involving vaccine uptake in BAME staff and communities following nomination by NHSE/I Midlands and voted BAME Nurse of the Year 2022 in the National Diversity Awards. She is a judge for the Kindness Awards for the second year, a UK Primary School initiative 2025. She was recognised as a local hero by the Association of Jamaican Nationals and awarded the Mary Seacole 75th NHS Windrush Award in Sept 2023 which was sponsored by Birmingham City University for the tireless work she led on to improve the knowledge of communities about the NHS staff about Vaccination. She was invited to 10 Downing St by his Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer to the launch of the Windrush Commissioner in June 2025.

She was named in the list of top 50 most influential health care leader in the HSJ bubbling under category of EDI leaders in 2023 . She aspires to be a Deputy Chief Nurse ,having completed the Aspiring Deputy Director of Nursing Program at Hertfordshire University and is delighted to be a current Florence Nightingale Scholar on the Established Leaders Program.