Nathalie Harris

I'm enthusiastic about music and people playing the piano and want you to get the most out of the lesson(s).

I have been a registered mental health nurse for 24 years. I'm passionate about education and supporting students and staff. I'm a qualified mentor and have done the practice supervisor and assessor training for nursing, and supported many students as well as working recently as a learning environment lead in clinical education for 4 years. I'm able to mentor and / or tutor student nurses, student nursing associates and students on access or foundation courses to nursing / health or similar, tailoring the support to what you need. This might be a one off or some ongoing support, or to get through a particular bit of the course. I'm also a qualified prescriber, so I have an interest in medication and can help you with this. I've worked across all ages and various different environments, mostly community or specialist including crossover holistic services with physical health. I have worked a lot in CAMHS with an ongoing interest in neurodevelopmental conditions and I currently do ADHD diagnostic assessments for under 18's. I'm happy to share qualifications with you if I can't get them uploaded on here. I have a diploma in mental health nursing, a post graduate diploma in mental health, mentorship training (level 7), independent prescribing training (level 6).

For piano:
We can work on learning the basics, working on a piece of music you want to learn, work towards grades or progress without taking grades. I can take returning students who want to get back to learning / progressing and / or want to learn a particular piece, or complete beginners. If you don't want to do learn things like scales, you have the option of just learning pieces of music and if you want, doing performance grades which is playing more pieces of music rather than have the other extra requirements e.g. scales, aural tests, sights reading, improvisation. We can also add in a variety of different pieces and possibly studies to improve your dexterity and technical skills to help your performance ability.

In my nursing work, I have worked with under 18's a lot as well as adults of all ages. I started playing the piano when I was under 5 years old so I'm very happy to work with younger students (from age 4). I'm happy to support nervous students, people with neurodevelopmental conditions, mental health or emotional difficulties and adapt lessons to your needs. I feel that music and playing music can be a real benefit to emotional wellbeing. I attended a music school on Saturdays up until I was 18 and was in various music groups playing different instruments and singing. I currently play the piano for a local choir in rehearsals and sing with them for the concerts.

I have grade 8 piano which I did with my A levels, and have worked towards diploma level performance exams. My piano repertoire has always been across different styles of music, and I was classically trained. I also worked up to grade 8 Clarinet, which I performed in with groups doing various styles of music, and I have done grade 5 theory and worked on grade 6 as well as having GCSE music.

I am open to doing shorter lessons if that is needed, or splitting hour long lessons between 2 people for regular lessons. Ideally it would be helpful if these people are at a similar level but we can work around that.