Lloyd Bastiman

Lloyd Bastiman is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health within the School of Health and Life Sciences at Teesside University. He also is Apprenticeship Deputy Lead for RNDA Provision. 

He has accrued substantial clinical experience across a wide range of settings, including Primary Care Mental Health within Primary Care Networks (PCNs), forensic mental health services, learning disability services, long-stay rehabilitation, and the criminal justice system. Lloyd is also an accredited Independent and Supplementary Prescriber. In addition, he has practised within several specialist medical wards in the NHS, including oncology, rheumatology, and endoscopy, and has contributed to the delivery of the NHS 111 service in Southwest London.

Lloyd currently contributes to the delivery of a number of pre-registration modules and serves as module leader for both Service Improvement and Professionalism, Relationships and Communication. He also holds the roles of Course Leader, Deputy Aprentcieship Lead (RNDA) and Mental Health Lead for Cohort 2401.

Prior to entering academia, Lloyd served as a Police Officer within the District Incident Resolution Team (IRT). This role enabled him to integrate his clinical and policing expertise to support the development of interprofessional practice across partner agencies. During his service, he also supported the police service in frontline police negotiation  during high-risk mental health crisis incidents and welfare-related concerns.

Lloyd’s research interests centre on the provision of mental health support for individuals following release from police custody, as well as the enhancement of interprofessional working at a local level. His doctoral research examines how academics delivering pre-registration health programmes within post-1992 higher education institutions employ Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) to facilitate inclusive pedagogical practice.