Stacey Van Beck

Professional Profile

Stacey Hazel Van Beck is a highly experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse, Independent Non-Medical Prescriber and trained Nurse Expert Witness with over 20 years’ experience. She currently holds a senior Band 7 Team Lead position within Urgent and Unscheduled Mental Health Services, providing clinical and operational leadership in the assessment and management of complex and high-risk mental health presentations.

Stacey has successfully completed the Apex Experts Nurse Expert Witness Training Programme, providing dedicated training in the role and responsibilities of the nurse expert witness and the preparation of medico-legal evidence. Her clinical expertise encompasses urgent and unscheduled mental health care, forensic mental health, criminal justice services, primary care, substance misuse, risk assessment, safeguarding, mental capacity and statutory mental health legislation. She has extensive experience undertaking complex assessments and providing defensible professional opinion in situations involving significant clinical risk, vulnerability, substance misuse, self-harm, suicide risk and severe mental illness.

Stacey has substantial experience at the interface between mental health and the criminal justice system, including liaising with Police Scotland, the Scottish Prison Service, Procurator Fiscal and other statutory agencies, preparing court reports and professional statements, undertaking structured risk assessments and providing evidence in court when required. Her forensic experience includes the use of HCR-20 structured professional judgement, alongside SARA, SAM and SA07 risk assessment approaches.

In her current Band 7 role, Stacey undertakes complex crisis assessments involving suicide risk, severe mental illness, intoxication, safeguarding and acute vulnerability. She applies advanced clinical decision-making to risk, capacity and safeguarding within legal and professional frameworks, including the Mental Health Act, and works autonomously as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber.