Sheena Wright has considerable experience in senior nursing and management roles. She began her career in 1980 and held a variety of nursing posts in hospital and community settings. From 1995-2000, she held a joint appointment as Lecturer/Practitioner between the University of Glasgow and Greater Glasgow Primary Care Trust. From 2000 until 2002 Sheena was Assistant Director of Nursing and she then took up the post of Deputy Director, both within NHS Greater Glasgow. In 2006, Sheena became Head of Health & Community Care and Lead Nurse Advisor in an integrated Community Health & Care Partnership with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Glasgow City Council. In 2008 she was Interim Nurse Director/Chief Operating Officer for NHS Western Isles. Her previous post was in the Scottish Government Health Department as Nursing Officer with a responsibility for Children, Vulnerable Families and Early Years.   

Sheena was a member of the Nursing & Midwifery Council from 2002-2007 and has been an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Glasgow since 2000.