Care Assistant at Nurtura Staffing (2025-01 – Present)
- Provide person-centred care to elderly residents with dementia.
- Support with personal care, mobility, mealtimes, and emotional wellbeing.
- Maintain accurate care plans and escalate changes promptly.
Care Assistant at Northridge Care Group (2024-01 – 2025-12)
- Supported young people (10–18) with daily living and community integration.
- Responded to safeguarding concerns, including missing-from-home incidents.
- Writing and updating care plans.
- Maintained detailed activity records and collaborated with families and professionals.
Health Care Assistant (Bank Staff) at NHS Preston & Chorley (2023-01 – 2024-12)
- Delivered high-quality care in a fast-paced hospital environment.
- Supported clinical tasks including observations and patient monitoring.
- Followed NHS safeguarding and infection-control procedures.
- Assisting with personal care.
Care Assistant (Learning Disabilities) at Chorley Domiciliary Service (2022-01 – 2023-12)
- Supported adults with learning disabilities in supported living homes.
- Taking them out for shopping, movies to maintain their independents.
- Administered medication, prepared meals, and maintained records.
- Promoted independence through personalised support.
Senior Care Assistant at Willow Bank Residential Care Home (2021-01 – 2022-12)
- Led shifts and coordinated care for residents with dementia.
- Report safeguarding Queries.
- Moving and handling.
- Updated care plans, administered medication, and conducted observations.
- Collaborated with district nurses and families.
Senior Care Worker at Stocks Hall Mawdsley (2020-01 – 2021-12)
- Delivered holistic care for elderly residents and those recovering from injury.
- Supported wellbeing through activities and engagement.
- Ensured medication compliance and monitored health changes.
Carer at Buckshaw Retirement Village (2015-01 – 2020-12)
- Provided long-term dementia care and end-of-life support.
- Completed care plans, daily reports, and multidisciplinary communication.
- Supported residents with personal care, meals, and meaningful activities.
Accident & Emergency (A&E) - Integrated Professional Placement at Wigan Hospital (2026-05 – 2026-05)
Worked in a fast-paced emergency environment, responding to rapidly changing clinical and social needs. Worked on the Resuscitation unit, Triage, Majors, waiting room, ISAT and Clinical decision ward.
- Supported triage, initial assessments, and prioritisation of urgent cases.
- Performed clinical observations and assisted with emergency procedures.
- Collaborated with nurses, doctors, paramedics, and social workers to support safe discharge and crisis intervention.
Community REACT Team - Integrated Professional Placement at Wigan Hospital (2026-05 – 2026-05)
- Supporting safe and timely patient discharge, ensuring continuity of care and smooth transition from hospital to home.
- Administering IV antibiotics under supervision, following infection-control procedures and organisational policies.
- Carrying out clinical observations, including manual blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturation, and accurate documentation.
- Performing catheter changes and providing catheter care in line with best-practice guidelines.
- Delivering personal care to promote dignity, comfort, and independence.
- Supporting medication administration, ensuring safe handling and adherence to the five rights of medication.
- Collaborating with the physiotherapy team, assisting with mobility plans, exercise programmes, and functional assessments to promote rehabilitation and independence.
Integrated Professional Placement at Community Assessment Unit, Wigan (2026-05 – 2026-05)
- Collaborating with MDT teams to assess patient needs, contribute to clinical discussions, and support safe, timely discharge planning.
- Developing and implementing care plans tailored to individual patient needs, ensuring alignment with clinical priorities and social care requirements.
- Participating in MDT meetings, presenting patient updates, and contributing to decision-making around ongoing care and discharge pathways.
- Undertaking clinical tasks, including medication administration under supervision, recording, and interpreting observations, and performing ECGs.
- Conducting mental capacity assessments in line with legal and professional frameworks, documenting findings clearly and supporting best-interest decision-making.
Student Adult Nurse Placement at Aintree Hospital (2025-05 – 2025-07)
Completed over 8 weeks on the Acute Medicine Unit, Ambulance Emergency Care, and the Fraile team.
- Taking observations.
- Assisting with Medications.
- Venepuncture.
- Canulation.
- ECG.
- Sending blood to the laboratory and making sure to have all the right information.
- Administering injections.
- Administering patients and transferring patients to another ward.
- Writing nurses care plan.
- Pressure ulcer checks.
- Pressure ulcers categories and understanding the various levels.
Student Adult Nurse Placement at Wigan Hospital (2025-01 – 2025-04)
Completed over 10 weeks on the Orthopaedic ward.
- Admitting patients.
- Administering medications with the assistance of the nurse the use of SBAR to escalate a patient's condition.
- Wound dressing and skin check.
- Moving and handling patients.
- Communicating with patients and their families.
- Personal care.
- ECG.
- Administering and mixing IV medication.
- Taking blood from PICC line and making to discard of ten mil syringes of blood before taking what is needed.
- Mental capacity assessment.
- Implementing a DOLS order.
- Taking blood samples.
- Understanding Haemoglobin level and the procedures for blood transfusion.
- Inserting and removing catheters.
Student Adult Nurse Placement at Bridgewater community nurses (2024-05 – 2024-07)
Completed over 7 weeks of clinical with the community nurses in the community.
- Administering Insulin to patients at home.
- Taking Manual blood pressure.
- Doing Blood sugar readings.
- Wound care: Leg ulcers, pressure sores, diabetic ulcer with the use Aseptic Non- Touch Techniques (ANTT) always.
- Assisting with medications.
- B12 injections.
- Inserting and removal of catheter.
- Bladder wash.
- The use of Doppler to check for blood flow in the legs.
Student Social Worker Placement at The princes Trust (2024-01 – 2024-04)
Completed over 70 days of practice working with young people.
- Conducted needs assessments, developed care plans, and signposted individuals to appropriate services (e.g., housing, mental health support, benefits advice).
- Assisting young Adult with safeguarding especially those that are at risk of abuse with enquiries under the Care Act 2014, contributing to risk assessments and protection plans for vulnerable adults.
- Facilitated access to community resources, advocating for service users' rights and promoting independence.
- Applied knowledge of social policy and legislation (e.g., Mental Capacity Act 2005, Care Act 2014 and the children act 1889 and 2004) and the 2004 Act strengthened safeguarding, coordination, and children's rights to inform practice.
- Engaged in complex communication with service users, families, and external agencies to build rapport and facilitate positive outcomes.
Student Adult Nurse Placement at Southport Hospital (2023-04 – 2023-06)
Completed over 7 weeks of clinical placement in the stroke ward.
- Provided direct patient care, administered medications with assistance from the nurses, monitored vital signs, assisted with personal care, document observations, assist in writing care plans.
- Supported pre- and post-operative care, wound management, and pain assessment.
- Bladder scanning.
- ECG.
- Focused on person-centred care, mobility support, and discharge planning.
- Collaborated effectively with multidisciplinary teams, including doctors, allied health professionals, and other nurses, to ensure coordinated patient care.
- Developed strong skills in patient assessment, communication, empathy, and critical thinking within a fast-paced clinical environment.
