Assistant Project Manager - South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
(2025-12)
Working within the Mind and Body team under Kings Health Partners, with projects primarily focusing on health inequalities, mental health and healthcare service improvements.
- Writing a rapid literature review about current mental health interventions (within various settings) which improve children and young people's mental health, with the intention of then finding out how effective these interventions impact their working life and their full life span
- Identifying the service gap of early diagnosis of lung cancer within severe mental illness patients, currently working with clinical teams and primary care to put in place pilots within their services to aim for earlier diagnosis and treatment
- Researching, liaising with stakeholders, creating project blueprints, providing clinical input (drawn from nursing background), updating spreadsheets, auditing, presenting findings/updates in meetings with senior management
Senior Paediatric Staff Nurse/Deputy Lead for Paediatrics - Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
(2024-09)
Working in combination in Paediatric Outpatients Department, Children's Day Surgical Unit and in the Urgent Care Centre.
- Leading shifts as the 'Clinical Lead' in the Outpatients Department, and 'Clinical Coordinator' when on the Surgical Unit, ensuring the effectiveness and fluidity of the service
- Using mentorship qualification to support and educate less senior staff, as well as parents, competent children and healthcare students
- Assessing staff competencies and providing constructive feedback and education
- Triaging patients effectively and treating their conditions accordingly
- Liaising frequently and attending meetings with HR, marketing and finance departments regarding service budgets and patient insurances
- Assisting in the project of creating a new unit within the hospital (Paediatric surgery, which opened in May 2025) by creating information leaflets, writing job descriptions for advertisement, creating spreadsheets for department finances
- Assisting with staff management, including line managing, approving annual leave, staff hiring, monitoring and booking staff training and completing staff appraisals
- Completing regular audits within the service
- Receiving and investigating any incidents which have been highlighted within the service, which are submitted via Datix
- Attending safeguarding meetings and submitting safeguarding referrals if needed to Social Care
- Managing a hospital-wide safeguarding staff training matrix
- Frequently attending the hospital 'Safeguarding Committee' to present service safeguarding audits, issues, and to discuss current serious case reviews
- Hosting a regular vaccination and travel clinic, following procedures set, e.g. by PGD's and NICE guidelines
- Completed additional training to support role and development within it, including; EPALS, Cannulation and Phlebotomy courses
Special School Nurse/Senior Immunisation Nurse - North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
(2022-03 - 2024-09)
Managed a large, complex medical caseload under allocated Special Educational Needs schools for a variety of medical conditions, such as; Epilepsy, Asthma, Oxygen requirements, mental health, chronic pain, etc.
- Provided relevant school staff training on how to use, store and administer emergency medications and how to effectively respond to a clinical emergency so that school staff are prepared in case off school site
- Managed a large safeguarding caseload, attended regular meetings and wrote detailed reports, including; CIN and Core Groups, providing input as the health representative and advocating for the child
- Provided health interventions, such as health promotion, growth monitoring and medication management
- Served as the port of call for school staff for any medical advice and support
- Administered medications to pupils and documented accordingly, this included medications administered via Buccal, Oral, Suppositories, via PEG, etc.
- Liaised closely with external teams in order to better care for the children on caseload, including; GPs, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, specialised hospital teams, Social Care, and many more
- Maintained excellent documentation via various IT programmes, including EPMA and Citrix
- Updated care plans for each student, detailing their Special Educational Needs and what medications they have, etc.
- Attended on site emergencies for children experiencing; seizures, mental health episodes, asthma attacks, and more severely, respiratory arrests
- Organised and promoted the childhood vaccination programme for children in Enfield, London, between 4 and 19 years old. This would be conducted either via school sessions or clinic sessions which were solely for vaccination catch up sessions
- Went to various schools and conducted health promotion awareness in schools, e.g., about cervical cancer, about the vaccinations offered, about sexual health, etc.
- Administered vaccines including - Hepatitis B, Measles Mumps Rubella, Human Papilloma Virus, Diphtheria Tetanus Polio, Meningitis, Flu and COVID vaccinations
- Reacted accordingly to anaphylactic reactions to a vaccination with emergency adrenaline kit
- Line managed 8 people within team, for whom completed appraisals, training and staff rota management
- Helped to support the team through a Polio and MMR campaign to increase vaccine uptake in Enfield following an outbreak, this involves contacting 17,000 children within a 12-month period
- Set up and regularly updated NHS Trusts' and Immunisation Team's website
- Regularly involved with communicating with commissioners regarding the service, data, audits and funding
GP Support Nurse (Regular Bank Staff) - Medicus Health Partners
(2021-05 - 2024-04)
- Supported in mass Flu and Covid vaccination centre, serving both adults and children in North London. Often Lead Nurse on these shifts, reconstituting vaccines, triaging, and assessing patient's eligibilities for various vaccines depending on their health conditions
- Worked alongside the Practice Nurse at one of the Medicus GP practices to support her with her caseload of patients at weekend clinics, for example, Asthma reviews, travel health advice and immunisations. This was for adults and paediatric patients
- Supported in organising for home vaccination visits for adults and children who could not attend the centre for any health reason
- Would assist in the safe disposal of sharps after clinics
Staff Nurse - Barnet Hospital, Royal Free NHS Trust
(2020-12 - 2021-05)
This job role location was split between a hospital ward for Children and Young Adults aged between 0 - 19 years old and with Adult and Paediatric A&E.
- Would administer medications via different routes into the body, e.g., injections, orally, rectally, intravenous, etc.
- Would be responsible for managing a caseload of patients and would work within time restraints
- Main conditions encountered were Mental Health, respiratory illnesses, neurological conditions, Sickle Cell Anaemia, Respiratory Issues, Surgical Needs and Diabetes
Hospice Nurse - Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
(2020-07 - 2020-12)
- Cared for End-of-Life patients to ensure a peaceful and pain-free death
- Always liaising with other professionals (e.g., GP, Safeguarding Team, Local Councils, Pain Team, etc), to ensure all needs were met
- Provided respite care to many children and their families. These children were all aged between 0 and 20 years old and suffered from a range of conditions, such as Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, Spine Disorders, Cystic Fibrosis, etc.
- Provide End-of-Life and respite care in the home and community if children and their families could not get into the hospice building
Staff Nurse - North Middlesex University Hospital
(2019-09 - 2020-07)
Split job role between a Children's High Dependency Unit and Paediatric A&E. Redeployed during Covid-19 to a community-based ward, working with recovering Covid-19 adults, all who needed additional support for other health conditions too, such as Mental Health, Diabetes, End of Life, and Cancer.
- Would be involved in Discharge Planning meetings for patients and would sometimes support Social Care in attending patient's properties to ensure that it was safe and suitable for them to be discharged
- Conducted multiple training sessions at Osborne Grove for new staff who had joined the team, such as Tissue Viability and Information Governance
