Duties include:*Keeping parents and others informed of the school’s activities and achievements via the school Twitter feed, writing and posting tweets with appropriate images.*Running school Council meetings and keeping the Headteacher and other senior members of staff abreast of decisions/proposed actions; seeking the necessary permission for these. *Encouraging children to have a ‘voice’ in the school by supporting them to pursue relevant initiatives that they are interested in. *Mentoring new learning support assistants, ensuring they can quickly get to grips with the job in a supported environment.*Working closely with class teachers to help support/progress children's learning to the expected national standard and beyond, and to help prepare children to sit national tests in their final year at primary school.*Supporting children, both in and outside the classroom, to help them achieve their learning goals. Also, to look after children's social/emotional needs. *Planning, delivering, recording and helping to monitor the effectiveness of teaching interventions to small groups of children.*Supporting the school to help provide a safe and nurturing environment for children to flourish.

*Worked closely with class teachers to help support/progress children's learning to the expected national standard and beyond, and to help prepare children to sit national tests in their final year at primary school.*Supported children, both in and outside the classroom, to help them achieve their learning goals. Also, to look after children's emotional/social needs. *Planned, delivered, recorded and helped to monitor the effectiveness of teaching interventions to small groups of children.*Supported the school in helping to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children to flourish.

• Led magazine; responsible for commissioning, managing and developing content.• Managed the Society’s online news operation; responsible for building links between online and offline content. • Secured and carried out high profile interviews, including with government ministers.• Wrote and subbed copy.• Worked closely with design and production staff, proofread pages and signed off pages for press. • Led a team of in-house journalists; coordinated and managed freelance editors and writers. • Reported to directors and member committees; worked with chief executive, directors and other senior staff, including press/PR and marketing staff.• Managed a substantial budget.

• Wrote news and features for the BMJ, the Health Service Journal, Health Which?, Community Care, Physiotherapy Frontline, Doctor, Hospital Doctor, Occupational Health and People Management.• Wrote and coordinated content for Community Care's website.

As a reporter I:• Researched and wrote news articles and news analysis.• Regularly came up with off-diary, exclusive stories.• Interviewed ministers, top ranking civil servants and senior health service managers. • Wrote about health service systems abroad.As deputy news editor, in addition to the above, I also:• Covered in the news editor's absence, including managing reporters, commissioning copy, editing copy and proofreading pages to press ready standard.• Managed gossip column and others.

Wrote news and features for this weekly publication for family doctors.

I wrote news and features for this weekly local newspaper.