• Accountable manager/matron for Saint Mary’s Theatres and IVF Theatre Suite• Responsible for 84 staff and all associated HR, including performance management and disciplinaries• Lead change management and provide strategic direction• Providing visible leadership• Financial management, managing a budget in excess of £3M• Responsible for service improvement and driving quality and safety standard• Implementation of LEAN working and Six Sigma• Commitement to CQUIN standards, focusing on patient experience, do no harm and quality• Management of patient complaints• Responsible for health and safety, governance and risk management, incident reporting and HLIs• Writing and preparation of educational competencies, including pre-operative practitioner competencies• Preparation of policies and protocols• Management of pre-operative services including re-design of pathway paperwork and pre-operative practitioner

• To lead innovation in service change regarding divisional capacity planning to effect better theatre utilisation• Project Manager: Loan Kit Project. Design, co-ordination and implementation of a loan kit co-ordination system to support efficient and productive working.• Seconded by Associate Director to review medical secretarial workforce planning across the Division with recommendations for implementation (currently being undertaken)• Member of the Senior Management Team for Critical Care• Responsible for Operations Management for Critical Care ensuring 18-week pathway adhered to, managing 30 frontline staff across a number of units within the directorate• Project management of IT/financial solutions• Process re-engineering to “LEAN” directorate units• Responsible for the design, implementation and co-ordination of the Elective Services Performance Dashboard• Human Resource management for 30 staff, including appraisals and KSF, recruitment and retention, performance management• Responsible for all aspects of Governance and Risk Management for Critical Care, including management of complaints, professional registrations• Writing of policies, protocols and procedures• Design, implementation and co-ordination of a number of IT systems, such as Verification of Professional Registrations, complaints and analysis of prosthetic usage and expenditure, loan kit usage and expenditure for Orthopaedics.• Editing, design and distribution of 4 quarterly newsletters each for Critical Care and Governance News – 8 in total annually• Training programme for Consent• Trust Flu Practitioner nurse, working under patient group directions for annual flu cycle

• Member of the Anaesthetics & Recovery team, working in accordance with agreed policies• Assess individual care needs: developing, planning, implementing and evaluating care programmes to meet the needs of patients within the perioperative environment.• Use professional judgement to analyse a range of conditions and act appropriately• Actively participate in the training of student nurses• Assist in the co-ordination of a very busy department to ensure that operating lists run effectively • Assist in audits and research as required• Participate in meetings and in-service training programmes and annual mandatory updates• Design, development and implementation of prosthetic activity programme to monitor activity within the orthopaedic and trauma theatres• Undertake continuous CPD. • Range of clinical skills including venepuncture, airway management, cannulation etc as expected as a A&R practitioner

• Responsible for over 60 staff including all aspects of strategic human resource management and administration. • Responsible for practice and partnership finances, managing a budget of over £1 million per annum. Increased partnership profits in first half year by 45%. Achieved maximum income ‘score’ on nGMS contract.• Operational management.• Chair of Glossopdale Public Forum regarding the development of a primary care resource centre.• IT&M development and training.• Preparation of bids to PCT for funding on cardiac, dermatology, cervical and minor surgery services.• Carrying out regular risk assessments in relation to Health & Safety.• Preparation and production of Annual Report.• Management of Complementary Therapy Business, including financial management and service development.

• Acting Business Manager and Departmental Organiser, Network Radio prior to promotion to above, handling HR, internal/external communication, report writing, departmental administration• Created and produced Music Live 1997 bid document (subsequent winner).• Co-ordinated Sony Radio Awards, BBC Philharmonic concerts, Programme Offers meetings for all five radio networks, Question Time (VIP guests ‘chaperone’), Student Radio Association Conference, BBC Proms 1996, co-ordinator of VIP event to mark the opening of the Bridgewater Hall, Woman’s Hour Workshops.• Developed and implemented internal and external PR strategies• Edited NORFAX (an internal electronic communication bulletin), external and internal staff newsletters• Event budget management• Daily media contact