Consultant - Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
Flexible & self motivated professional. Analytical & problem solving skills. Improvement of systems, processes, and use of information. Training. Knowledge of UK health sector.
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| Hourly Rate: | £27.78 |
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CV
Employment History
(2005 & ongoing)
Consultant
Projects include:
• Form design.
• Form completion wizards for GP clinical information system.
• Implementation of NICE guidance (policy).
• Configuration of an incident reporting system.
• Training – incident reporting.
(2004 to 2005)
Data Mapping Facilitator (Fixed term contracts)
In this role I worked with NHS trusts across England and Wales to help them review their risk management systems for incident reporting, and map the dataset definitions, enabling them to connect and submit data electronically to the National Reporting and Learning System.
Achievements
• Exceeded targets for connecting trusts to the National Reporting and Learning System.
• Developed knowledge base productivity tools using Excel VBA.
(2003 to 2004)
Service Delivery Manager, Children’s Services
Addenbrooke’s Hospital NHS TrustIn this role I provided operational management to Children’s Services, with particular responsibility for administration, risk management, and outpatient’s activities. This involved budget control, responsibility for meeting government targets, and service development initiatives across the service.
Achievements
• Improvements to outpatient administration systems resulting in better use of information for decision making and monitoring of performance against internal and external targets.
• Transfer of outpatient booking systems to ‘partial booking’ resulting in increased choice for patients and improved performance against several measures.
(2000 to 2003)
Clinical Effectiveness Facilitator
Bedfordshire and Luton Community NHS TrustIn this role I provided support to teams within the organisation, and ultimately to 3 three Primary Care Trusts as well, in support of the Clinical Governance agenda. This involved facilitating clinical audit and improvement projects, and providing training across clinical effectiveness and management disciplines.
Achievements
• Development and delivery of training courses in clinical audit and management related subjects.
• Development of project management practice and systems within the Clinical Effectiveness team.
• Development of systems and tools using Excel VBA.
(1999 to 2000)
Health Care Assistant
Allied MedicareIn this role I provided patient centred support to clients in both hospital and community settings.
(1996 to 1999)
Instructor
New Zealand Red CrossThis was a part time role teaching first aid and related courses. It also involved some course development work in the disaster management area.
(1994 to 1999)
Corporate Quality Co-ordinator / Webmaster
Industrial Research LimitedIn this role I was responsible for managing quality systems and documentation for the organisation and providing support for improvement initiatives at a corporate level and within teams. This involved managing internal and external quality audit programmes, providing policy advice to senior management, and providing facilitation and process tools to improvement teams.
Achievements
• Established and developed the Corporate Quality Coordinator role.
• Achieved and maintained ISO 9001 Certification for a research and development organisation of 400 people across three sites.
• Participated in a team expanding quality systems for ISO 14001 Certification.
• Implemented the transition from a paper based quality manual to a fully electronic web based system supported by intranet features to support the quality management agenda.
• Facilitated a wide range of improvement teams.
• Established the concept of an intranet for communication and information sharing within the company.
(1990 to 1999)
Ambulance Officer (Voluntary Part Time)
Wellington Free Ambulance ServiceIn this role I provided an emergency response to urgent trauma and medical incidents, as well as more routine transfer work.
(1986 to 1995)
Science Technician
Industrial Research LimitedIn this role I provided technical support to a wide range of research projects and commercial activities, particularly within the National Measurement Standards Laboratory. This was primarily centred on computing and electronic skills, but extended to a broad range of activities.
Professional Qualifications
2001 - 2003 •Executive MBA [Luton University]
2001 •Excel & VBA
•Snap (questionnaire design software)
1996 - 2000 •Diploma in Management [New Zealand Institute of Management]
2000 •Powerpoint
1997 •Complaints Handling
1996 •Heart Foundation CPR Instructor
•New Zealand Red Cross Instructor
•Total Quality Management for Service Industries
•Certificate of Adult Teaching [Central Institute of Technology]
1995 •Civil Defence Basic Rescue Instructor
1994 •Proficiency Ambulance Aid
•Internal Quality Audits
1989 •NZCE: Electronics and Computer Technology [Wellington Polytechnic]
Categories & Skills
Administration Support
Categories
Skills
- Access (Microsoft)
- CRB (Security Clearance)
- Customer Service
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- FrontPage (Microsoft)
- Letter Writing
- Microsoft
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
Catering & Hospitality
Categories
Skills
Education and Research
Categories
Skills
- Business (Further Education)
- Computing (Further Education)
- CRB (Security Clearance)
- Data & Communication Systems (Further Education)
- Electronic Engineering (Further Education)
- English (Languages)
- Information Systems (Further Education - Computing)
- Interactive Software Dev (Further Education - Computing)
- Internet Technologies (Further Education - Computing)
- IT (Further Education)
- Management (Research)
- MBA (Further Education)
- Software Engineering (Further Education - Computing)
- Staff Training (Further Education)
- Training Design (Further Education)
Healthcare (Non-Clinical)
Categories
Skills
- Administration (Estates - Operational Management)
- Clinical Audit (Healthcare - Clinical Management)
- Clinical Audit (Health Informatics - Information Management)
- Clinical Governance (Healthcare - Clinical Management)
- Clinical Management (Healthcare)
- Information Management (Health Informatics)
- Operational Management (Estates)
- Personnel (HR)
- Risk Management (Healthcare - Clinical Management)
HR/Training & Development
Categories
Skills
- Absence Management (Performance Management)
- Competency Testing (Recruitment)
- Course Material Development (Training & Development)
- CRB (Security Clearance)
- Delivery (Training & Development - Training)
- Disciplinary Issues (Performance Management)
- English (Languages)
- Induction Process (Recruitment)
- Induction Training (Training & Development)
- Interviewing (Recruitment)
- Leadership Development (Training & Development)
- Managerial Development (Training & Development)
- Managing Difficult People (Performance Management)
- Needs Analysis (Training & Development - Training)
- Programme Design (Training & Development - Training)
- Psychometric Testing (Recruitment)
- Reference Checking (Recruitment)
- Staff Morale (Performance Management)
- Team Building (Performance Management)
- Team Building (Training & Development)
- Training (Training & Development)
IT & Internet
Categories
- Business Software
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Project Management
- Reporting & Analysis
- Web Development/Prog
Skills
- ASP (Programming)
- Basic (Programming)
- C (Programming)
- Change Management (Project Management)
- DOS (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- FrontPage (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- HR/Healthcare/Recruitment (Business Software)
- IIS (Web Development/Prog)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Web Development/Prog)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- MS Access
- MS Visio (Reporting & Analysis)
- Pascal (Programming)
- PowerPoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Project Management)
- Public Sector (Project Management)
- VBA (Programming)
- VBScript (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- Visio (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Windows 2000 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows NT (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- CRB (Security Clearance)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- General Management (Business Consulting)
- Microsoft
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Process Design
- Process Mapping
- Project (Microsoft)
- Risk Management
- Systems Implementation (IT Consulting)
- Visio (Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
Media & Creative
Categories
Skills

