Clinical Safety Officer

• Sep 2022 - Present

Global Senior Clinical Risk Manager

• Apr 2022 - Aug 2022

Additional responsibilities to the previous responsibilities of clinical risk manager:- Deputy for the company's Clinical Safety Officer and leading the clinical safety team - Taking part in the BSI ISO 13485:2016 Recertification audit in relation to clinical risk management (ISO 14971)- Training and mentoring of junior or newer staff members

Clinical Risk Manager - Global

• May 2019 - Aug 2022

• Specialist in patient safety and compliance to the Data Co-ordination Board (DCB)0129/0160 standards for the manufacture and deployment of IT health systems, as well as EN ISO 14971 & IEC 62304 for software as a medical device• Applying the clinical risk management system to the agile development process in accordance with Babylon’s secure software lifecycle process • Producing clinical safety cases, hazard logs and reports across a portfolio of products and services including artificial intelligent engineering product releases and localisation reports • Undertaking the management of clinical safety incidents (including out of hours) as part of Post-Market Surveillance within the Quality Management System (QMS)• Promoting the clinical safety culture through staff engagement, training, mentoring junior members of the team and presentations • Working as part of a team with clinical safety officer, chief medical officer, clinical safety engineer and subject matter experts Show less

Senior oncology pharmacist

• Oct 2017 - Apr 2019

• Clinical screen, product approval and final release of cancer chemotherapy and investigational medicinal products for oncology & haematology clinical trials and patient access schemes • Medicines management and the provision of clinical, pharmaceutical services to oncology and haematology areas including; surgical and medical wards, chemotherapy day unit and outpatients (at Guy’s cancer centre), clinical trials and palliative care. • Deputy manager within the chemotherapy aseptic unit at Guy’s Cancer Centre; ensuring activities comply with current good manufacturing, good clinical practice and the local quality system • Pro-active member of the multi-disciplinary team within clinical operations, quality assurance and clinical trials • Devising and presenting educational content to other healthcare professionals • Authoring and implementing policies and procedures for cost and service improvement • Undertaking staff recruitment and interviews Show less

Specialist pharmacist - Oncology/Technical Services

• Oct 2016 - Oct 2017

• Medicines management services for oncology, general, surgical and medical wards• Clinical screen and final release of adult and paediatric chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition and extemporaneous products• Providing pharmaceutical services to weekly adult parenteral nutrition ward rounds with consultant gastroenterologist and lead regional dietician• Adhering to Good Manufacturing Practice to maintain the MHRA specials manufacturing licence• Chair for the Emergency duty pharmacists’ discussion group• Taking part in service improvement, clinical development of junior pharmacists, pharmacy training for doctors, nurses and midwives• Member of the ‘kaizen’ clinical services improvement discussion group – authored a report which consequently decreased discharge prescription waiting time by two hours• Produced a new Trust policy to optimise NHS resources by rationalising discharge medication – resulted in cost savings to the pharmacy department budget Show less

Junior clinical rotational pharmacist

• Sep 2014 - Oct 2016

• Medicines management as a rotational pharmacist with emergency duty; thus ensuring patient safety and medicines optimisation. • Daily duties included medicines reconciliation, being a pro-active member of the multi-disciplinary team and providing expert medicines information.• Rotations completed included: stroke, cardiology, acute medicine, gynaecology, dispensary, gastroenterology, respiratory, hospice, medicines information and paediatrics.• Organised and chaired service improvement meetings for emergency duty pharmacists. • Lead monthly meetings which included directing a discussion on how the team can implement efficiencies in the daily emergency service protocols as well as sharing experiences for clinical development.• Member of the ‘Kaizen clinical services improvement discussion group'• Authored a report on ways in which the pharmaceutical discharge service at ward level should be improved in order to increase the efficiency of NHS resources. Show less

Pre-registration pharmacist

• Jul 2013 - Aug 2014

• Successful completion of the pre-registration pharmacist training year at main base site Watford General Hospital. • Fulfilled competency based rotations within the pharmacy department including medicines information, technical services, dispensary, medicine, surgery, ITU, care of the elderly, paediatrics and the acute admissions unit. • Training year additionally supplemented with; a cross-sector placement in community pharmacy, outpatients placement in St. Albans City Hospital, placement at quality control at Lister hospital and a experience with the London Ambulance Service ride out night shifts • The pre-registration year also comprised of attending regular study days with London Pharmacy Education & Training. Completion of the pre-registration year was immediately followed by application and acceptance to the professional register of pharmacists within the UK Show less