Helen has always enjoyed teaching, and has been involved in delivering teaching throughout her career. Prior to becoming an Assistant Professor at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (UoB) Helen has been a Teacher Practitioner at UoB and Aston University, a Clinical Pharmacy Diploma Tutor for Bath University and Keele University, a Designated Practice Supervisor for pharmacists undertaking their Independent Prescribing and a Trainee Foundation Pharmacist Tutor in Secondary Care. Throughout her career in Secondary Care Helen has also delivered regular teaching to Junior Doctors, Registrars, Pharmacists, Physician Associates, County-wide GP surgeries, and Consultants as part of varying teaching programmes at the Acute Trust. Her teaching portfolio is focussed around Diabetes, Geriatric Medicine and safe prescribing. In these roles Helen gained experience in small and large group teaching, flipped teaching and practical skills workshop delivery within the hospital and university environments. Helen has taught a wide range of clinical pharmacy topics at Undergraduate level whilst at Aston University and at UoB she specialised in the delivery of complex cases, frailty, polypharmacy and clinical skills workshops.
Helen is experienced in oral (OSCE’s) and written examinations in undergraduate and post-graduate pharmacy students. This includes writing, marking and moderating assessments in a variety of clinical topics. Helen has also written OSCE stations for interviews and assessments in Secondary Care.
Helen presented at the Advanced Clinical Practice Conference in 2021 and won the price for best poster. She hopes to continue to develop her research portfolio at the UoB.
Helen continues to work clinically as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Geriatric Emergency Medicine at Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust (where she has worked for the last 5 years). Helen has worked in Secondary Care since qualifying as a Pharmacist in 2012, and has worked in specialities such as Acute Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology and Elderly Care.