Academic staff

In this role I was teaching undergraduate and postgraduate pre and postregistration midwifery and health care students. I have been involved in teaching anatomy and physiology, normality, infant feeding, and relationship building, midwifery skills across all the years, managing emergencies in maternity and

research modules in all levels (level 5 -7) where I was also supervising MSc dissertation projects. I was also a module leader for one 1st year module -skills module, and two 2nd year modules - neonatal studies and global maternal health. I have been using VLE, enquire-based learning, simulation, skilled-based & cased based approached to have interactive teaching and learning. During Covid19, online interactive teaching approach was adopted with the use of VLE, online live & narrated sessions, use of online discussion boards for interaction and student engagement. I was marking assignments, narrated PowerPoint presentations and

exam papers, assessing students on OSCEs, and participated in the University's screening and selection processes by reviewing applications and interviewing candidates. In addition to this, I was the elective placement coordinator for both the shortened and the long midwifery programmes, and I was responsible to liaise

with the nationals and/or international organisations for students' elective placements. As part of this role, I also created an elective placement booklet for students to use during their placement to record and reflect on their experiences.

Further to my role as midwifery lecturer, I was linked to two of our partner Trusts as link lecturer providing support to the clinical staff regarding our students and liaising with the CPFs. I was a personal tutor to a number of students from both

the undergraduate and the postgraduate programmes, providing pastoral care and support with their studies and clinical placements, making sure that if an action plan is required to put in place to support students' learning needs.

In my research role, I worked as part of the Women's Health Research Team actively contributing to the running of Obstetric, Fertility, Fetal Medicine, and Gynaecology clinical trials. I was responsible for studies on the NIHR portfolio including patient identification, consent, screening, study-related care, and follow-up. I supported research in Women's Health and it was my responsibility to not only maintain contemporaneous documentation of clinical events and data input into the case report forms and to keep study files up to date, but also to ensure that I was working in accordance with the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical

Trials) Regulations 2004, Research Governance Framework 2005, ICH Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP) guidelines, Data Protection Act 1998 and other local policies and regulations. In addition, I coordinated my own case-load of clinical studies and the participants. Moreover, I reported to PI and CI serious adverse

events that happen. To continue, I have developed administration skills as part of my role (i.e. recruitment records are accurately maintained, access the computer network as required retrieving relevant information) and I was also responsible to

provide ongoing advice and information to participants/volunteers with regard to their participation in clinical research in order to facilitate effective informed consent. Furthermore, in this role, I assisted the midwifery and nursing students working with me in the Research Team, as well as the clinicians in the assessment of participants/volunteers for eligibility for research and monitoring of their condition throughout their participation and I worked within the NMC Code Of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice. Finally, I made sure I keep the appropriate staff informed of the progress of clinical studies and I maintained up-to-date knowledge of research related articles particularly related to clinical studies.

Band 6 Midwife working at the postnatal ward for 6 months and then for 18 months on the alongside birthing centre. During my placement on Postnatal Word, I was providing holistic care to mothers and babies. In the Maternity Care Unit, I was looking after high-risk postnatal women (with instrumental deliveries, or post-cesarean section) and their babies. There were also babies that needed intensive care as there were under phototherapy, observations or they had difficulty with breastfeeding and I was supporting these families in order to help them to join in

the parental role with more confidence.

During my placement at Birthing Centre, as a senior band 6 Midwife, I was providing holistic midwifery care to women and

babies in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. Providing antenatal education, active birth, natural methods of pain relief, water birth, birth in upright positions, physiological 3rd stage, skin to skin, and breastfeeding support.

Managing obstetric and neonatal emergencies in the birthing centre and organising immediate transfers to the Delivery Suite when appropriate.

Rotational Midwife during my preceptorship. Provided holistic midwifery care to women and babies in the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods.

Midwifery Programme

Midwifery Programme in Greek