Alana Dyke

• Defined and implemented quality standards across production processes, enabling improved outcomes.
• Developed organizational policies for administrative oversight and internal controls.
• Created waste management system.
• Designed and implemented quality assurance training programs for improved staff understanding.
• Drove continual improvement of quality standards, systems, and procedures to meet key business objectives.
• Contributed to audit planning, testing, and review of audit programs to determine the new Regeneration catering model system problems and solutions.
• Created UHD Waste management record system for new catering model.
• Nutritionally analyzed recipes and allergens.
• Maintained a safe working environment by ensuring food safety standards and HACCP compliance across all tasks.
• Wrote SOP for new UHD Regeneration catering model, trained ward staff, and investigated emerging issues to help resolve them.
• Used nutritional knowledge to change UHD catering policies, such as fridge monitoring poster explaining HACCP, bacteria growth, and temperature audit.

• One-to-one personalised client care, involving activities together whilst managing neurological conditions (for example, hypoxic brain injury or physical injury).
• Managing time alongside clients schedule.
• Prepared nutrition including IDDSi and enteral nutrition, delivered feeding support.
• Moving and handling trained.
• Ensured safe, secure living conditions for service users, reducing risk and enhancing quality of life.
• Recorded clinical observations and behaviour charts, fluid charts, and food record charts.
• Build quick rapport and communicating personalised.
• Communicated with community nurses, physiotherapists and dietitians.

Followed ISO guidance completed more than 1000 samples per day using PCR machine.

Adapted to a fast changing environment, with evolving test mechanisms alongside a research industry.

Hollowcore fibre splicing.

Quickly learnt new technical skills.

Followed laboratory safety procedures.

Hitting targets.

• Assisted in all aspects of personal care, retaining comfort and dignity.
• Helped individuals with day-to-day activities while consistently encouraging independence and self-belief.
• Used outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to build positive relationships with clients for exceptional satisfaction ratings.
• Medication administration, record keeping, and problem reporting.
• Maintaining trusting working relationships amongst a team and service-users, family members, and friends.
• Assisted with rehabilitative care following treatment plans established by physiotherapists.
• Prepared clients nutrition, assisted with cleaning.
• Encouraging self independence, upholding respect and dignity.

• Lighthouse Laboratory Plymouth has been awarded the highest functioning COVID-19 laboratory in the UK. Following GLP and ISO15189:2012 accreditation.
• Autonomous role, working within molecular classification level 3 laboratory, working aseptically, following COSHH regulations, strict cleaning procedures and laboratory SOP’s.
• Competent in sample processing, COVID-19 RNA Extraction and PRE-PCR.
• Consistently achieved 100% targets on sample processing (10,000-15,000 samples) and reducing non-conformances in a high-pressured environment no mistakes were critical.
• Adaptation of new laboratory equipment: Janus G3, fume cupboard, centrifuges, vortex, pipettes, MANTIS and Chemagic 360.
• Innovating and suggesting new SOPs to adapt procedures when workflow changed / new laboratory procedures to increase efficiency: new master mix preparation.
• Passed 100% of environmental swabbing
• Participated in laboratory quality audits of machinery, water runs for contamination testing, tip testing of new stock.
• Held high accountability, training new staff, and recording all actions I took in the laboratory.
• Responsible for laboratory finances creating shopping lists and sample disposal
• With a closely communicating team, problems were successfully solved, and tasks were prioritised.
• Whole heartedly followed NHS values: Confidentiality, honesty, integrity and ownership.
• Have supremely developed soft skills: time management, attention to detail, organisation, hand eye coordination, problem solving, autonomous teamwork, independence, self-motivation, accuracy and precision under pressure, concentration, analysis.
• Wind-prep on liquid handing machines.