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Emma Cassar

Fife

Summary

A highly skilled professional with expertise in remaining calm under pressure, adept problem solving abilities, and exceptional communication skills. Demonstrates a strong capacity for team building, fostering collaborative environments that drive success. Committed to leveraging these competencies to achieve organisational goals and contribute to continued growth and innovation.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Bowel Screening/Endoscopy Pre Assessment Lead

NHS Fife
QMH Dunfermline
2025.08 - Current
  • Lead and oversee the day‑to‑day delivery of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme alongside the Endoscopy Pre‑Assessment service, ensuring a safe, efficient, and patient‑centred service.
  • Provide operational leadership for a multidisciplinary team, including supervision, workload management, support, and performance monitoring.
  • Manage and coordinate staff rotas, allocation of work, and service priorities to ensure seamless patient pathways and effective use of resources.
  • Deliver training, coaching, and ongoing support to team members, ensuring staff are competent, confident, and compliant with national and local policies.
  • Monitor service performance against national targets and KPIs, taking proactive action to address capacity, demand, and service pressures.
  • Ensure timely and accurate pre‑assessment of patients to support safe endoscopy procedures and minimise cancellations or delays.
  • Maintain high standards of clinical governance, data quality, and patient safety, ensuring adherence to NHS, Trust, and screening programme standards.
  • Act as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, promoting effective communication and collaborative working.
  • Support service improvement initiatives, contributing to pathway development, audit activity, and quality improvement work to enhance patient experience and outcomes.

Staff Nurse Endoscopy

NHS Fife
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, Fife
2022.09 - 2025.08

• Working in procedure rooms
• Admitting and recovering patients
• Co-Ordinating
• Pre Assessing
• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care plans under indirect supervision from senior staff
• Working as part of a team to provide a safe, effective, efficient care environment for patients and relatives
• On Call
• Strong clinical judgement and ability to work under pressure and excellent communication skills
• Student Mentor/Assessor

Staff Nurse

Scottish Nursing Guild
Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2018.01 - 2024.06

Agency work in A&E and ICU departments all over Scotland

Staff Nurse Intensive Care

NHS Fife
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, Fife
2020.08 - 2022.03
  • Strong clinical judgement and ability to work under pressure and excellent communication skills
    • Working as part of a team to provide a safe, effective, efficient care environment for patients and relatives
    • Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care plans under indirect supervision from senior staff
    • Caring for Intubated and Ventilated patients
    • Shift rotations including weekends and nights
    • Participating in ongoing education to update skills and knowledge
    • Use of braun pumps and iv administration
    • Central lines, arterial lines, wound care, drains
    • Worked throughout the Covid pandemic

Staff Nurse Emergency Department

NHS Lothian
St John's Hospital, Livingston, Livingston
2017.06 - 2020.08

• Triage and Resus competent
• Cannulation and Venipuncture
• IV administration
• BLS, ILS, PILS
• Braun and Alaris pumps
• Mentor to new Staff Nurses
• Mindray monitors
• 12 Lead ECG, ABG sampling, Catheters Male and Female, DEFIB, chest drains, fluid warmers, Bair Huggers, stand aids, manual handling
• Airway trolley
• All aspects of personal care
• Excellent Communication, taking handovers from SAS, answering emergency phone
• Take charge of department in absence of Deputy/Charge Nurse
• Flow coordinator
• Violence and Aggression
• Accurate documentation

Staff Nurse Princess Alexandria Eye Pavillion

NHS Lothian
Edinburgh
2016.09 - 2017.06

• Scrub Nurse
• Involved in perioperative care through to recovery
• Following infection control protocols
• Thorough pre and post-operative equipment checks

Customer service advisor

Scottish Gas
Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2010.04 - 2014.02

• Scrub Nurse
• Involved in perioperative care through to recovery
• Following infection control protocols
• Thorough pre and post-operative equipment checks

• Team Second – Assisting team Leader; Quality monitoring and feedback to agents, daily updates on stats, updating empower, buzz sessions, manager call backs, driving Wrap & Virtuatel incentives
• Floor-walking/assisting new agents with training at various sites including Edinburgh, Uddingston & Oldbury, Birmingham
• Temporary Manager of Service Delivery/Complaints team, Surbiton, London
• Putting together some helpful tips and advice from the most frequently asked questions and cascading to newly trained Dyno agents
• Assist on recruitment days and carry out interviews and role plays
• Support the Loop Feedback inbox by providing feedback to agents and franchises to help improve the quality of our customer service

Cabin Crew

BMI/Emirates/British Airways
Edinburgh/Dubai, Edinburgh
2002.03 - 2011.11

• Initial and recurrent training in Safety and First Aid successful
• Responsible for passenger comfort and safety and delivered high standard of customer service
• Operating scheduled and charter flights
• Trained on three different aircraft types
• Working rotating shift patterns including public holidays
• Flying to over 100 destinations in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the USA
• Working together in a multi-national team of over 120 nationalities
• Operating four different aircraft types including Airbus and Boeing
• Worked in Economy, Business and First Class cabins maintaining high standard of award winning service at all times
• Lived and worked in multi-cultural environment
• Basic Arabic and cultural lessons

Telephone Banking Advisor

Kelly Services
Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2009.10 - 2010.04

• Inbound telephone advisor, helping customers with general banking queries
• Recognising opportunities to up sell bank's products such as loans, credit cards and savings
• Best performing sales person in my team
• Excellent customer service at all times and picked up new systems and processes very quickly
• Worked on a shift basis from 8am to 8pm Mon to Sat

Franchisee

Subway
Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2007.11 - 2009.10

• Co-owned and managed two busy stores and in charge of up to fifteen employees
• Completed two weeks training in Connecticut, USA and gained a diploma in the operation of running a Subway store
• Customer Focused - Managing the customer journey from start to finish, ensuring customers are welcomed, served in a timely manner and to brand standards maximizing their experience and driving repeat visits
• Leadership - providing employees with coaching, feedback and development opportunities and building an effective team
• Controls and Measures - Manage the stock, waste tracking, suppliers and staff scheduling within the allocated store budget
• Strategic Planning - Develop strategic and operational plans for the team, managing their implementation and measuring results
• Cash handling and banking
• Working a variety of shifts including evenings and weekends

Education

Bachelor of Science - Adult Nursing

Edinburgh Napier University
Edinburgh
2013.09 - 2016.09

Skills

  • Calm under pressure
  • Problem-solving
  • Communication skills
  • Team building

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Bowel Screening/Endoscopy Pre Assessment Lead

NHS Fife
2025.08 - Current

Staff Nurse Endoscopy

NHS Fife
2022.09 - 2025.08

Staff Nurse Intensive Care

NHS Fife
2020.08 - 2022.03

Staff Nurse

Scottish Nursing Guild
2018.01 - 2024.06

Staff Nurse Emergency Department

NHS Lothian
2017.06 - 2020.08

Staff Nurse Princess Alexandria Eye Pavillion

NHS Lothian
2016.09 - 2017.06

Bachelor of Science - Adult Nursing

Edinburgh Napier University
2013.09 - 2016.09

Customer service advisor

Scottish Gas
2010.04 - 2014.02

Telephone Banking Advisor

Kelly Services
2009.10 - 2010.04

Franchisee

Subway
2007.11 - 2009.10

Cabin Crew

BMI/Emirates/British Airways
2002.03 - 2011.11
Emma Cassar