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Helen Schorah

Helen Schorah

Midwife
Chippenham,Wiltshire

Summary

Sensitive individual, well versed in delivering personalised care plans for service users and their families. Builds rapport quickly to develop positive relationships and works diligently with precision for safe, supportive outcomes.


Passionate about importance and use of up to date, evidence based knowledge to ensure fully informed decision making, and continual analysis of outcomes so that improvements in services can be properly instigated.


Extensive experience in service user assessments, monitoring and care programme delivery. New antenatal education programme successfully written and implemented, with excellent feedback received from both service users and colleagues, trained in how to facilitate sessions within their own teams.


Seeking to extend career in alternative direction, to better ensure service user safety, highlight excellent practice wherever found, and support providers to take appropriate action to avoid or respond to regulatory breaches and serious incidents.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Midwife

Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Swindon, Wiltshire
01.2016 - Current

NIPE Midwife

  • Ensured timely provision of national screening programme; completed KPIs to ensure timely and effective regulatory oversight; liaising with paediatric colleagues to improve service user outcomes.
  • Provided peer training for midwifery students, peers, ST3 and GP colleagues regarding NIPE process and referral pathways.
  • Delivered health promotion seamlessly during service user contact, raising awareness about health issues and education regarding newborn care.

Community Midwife

  • Provided antenatal and postnatal care autonomously in clinics & home settings and intrapartum care at home with colleagues.
  • Rewrote and facilitated local antenatal education programme; provided peer training in how to deliver antenatal classes.
  • Provided and supported service users with in-depth, individualised infant feeding care plans; identified those with potential need for frenulotomy and liased with local ENT Dept to ensure appropriate referrals actioned.

Midwife

Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley, Hampshire
06.2012 - 12.2015

Community Team Leader - Band 7

  • Managed team of community midwives; coordinating daily service provision across geographical area; maintaining KPIs to ensure timely service use outcomes; completing rota to maintain correct skill mix; carrying out appraisals; attending meetings with colleagues, wider MDT and higher management to ensure excellent team adhesion, work ethic and service provision.


Community Midwife:

  • Provided evidence based antenatal and postnatal care and support; gave family planning advice, leading to informed reproductive choices; facilitated home births, ensuring comfortable environment for birthing experience.
  • Conducted antenatal classes for informed decisions about birth choices.

Midwife

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
01.2010 - 05.2012

Community Midwife

  • Helped instigate new Integrated Community Team, working seamlessly between hospital and home settings and within multidisciplinary team for improved patient outcomes.
  • Provided autonomous antenatal and postnatal care in clinic & home settings, and intrapartum care at home and on local MLU with colleagues.
  • Developed and conducted antenatal classes for informed decisions about birth choices, with 100% positive feedback from service users.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Midwifery

Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames
09.2006 - 09.2009

Skills

  • Strong communicator with respectful, compassionate manner and good conflict resolution skills
  • Excellent ability to quickly build trusting relationships
  • Highly experienced in making independent, risk-based decisions, including within time-pressured, crisis management situations
  • Enjoys analysing data from various sources to ensure excellent care provision and to facilitate service users' to make fully informed care decisions
  • Always seeking to improve service user outcomes through use of quality improvement initiatives & feedback analysis
  • Highly practised in culturally sensitive care delivery
  • Proficient IT skills; well-versed in maintaining clear and accurate digital records
  • Confident autonomous practitioner - able to manage time and workload effectively, ensure KPIs are met, and with experience in assurance and quality management processes to ensure service improvement
  • Excellent collaborative work ethic

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Midwife

Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
01.2016 - Current

Midwife

Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust
06.2012 - 12.2015

Midwife

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
01.2010 - 05.2012

Bachelor of Science - Midwifery

Kingston University
09.2006 - 09.2009

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