I love
- gardening,
- walking with my dog,
- good food and eating out
- Reading
- going to the cinema and theatre
- Creative activities
Karen Padley
HEANOR,Derbyshire
Summary
Results-driven professional with a strong history of successful project management and delivering high-quality outcomes through effective leadership and team motivation. Skilled in collaborating with stakeholders to identify requirements and ensure exceptional service delivery. Experienced trainer and educator, adept at enhancing team capabilities and performance.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
Work History
Vicar
Church of England
05.2004 - 03.2026
- Collaborated with team and four churches to achieve targeted results through strategic planning and execution.
- Managed complaints with calm, clear communication to facilitate effective problem-solving.
- Ensured clean and safe working environments by conducting thorough risk assessments and overseeing building maintenance.
- Achieved service time and quality targets within parish settings through effective project management and resource allocation.
- Engaged with parishioners to identify needs and enhance service delivery.
- Identified issues, analysed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Cultivated and maintained courteous and effective working relationships with diverse individuals across various age groups.
- Facilitated resolution of individual and group queries through adept communication, delivering step-by-step solutions.
- Managed group and individual concerns while escalating major issues to appropriate departments, including safeguarding.
- Picked up additional tasks to aid team success.
- Enhanced working relationships by spearheading team-building activities and facilitating meetings.
- Attended to individuals to understand requests and address concerns effectively.
- Demonstrated consistent hard work and dedication to achieve results and improve operations.
- Assisted in training and mentoring volunteers to enhance team performance.
Facilitated youth groups and adult groups across various age ranges.
Implemented safer recruitment policies to ensure volunteer safety. - Met schedule using excellent planning and coordination skills.
- Maximised customer engagement and satisfaction by delivering excellent customer service.
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Nottingham community helath
Nottingham
03.1996 - 09.1998
- Administered comprehensive oral, topical, and intravenous treatments, demonstrating proactive patient care management in a community setting.
- Monitored patient pain and discomfort to assess needs for therapies or painkilling drugs. Provided palliative care and organised how this could be facilitated in the community.
- Addressed and answered questions for families regarding patient treatment, health and progress. As this was in the early days of HIV diagnosis, this often was a complex issue due to family breakdown and fear.
- Managed patient care coordination in collaboration with multidisciplinary health professionals, ensuring cohesive community care processes.
- Consulted with health professionals across disciplines to coordinate successful treatments, for example, GPs, consultants, and specialist nurses from other teams.
- Supervised, trained and mentored new nurses on nursing requirements and procedures. I trained district nurses on HIV care and so facilitated care in the community for terminally ill patients.
- Developed and executed care and rehabilitation plans in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to enhance patient recovery outcomes.
- Performed in-depth prevention assessments, maintaining patient health and safety.
- Evaluated patients in their homes to assess conditions and monitor progress against treatment goals.
- Assessed patient pain and discomfort and developed mitigation strategies to minimise issues impacting recovery.
- Implemented infection control measures to enhance safety and compliance within community settings.
- Developed comprehensive care plans meeting patients' biological, social and psychological needs.
- Delivered specialist nursing care in emergency situations, demonstrating quick decision-making and expert clinical skills.
- Organised transfer of care across various healthcare settings with patients and carers.
- Collated data to assess overall patient records, maintaining strict confidentiality and respect.
- Partnered with patients and family members to deliver current, accurate information about conditions and care.
- Provided emotional support and counselling to patients and their families, facilitating coping strategies for illness management.
- Fostered and gained patient trust and cooperation by developing collaborative therapeutic relationships during treatment.
- Advocated for patients' rights and needs, working closely with healthcare providers to ensure comprehensive care delivery.
- Used broad knowledge, clinical experience and critical thinking to determine diagnoses of patients, practising accuracy in assessment findings.
- Assessed patient wellbeing to create detailed management plans for cohesive care and improve health.
- Helped plan and deliver health education programmes targeted in specific communities or patient groups.
- Coordinated discharge planning, ensuring patients received necessary follow-up care and support services post-hospitalisation.
- Conducted patient assessments to identify care needs, monitor progress, and adjust care plans as necessary.
- Collaborated with healthcare professionals across disciplines to streamline care coordination, reducing hospital readmission rates.
- Enhance workplace safety standards in domestic environments and implement environmental practices to mitigate accidents and injuries.
- Operated medical equipment for patient monitoring in both non-invasive and invasive procedures.
Assisted in writing policies governing equipment use.
Ensured safe handling of medical devices to maintain patient safety. - Educated patients and families on disease management, medication regimes, and lifestyle adjustments to support health and wellbeing.
- Collaborated with patient care units to improve patient experience and deliver better outcomes.
- Engaged in continuous professional development to stay abreast of advancements in nursing practice and healthcare technology.
- Identified and scheduled training requirements for volunteers, carers and colleagues to improve patient safety and quality of care.
- Participated in clinical audits and research projects, collecting data to improve the quality of nursing care and patient outcomes.
- Designed personalised rehabilitation plans to help patients achieve speedy recoveries.
- Facilitated patient mobility and physical comfort through expert pain management and therapeutic interventions.
- Provided advice using wide range of theories and evidence to address complicated healthcare needs for patients.
- Scheduled meetings with families of patients to explain benefits, risks and projected outcomes of proposed treatments.
Community Staff Nurse
Nottingham community health
Nottingham
03.1993 - 02.1996
- Engaged in continuous professional development to enhance nursing knowledge and skills.
- Fostered and gained patient trust and cooperation by developing collaborative therapeutic relationships during treatment.
- Assessed patient health needs and developed care plans tailored to individual requirements.
- Cleaned and dressed wounds to avoid infection and provide protection, following health and safety standards.
- Checked blood pressure, temperature and heart rate of patients to assess vital signs and monitor condition.
- Partnered with patients and family members to deliver current, accurate information about conditions and care.
- Trained staff members in administering catheter and continence care, wound care and intravenous drip administration.
- Designed personalised rehabilitation plans to help patients achieve speedy recoveries.
- Maintained accurate patient records, documenting care provided and outcomes achieved.
- Provided wound care, including dressing changes, and monitored for signs of infection.
- Demonstrated empathy, kindness and respect for patients through collaborative care to build trust, relieve anxiety and improve health outcomes.
- Administered medications, injections, and treatments as prescribed by healthcare professionals.
- Participated in community health initiatives, promoting wellness and preventive care.
- Reviewed and updated patient care policies to reflect current best practices and regulations.
- Provided exceptional evidence-based and person-centred care to patients to improve outcomes and improve quality service.
- Monitored patient progress and adjusted care plans in response to changing health status.
- Advocated for patient rights and ensured confidentiality in all professional interactions.
- Instructed patients and family members on daily tasks and care needs to improve continuity of care.
- Implemented infection control measures to protect patients, staff, and the community.
- Supported patients with chronic conditions, offering guidance on management techniques.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate patient care across various settings.
- Administered oral, topical and intravenous medications based on patient symptomatology and treatment plans.
- Inspected, cleaned and dressed patient wounds for optimum healing.
- Responded promptly to emergency situations to deliver life-saving care and stabilise patients for additional treatments.
- Educated patients and families on health maintenance and disease prevention strategies.
- Utilised advanced communication skills to build rapport with patients and their families.
- Conducted home visits to assess environmental factors affecting patient health.
- Inducted nursing students and preceptorship staff, thoroughly readying them for daily nursing practice.
- Monitored patient pain and discomfort to assess needs for therapies or painkilling drugs.
- Addressed and answered questions for families regarding patient treatment, health and progress.
- Assessed level of patient pain and discomfort to provide therapeutic measures and painkillers.
- Coordinated patient care in consultation with multidisciplinary team of health professionals.
- Delivered palliative care, focusing on pain relief and quality of life improvement.
- Performed in-home call outs for patients with chronic and long term illnesses to alleviate symptoms and plan next course of treatment.
- Kept unit and stations well-stocked with necessary supplies for timely clinical care.
- Organised transfer of care across various healthcare settings with patients and carers.
- Assigned staff workload based on patient requests and priorities, maintaining smooth-running operations.
- Scheduled and coordinated rota and daily tasks to establish smooth work shifts and provide qualified staff during peak hours.
Registered Nurse
Nottingham University Hospitals
Nottingham
07.1989 - 03.1993
- Administered medications orally, rectally, intramuscularly, subcutaneously and via IV therapy.
- Maintained a safe, clean, and comfortable environment for patients, adhering to infection-control policies.
- Administered prescribed medications to patients and monitored responses to address any adverse reactions.
- Performed wound care procedures, applying dressings and monitoring healing processes.
- Actively promoted best nursing practices, leading by example in providing accurate, prompt patient provisions.
- Administered medications and treatments to patients following prescribed healthcare plans.
- Maintained accurate patient records, documenting care provided and progress observed.
- Monitored vital signs and symptoms, responding promptly to any indications of deterioration.
- Responded to life-threatening emergencies.
- Delivered excellent care and management of acute and chronic pain.
- Performed blood and blood product transfusions and intravenous infusions.
- Monitored patient pain and discomfort to assess needs for therapies or painkilling drugs.
- Administered CPR following Basic Life Support for Health Care Provider during emergency cases to patients undergoing cardiac arrest.
- Demonstrated compassionate communication skills, empathetically delivering difficult news to patients and families.
- Educated family members about proper care procedures.
- Monitored patient conditions closely, reporting and recording signs of deterioration for swift action.
- Assisted nurses and patients with admission process.
- Facilitated therapeutic communication, building rapport with patients to support mental and emotional well-being.
- Collected lab specimens, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and lab results.
- Managed emergency situations, delivering critical care interventions in high-pressure environments.
- Performed in-depth prevention assessments, maintaining patient health and safety.
- Delivered palliative care, providing comfort and support to patients in end-of-life stages.
- Led patient handovers, communicating essential information to colleagues at shift changes.
- Participated in professional development sessions to stay updated with nursing best practices and legislations.
- Led junior nurses and healthcare assistants, offering guidance and support to improve patient care.
- Planned and implemented individualised care plans, unit workflow strategies and defined priorities.
- Implemented evidence-based nursing practices to enhance the quality of patient care.
- Supervised junior nurses and healthcare assistants, providing guidance and professional development.
- Worked with a consistently positive, friendly bedside manner to enhance patient experiences during difficult times.
- Facilitated discharge planning, preparing patients for return home and coordinating with community services.
- Prepared patients for clinical procedures, providing reassurance and practical advice to ease concerns.
- Bathed, changed and fed disabled patients to ease comfort.
- Recorded patient food intake and nutritional needs, liaising with dietitians to tailor meal plans.
- Managed stock levels of ward supplies, ordering new stock to avoid shortages impacting patient care.
Student Nurse
Nottingham University Hospitals
Nottingham
08.1986 - 07.1989
- Monitored vital signs, documenting changes to support patient health assessments.
- Built academic experiences through practical application of skills and critical thinking.
- Administered oral and injectable medications under supervision, following strict protocols.
- Assisted nursing staff with patient admission, discharge and transfer.
- Assisted registered nurses with daily care routines, enhancing patient comfort and safety.
- Maintained safe and comfortable environment for patients through regular cleaning and sanitising.
- Maintained hygienic ward environments, adhering to infection control standards.
- Communicated compassionately with patients and families, offering emotional support.
- Participated in ward rounds, providing updates on patient progress to healthcare professionals.
- Inspected, cleaned and dressed patient wounds for optimum healing.
- Managed patient documentation, accurately recording treatments and responses.
- Acquired new skills by shadowing senior staff.
- Utilised equipment safely for patient care as directed by nursing staff.
- Supported medical staff to monitor and record patient status.
- Carefully read patient information to check for special conditions.
- Followed plan of care provided by nursing staff to assist patient processes and outcomes.
- Observed and reported symptoms and conditions to registered nurses, aiding in early intervention.
- Assisted in minor surgical procedures, providing necessary instruments and support.
- Performed procedures consistent with standards set forth by school of nursing and completed education level.
- Retrieved medications from pharmacy and delivered to nurse or secured location determined by supervisor.
- Collected patient specimens and transported to lab for processing.
- Responded to patient emergencies, demonstrating quick decision-making skills.
- Addressed and answered questions for families regarding patient treatment, health and progress.
- Assigned staff workload based on patient requests and priorities, maintaining smooth-running operations.
Education
Master of Arts - Theology
The Open University
Nottingham, 01-2000
Nursing leading to registration
School Of Nursing
NOttingham01-1989
A-Levels - A levels
Grammar School
Spilsby, LIN01-1986
GCSEs (O levels and CSEs) - O Levels
Grammar school
Spilsby, LIN01-1984
Skills
- Risk assessment
- Project management
- Customer engagement
- Team collaboration
- Strategic planning
- Care coordination
- Effective communication with effective and diverse education
- Volunteer training
- Therapeutic relationships
- Continuous professional development
- Problem-solving
- Willingness to learn
- Leadership
- Active listening
- Calm under pressure
- Team building
- Team leadership and motivation
- Public speaking
- Commitment to excellence
- Analytical and critical thinking
- People focused
- Health and safety awareness
- Task collaboration
- MS Office Suite
- Complaint handling and resolution
- Public Relations
- Project planning and coordination
- Deadline management
Interests
Timeline
Vicar
Church of England
05.2004 - 03.2026
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Nottingham community helath
03.1996 - 09.1998
Community Staff Nurse
Nottingham community health
03.1993 - 02.1996
Registered Nurse
Nottingham University Hospitals
07.1989 - 03.1993
Student Nurse
Nottingham University Hospitals
08.1986 - 07.1989
Master of Arts - Theology
The Open University
Nursing leading to registration
School Of Nursing
A-Levels - A levels
Grammar School
GCSEs (O levels and CSEs) - O Levels
Grammar school