Sara Elphinstone

Studio Yoga instructor, planning yoga sequences, teaching regular weekly classes of up to 20 students, managing student bookings, studio keyholder.

Managing incoming emails, providing advice to clients, using software package to schedule studio classes, manage class numbers and process payment schemes, discounts and offers. General studio reception duties and store stock management.

Providing breastfeeding support and counselling to mothers at face to face meetings, via email and telephone. Facilitating group discussion at monthly meetings. Signposting mothers on to healthcare services when required. Supporting the running of the Oxfordshire group and liaising with the wider national organisation.

Staff Nurse on Emergency Assessment Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital. Duties included admission and ongoing assessment and observations of patients, ECGs, venepuncture and cannulation. Basic nursing care, catheterisation, wound care, drug administration including IV and blood transfusion. Therapeutic relationship and rapport with patients, providing communication and support to relatives and working as a member of a multidisciplinary team. Completing patients notes and records and facilitating patient transfers and discharges.