Experience

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  Nationwide building society

  Oct 2007 - Feb 2008

  Human resources retail advisor/administrator
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  Phoenix it services

  May 2008 - Jul 2008

  Central purchasing buyer & contractors costs administrator
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  Central tbar

  Dec 2008 - Apr 2010

  Full time bar staff
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  Helihub ltd.

  Jun 2009 - Oct 2009

  Operations manager & co-founder
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  Two seasons

  Oct 2009 - Nov 2009

  Sales assistant
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  Easywebrecruitment

  May 2010 - Sept 2011

  Resource executive
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  The columbo group

  Jun 2010 - Sept 2010

  Bookings manager & press assistant
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  Abode hotels and michael caines restaurants

  Nov 2011 - May 2013

  Fine dining host, cafe bar assistant, well house assistant
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  Kando, verbier

  Jan 2012 - Apr 2014

  Operations & events manager

  A luxury event management company specialising in once in a lifetime experiences. Responsible for liaising with clients, running events, managing staff, networking, and brand profile.

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  Dartmoor kitchen

  May 2013 - May 2017

  Winner of National Wedding Caterer of the Year 2015 at the Wedding Industry Awards. Responsible for managing events, event set-up, directing teams of staff and liaising with suppliers. A Wedding and Event Catering company. Responsible for new business development, marketing, website maintenance, and social media. Whilst here I grew the number of venue clients from 22 to 48, over doubling the sales sources.

  • Maître 'D

    Sept 2012 - May 2017

  • Event Sales Manager

    May 2013 - Dec 2013
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  Meraki events

  Apr 2014 - Jun 2022

  Event director

  Founder & owner of Meraki Events, planning and running bespoke events. Responsible for all company operations, including marketing and sales. Delivered over 200 events. Managing annual event budgets of circa £2.5 million. Offering tailored event management including corporate events, private parties, and wedding planning / on-the-day wedding coordination.

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  Harriet & victoria co.

  Jun 2014 - Jul 2015

  Front of house manager

  A boutique glamping site at Glastonbury Festival. Responsible for managing staff teams and rotas, hosting high-end clients, and front of house operation.

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  Authoring house

  Jan 2015 - Aug 2018

  Business development & operations manager

  A specialist online recruitment agency, Winners of Best in Documentation Recruitment at CV Magazine's Recruitment Awards 2016. Responsible for operations, business development, company rebranding, website redesign & build, sales, marketing & communications, and client relationship management.

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  Devon and cornwall police federation

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2020

  Marketing & events manager (part time)

  Responsible for all events including training, conferences, and annual dinner - raising £23k for police charities.Headed up all marketing activity including the website, member engagement, quarterly e-magazine, presentations, and social media.

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  Watery fowls ltd

  Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

  Assistant manager

  A part time role that began following the first lockdown and the pausing of the events industry. Helped to recruit and train a new team at this pub/restaurant which was under new management from July 2020. Responsible for implementing operational processes throughout the business, interviewing & training staff, customer engagement, and assisting with some marketing. Other duties include ordering stock, cellar management, stock rotation, writing rotas, and diary management.

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  Nhs imas

  Dec 2020 - Sept 2022

  Programme Manager, and Communications & Engagement Lead at NHS SCO & NHS IMAS. Providing interim resourcing across the NHS at Executive level. Responsible for planning and successful delivery of communications & engagement strategy, managing both internal and external communications within NHS guidelines. Health & Wellbeing advocate for the team. Other portfolio areas include Filemaker (CRM software) development, and working with the Emergency planning/EPRR team at NHS SCO. Working on staffing the National Incident Coordination Centre where the national COVID response, vaccination programme, and EU Exit planning is undertaken for NHS England & Improvement. Side projects include helping to plan and design an EPRR Reservist recruitment, retention, and recognition project, including redesigning a CRM in Filemaker Pro, comms, and designing strategy for future implementation in the case of another major incident.

  • Programme Manager & Communications Lead

    Jun 2021 - Sept 2022

  • Project Management Officer - COVID-19 Support Worker

    Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
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  Women's network for nhs england

  Dec 2021 - May 2023

  National communications co-lead

  This role was alongside my substantive role, co-leading on communications for the Women's Network in the NHS. Advocating for all women and allies across the NHS, influencing equality, diversity and inclusion objectives and policy for NHS England and supporting women across the NHS, promoting their professional and personal development, health and wellbeing, and focus on gender equality.Designed and lead on a communications strategy that saw a 25% increase in membership in the first 6 months of our newly formed Executive team, and 81% increase by the end of our tenure.Managed branding, website creation, newsletter curation, and membership engagement. Show less

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  Futurenhs

  Sept 2022 - now

  Strategic engagement manager

  FutureNHS is an online collaboration platform that allows teams and individuals across healthcare to connect, share, and learn. Responsible for development of comms & engagement strategy, to both internal and external audience, leading team to help improve and increase engagement to enable our users to gain the maximum potential FutureNHS can offer them. Responsible for all internal and external comms. Proud to be part of this dynamic, passionate, forward thinking team of creative innovators and disruptors - making positive change with the ultimate goal of better patient care.Top achievements:- Increased user adoption of the platform, achieving 84% increase in registered users, and a 27% growth in monthly active users through large scale digital engagement external campaigns and internal communications-Developed a comprehensive digital collaboration guide for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), based on user research across 19 ICSs, and launch of digital engagement strategy for ICSs that resulted in a 27% growth in ICS membership-Increased followers on X (Twitter) by 24.8% and LinkedIn by 2348.3% in first year Show less

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  Quiet company

  Feb 2025 - now

  Non executive director

  Independent Board Member for the Quiet Company. This is a 3 year tenure, with a commitment of five meetings are year. Currently writing a new 5 year strategy.