Fiona Logan, MSc

Experience

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  Papworth Trust

  Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

  Bank Youth Sessional Worker

  To assist with the smooth running of a respite activity club held during school holidays for children with special needs. I particularly supported one child with severe autism alongside ensuring other children enjoyed the activities provided.

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  Access All Care and Training Solutions Limited

  Oct 2015 - Jan 2018

  Carer

  To work out in the community to support children with special needs and their families. I was able to gain experience with a wide range of disorders including physical disabilities, sensory impairments, intellectual and developmental disabilities and other conditions such as epilepsy.

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  PARC (Essex)

  Dec 2015 - Aug 2016

  Playworker

  The respite club I was working at was handed over to a different charity. To assist with the smooth running of a respite activity club held during school holidays for children with special needs. I particularly supported one child with severe autism alongside ensuring other children enjoyed the activities provided.

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  University of East London

  Jun 2016 - Sept 2016

  Research Assistant Internship

  To recruit participants and conduct a research experiment involving measures using EEG and ECG. Participants were between 6 and 8 months and were required to view a selection of paradigms. This stud has since been written up and submitted for journal publishing.

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  SNAAP (Special Needs Acitivities and Advisory Project)

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2018

  Play Support Worker

  To support the smooth running of a respite club that ran during the easter and summer holidays for children with severe special needs. This involved engaging children in activities such as soft play and the sensory room alongside arts and crafts and outdoor games.

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  Superior Healthcare Group - Excellence in Care

  Oct 2017 - Jan 2018

  Complex Care Support Worker

  Working out in the community to support a child with down syndrome and other complications linked to the disorder.

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  Kent County Council

  Mar 2018 - Jan 2019

  Children's Residential Worker

  To assist with the smooth running of a children's respite home that provides a service for those with more severe special needs and their families. There is a focus on child-led practice and supporting the children in all aspects including promoting daily living skills.

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  Home Farm Primary School

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2019

  To support the learning and achievements of two pupils who had a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. I monitored their blood sugars constantly throughout the school day and calculated the amount of carbohydrate intake at lunchtime to ensure the correct insulin dose was administered. I also treated the pupils for both hyperglycaemia and hypoglycaemia and supported their learning throughout this time. To help run an after-school club based within a mainstream primary school. This involves helping to plan and set-up activities and prepare food for the children.

  • Learning Support Assistant

    Apr 2019 - Sept 2019

  • After-School Club Assistant

    Sept 2018 - Sept 2019
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  Lexden Springs School

  Sept 2018 - Apr 2019

  Co-Educator

  To support children with moderate to severe special needs within a KS1 class to obtain their learning targets and assist with socialisation. I also help to engage children in all aspects of the curriculum. In addition, I am also a therapy link worker for the class. This involves working closely with the school’s speech and language therapist and OT to ensure therapies and interventions are implemented within the classroom alongside weekly therapy sessions.

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  Carebase

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  Care Assistant

  I took this role in order to gain experience supporting those in various different stages of dementia. I supported the residents with anything they needed including personal care, and encouraging the participation in various activities throughout the day. I gained experience in working with residential, dementia and patients requiring nurse-level interventions.

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  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

  Oct 2019 - Aug 2021

  Within this role, I support other clinical research staff to conduct a variety of research trials and studies within the hospital setting. This often involves collecting data in a variety of ways including recording ECGs, processing blood samples in the laboratory, and inputting data in order for analysis to be undertaken. More recently I have been involved with a number of studies into COVID-19 commissioned by the World Health Organisation and other institutions throughout the UK. This role involved caring for patients on an acute medical ward. Patients were admitted onto the ward with a variety of different conditions across many area of medicine including respiratory, geriatric and endocrine. I learned a variety of new skills including taking clinical observations, detecting the deteriorating patient, and aspects of end of life care within a hospital setting.

  • Clinical Research Assistant

    Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Healthcare Assistant

    Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
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  NHS Professionals

  Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

  Healthcare Assistant

  This role allows me to pick up healthcare assistant shifts in a variety of different locations across the hospital. This is a fantastic learning opportunity for me to gain knowledge across a multitude of specialities. My responsibilities change depending on which ward or area I work. However, I would normally take clinical observations, test blood sugars and support patients with personal care.

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  Illingworth Research Group (a Syneos Health Company)

  Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

  Research Nursing Project Coordinator
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  PPD

  Nov 2022 - now

  • Home Trial Services (HTS) Project Coordinator

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Assistant CRA

    Nov 2022 - Dec 2023