Meet the Ambassadors

Hello, my name is Nick and for the past 3 years I have worked as an Acute Care Practitioner within GP surgery. I also work part time as a Senior Lecturer in Physician Associate studies.

I started my career with EMAS in 2003 and qualified as a Paramedic.  I spent 5 years working as an Emergency Care Practitioner and Clinical Service Lead within an urgent care centre and gained the PGCert in Advanced Practice in Primary Urgent Care.

Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my family, rock climbing and DIY.

I am hoping to develop awareness of paramedics within primary care and expand the role within Derbyshire.

I am a Physician Associate who qualified in April 2018 from Sheffield Hallam University. I recently joined Lister House GP surgery in Derbyshire. Alongside my clinical work I  have been a Physician Assocaite Ambassador for Yorkshire, Humber Coast and Vale. I have been able to make a real impact with the progression of the PA role, focusing on improving PA posts within Primary Care and I look forward to expanding the role within Derbyshire.

Hello my name is Isobel I have worked as a pharmacist in the NHS for over 16 years now and prior to that I worked my way through Boots the Chemists in various management roles. I started as a practice pharmacist at Sheffield South West PCT and moved through the organisations as they changed right through to Sheffield CCG where one of my roles was Pre Registration tutor to the trainee pharmacists that came to us for placements. I have in the past also been a local tutor for Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) helping to develop local pharmacy workforce.

My new role at Chesterfield and Dronfield Primary Care Network (PCN) as Lead Senior Clinical Pharmacist has involved recruiting a new team of pharmacists (and soon technicians) to provide a pharmacy service to a population of over 140000 patients. The newly developing team and service provides the opportunity for development of all the pharmacists and technicians involved. As we mature we are keen to develop the role of the PCN pharmacy team to enhance patient care and health outcomes benefiting the patients, practices and ironing out health inequalities.

We will not only be supporting the training of our own new team but have a trainee pharmacist joining our PCN and hope to increase numbers of trainees as time goes on – growing our own workforce!

Outside of work I enjoy playing netball (not very well), spending time with my teenage daughter, travelling when time and funds (and COVID) allow and have recently developed a love of gardening thanks to COVID!

Julia trained as a nurse in Cardiff qualifying in 1990.  She started working in primary care in 2002 and completed an MSc in Advanced Practice.

Having always had an interest in education she became an educational lead at a training practice with multiple trainees.  This led to her being invited to train as a GP Trainer and she completed the PG Cert in Medical Education. She now also works a GP Training Programme Director.

Julia is a keen supporter of interprofessional education. She leads on local and national ACP work and is aware of the many opportunities and challenges this presents to primary care.

I am chairing the steering group for the development of a career framework for nurses working in primary care

Co-chairing the steering group for the Multi-professional Advanced Practice Core Credentials Framework for Primary Care

Other work streams include;

Advanced practice training pathways

Clinical Supervision for advanced roles in primary care

Delivering the 26,000 additional roles in primary care – developing the multi-professional team,