Sarah J Candlishemail:

Current Employment

Sep 1997 – OngoingPersonal Tutor

Teaching English Literature and Language to GCSE students, Sociology and Philosophy at A2 and AS level and also English as an additional language

Previous Employment

Sep 2009 – Aug 2011GRTP – Trainee Teacher – St John’s Catholic Comprehensive, Kent

Trained with Canterbury Christchurch in supernumerary position. Planned and delivered lessons to students at keystages 3 and 4. Dealt regularly with reporting and assessing of students. Liaised with all other departments to optimise learning for all students. Established good relations with both staff and students.

Gained QTS July 2011.

Sep 2007 – Aug 2009Pastoral Manager – St John’s Catholic Comprehensive, Kent

Oversee pastoral issues concerning children and their families of Key Stage 3. Liaise with departments within the school as well as outside agencies. Provide lesson cover when required. Deal with discipline and attendance issues. Maintain good standards of behaviour in the pupils.

CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) – full disclosure undertaken

Nov 2003 – Aug 2007 Researcher Assistant– King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London

Assist clinicians with research applications for local and national ethics committees, draft protocols for research; grant applications; familiar with ethics guidelines; advise MSc students and Neurophysiology Technicians on research protocols and applications; liaise with overseas clinicians who wish to attend meetings or to study in the UK (part time – 1 day per week)

Jan 2001 – Aug 2007Programme Manager - Kent & CanterburyHospital, Canterbury, Kent

Co-ordinate epilepsy research projects; liaise with patients and clinicians; assist with grant applications; maintain budgets; design/prepare posters for local, national and international meetings; ensure accurate data for presentation; undertake drug audits in new anti-epileptic medication. Line-manager to research secretary, clinical research fellow and research assistant. Established excellent links within East Kent Trust as well as other hospitals in the Southeast area (part time – 2 days per week)

Jul 2006 – Nov 2006Research Associate – University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

Project coordinator for EU funded project, EAAD (European Alliance Against Depression, England). Conference organising, grant applications, report writing, undertaking of small research projects, liaise with European project leads (part time – 2 days per week)

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003Honorary Research Assistant – Institute of Psychiatry, London

Collecting data for project based at Kent and CanterburyHospital

Nov 2000 – Dec 2000Kemp Temping Agency, Kent

Short term contracts using office skills

July 2000 – Nov 2000Office Manager – Quest Investigations Limited, London

Report writing, maintaining files of clients, liasing with operatives, ensuring strict levels of confidentiality surrounding personnel and client security at all times

Jan 2000 – July 2000 Administrator – Workroute, Kent

Assisting clients with job searches, aiding advisors in paperwork and caseloads, ensuring accurate data records

Sep 1999 – Dec 1999 Project Assistant – Balfour Beatty (BBRML), Kent

General assistant to engineers: maintaining survey sheets, data inputting

Feb 1998 – Aug 1999 Research Administrator – CSAG Epilepsy Study, Buckinghamshire

Administration of project; liasing with medics, organising and attending meetings with Department of Health, clinicians and patients, ensuring accurate and up-to-date data sheets, analysis of data, report writing

Apr 1996 – Apr 1997Research Assistant – National Society for Epilepsy, Buckinghamshire

Undertaking local audit about epilepsy nurse training course. Designed questionnaire and collated results. Combined with some teaching about epilepsy.

Oct 1993 – Jan 1998Care Assistant – National Society for Epilepsy, Buckinghamshire

Educationi-to-i Online TEFL - with additional Grammar Module and Business English

University of Kent at Canterbury – MSc Health Services Research (Year 1.5 completed of 2 year part time course. Because of redundancy was unable to complete)

AmershamCollege – C&G 730 Teaching Adult & Further Education Certificate Part I

BucksUniversityCollege – BSc (Hons) Sociology & Applied Social Studies

WoolwichCollege – English Literature ‘A’-Level, Sociology ‘A’-Level

St JohnsRCSchool, Gravesend – English Literature, English Language, Maths, Art, ‘O’level

Oral Presentations:

Stroke: An Assessment of the Stroke Information Pack. Presented at Regional Stroke Meeting, March 2003

Poster Presentations:

To assess the use of Levetiracetam (LEV) in the clinical setting through an audit of 102 consecutive patients with epilepsy. S Candlish, L Nashef, S Xavier. Poster presentation at the Congress of Epileptology, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2003

Audit of Levetiracetam Prescribing. S Candlish, L Nashef. Poster presentation at the Congress of Epileptology, Madrid, Spain, October 2002

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, review of patients being treated in East Kent. S Candlish, J Bland et al. Local R&D Meeting, March 2002

Hold full, cleanDriving Licence and have use of own car

References:available on request

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