Andrew McMurray

Diploma in Higher Education (Masters Level) at University of Birmingham

Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

About

Experience

  • Teaching Assistant at Single centre academy
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    Helping students improve their English speaking within a classroom environment. These classes ranged from 7 year olds up to adults. I helped prepare the adults for their English speaking Cambridge exams and guided the children through their workbooks with interactive games and other teaching techniques.

  • Anaesthesia Associate at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
    Oct 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 9 mos

    Pre-operatively assess patients for fitness of surgery on a daily basis. • Routinely care for patients undergoing anaesthesia intra-operatively. • Monitor and respond to patients needs intra-operatively. • Care for the patient in the post –operative phase, closely liaising with the recovery staff and wider team. • Participate routinely at weekends in the speciality of trauma surgery. • Continuous teaching of junior doctors, nurses and ward staff. • Current Advanced Support Life (ALS) trained. • Undertaking and delivering audits within the Anaesthetic department. • Preparing, delivering and teaching an anaesthetic course for scrub nurses to undertake anaesthetic duties within the wider theatre department. This further enhanced staffing flexibility. • Preparing and presenting regionally how too successfully implement new AA’s into an anaesthetic department.

  • Physicians Assistant Anaesthesia at Colchester General Hospital
    Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

  • Senior theatre practitioner at NHS
    Oct 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 9 mos

    Senior theatre practitioner specialising in the scrubbed and anaesthetic role. Extra duties include Peripheral Insertion of Central Catheters (PICC) and assisting as a qualified surgical first assistant. Recently undertaken the mentorship preparation module, allowing teaching of students and members of the theatre team. A module in adult acute care has also been completed.

  • Theatre practitioner at Pulse Community Healthcare
    Apr 2012 - Oct 2012 · 7 mos