Profile

My CV

• Education:

  I have lived most of my life in Poland and so I went there to High School no 13 in Szczecin and did my Bachelor Degree at Bialystok University of Technology.

  I also went on a 1-year “Erasmus” student exchange programme (EU funded) when I was on the 2nd year of uni.

  Later I moved to London to do my MSc degree at Imperial College London.

  And a few years later I did another MSc programme at King’s College London, funded by the Health Education Engand as part of my Healthcare Scientist Training Programme.

• Qualifications:

  – “Matura” – a Polish equivalent of A-levels in Biology, Chemistry and Physics gained at 18 years old
  – BSc diploma in Biomedical Engineering at 22 years old
  – MSc diploma in Biomedical Engineering, specialising in Biomedical Materials at 23 years old
  – MSc diploma in Clinical Sciences (Clinical Engineering) at 28 years old.

• Work History:

  Back when I was still in high school I used to different summer jobs to save money: a hostess in a supermarket (giving out samples of cakes and biscuits), serving on a till in a shop, a gardener, door-to-door flyer distributor.

  Once at university I was tutoring maths and Polish to a girl and I also worked as a waitress at the restaurant.

  When I first came to England I was working 7 days a week for 8 months to save enough money to pay for my university tuition. I worked at Primark, as a waitress at a restaurant in London, as a shop assistant at the Tower of London souvenir shop and at the Kensington Palace shop, a clerk in a warehouse office, a picker-packer for a book warehouse… it was tough and my life was not very fun during that period but I managed to save enough money to pay for my MSc course in cash and be a student loan free.

  My Healthcare Scientist training with the NHS was an “on-the-job” training – my university fees and my salary was paid.

  Since I qualified as a Healthcare Scientist (in Clinical Engineering) I have been working in different roles for the NHS.

• Current Job:

  Currently I work one day a week in a hospital in Clinical Engineering department which looks after hospital’s medical equipment, such as patient monitors, thermometers, defibrillators, anaesthetic machines, lasers, Ultrasounds, etc. My role is to help hospital choose the right equipment for what doctors and nurses want to use it for. I write protocols and procedures for our clinical engineering technicians on how to service and test equipment. I do risk assessments on the devices. I also investigate incidents that involve medical equipment – why it happened, and how can we make sure it won’t happen again.

  The other 4 days a week I work in organisation called NHS England and Improvement where I am working on a project to develop a new service in community pharmacies that will help fight antimicrobial resistance.