A reliable, skilled and experienced editorial professional

I have worked as a professional writer, editor and editorial project manager since graduating from the University of Reading in 2000. I was ostensibly studying Politics and International Relations. I spent the majority of my time working on the student newspaper.

After university I joined Dr Foster Ltd, where I was a writer and researcher on the first Good Hospital Guide. I spent four years at the company, and was promoted twice.

My next role was at The Learning Clinic Ltd (subsequently known as Vitalpac, and now part of System C), a healthcare technology company. Here I wrote e-learning material for healthcare professionals and promotional material for the company's products.

I then moved to Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, where I spent two and a half years as internal communications manager. While at the trust, I was nominated for a staff recognition award and asked to contribute to an Oxford University Press book on clinical governance. My chapter centred on how to create effective patient information literature.

After being invited back to The Learning Clinic, where I worked as editorial manager, I launched a freelance career in 2012. This has afforded me the opportunity to work with a wide range of healthcare and public sector/not-for-profit clients, as well as to write and edit content about cycle sport – one of my main interests.

I am a member of the National Union of Journalists (London Freelance Branch) and of the parliamentary branch of Prospect, of the Medical Journalists' Association, the IPSE (The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) and The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, and am an associate member of The Royal Society of Medicine.

Outside of my work, but closely connected to it, I have previously volunteered for Bookmark and for First Story.

I live in south London but reluctantly cross the river to get to my office, which is located in Blackfriars. In my spare time I'm a keen cinema and gig goer; a video gamer; and a purveyor of an ever-lengthening prestige TV watchlist.

Special skills

• Delivering compelling content on time, and with apostrophes in all the right places

• Deep understanding of what editors need from a freelancer, developed during my own days of commissioning freelance support

• Crafting commercially-backed editorial which remains compelling to readers while meeting the needs of sponsors

• Making complex material accessible to a range of audiences

• A warm and sensitive interviewing style