Julie is a highly experienced clinical practitioner with over 16 years of working in diverse settings across hospital, primary care, urgent care, walk-in centres, and minor illness settings alongside community/home visits. Julie is responsible for the triage, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of clients with a wide variety of undifferentiated conditions.

This experience enables Julie to act as an autonomous practitioner, including:

• Referring to specialists when indicated
• Issuing appropriate medication under Patient Group Directions (PGD)
• Triage of patients determining level of urgency and delivering immediate treatment where required
• Supporting junior colleagues and mentoring students

Julie also has experience of working within His Majesty’s Young Offenders Institution including:

• Attending regular emergency situations within a high security young offenders prison including violent attacks, self-harm and accidental drug overdose
• Assessed healthcare needs for newly arrived residents
• Attended prison meetings for individual residents as health professional representative
• Participated in daily drug administration
• Responded to prison staff concerns regarding individual wellbeing
• Attended daily MDT meetings with psychiatry, medical and prison staff

As a TG Associate, Julie provides Liability and Short Form Reports for both claimants and defendants, reporting on standards of nursing care, acceptable practice and risk management. Those areas include errors in medication, failure or delay in diagnosis, treatment or referral and failure to seek specialist advice or provide red flag indicators to patients.