What makes EFL Teacher Nurse UK different to other platforms?

Launching my own teaching business has been an exciting new step for me but a question that has niggled me since...

'How can I effectively describe my services in a short product description?'

The answer became obvious, 'write a blog post' so here I am!

Firstly, I want to give you a little bit of context about my background in healthcare. I qualified as a paediatric nurse back in 2000 and I worked on busy medical wards for the first few years to consolidate my practice. I decided to move to London from Belfast in 2003 and this is where I began working in NICU. I spent the next six years working in a busy central London tertiary unit until I realised I had a flair for teaching. I was keen to specialise in nursing education and this led me to a new job in Manchester as a practice educator, supporting multi-disciplinary pre-registration students on clinical placements and working directly with partner universities. During this time I completed my Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and I gained lots of new skills and experience in this more strategic role, however, I missed the clinical side of nursing.

After six years, I returned to the same NICU in London only this time as a clinical nurse educator, which I absolutely loved as I got the best of both worlds. My desire to work abroad never left me though, so in 2017 I was delighted to be offered a job in a state of the art greenfield hospital in Doha, Qatar as a NICU nurse educator. This was a steep learning curve for me adapting to new ways of delivering healthcare and supporting clinical staff outside of the NHS, nevertheless, I gained so much from this experience both personally and professionally. I even diversified further whilst here and became the inaugural transfusion safety nurse, which I did until I left Doha in 2021.

As a side note, if you're reading this and are in a quandary about working overseas, I highly recommend going for it!

So from all of this to English teacher? I suppose it seems like a huge leap, but for me it was a logical next step. I always dreamed of being my own boss so I could work creatively and without the constraints of organisational policy. Hence, I took the plunge in 2021 and left healthcare to become an English language teacher. I've spent the last four years working online and in a local language school honing my English skills, whilst also completing a CELTA qualification to bolster my teaching credibility.

All those years of designing courses, assessing competence and supporting struggling learners had not gone to waste, as these were essential and transferable skills. Furthermore, I had been able to bring together my two areas of expertise (Healthcare & English) and create EFL Teacher Nurse UK.

I have done my research and there are not many (if any) English teachers with my level of clinical expertise. I'm currently working with doctors and nurses from many different countries and the content of the lessons are wide-ranging. In the last month I've listened to their presentations and gave constructive feedback on their grammar & pronunciation, discussed complex case studies and asked pertinent questions to enable reflection and rans lots of OET/IELTS lessons.

I'm only starting out so I anticipate this will grow and evolve over time and I'm extremely excited about my new adventure. I do fully appreciate that it can feel daunting not knowing where to invest to ensure your learning needs are being met so why not book a free introduction call with me today, there's no obligation to commit. Rest assured that I aim to promote a friendly and relaxed learning environment and I adapt my teaching style to meet the learner’s needs, being in adult education for so long means I'm very skilled at doing this.

If you've reached this point, I'm very grateful that you've taken the time to read my first blog post.

I'm really looking forward to hearing from you.

All the best, Roisin!

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