Find out what it's like to work at Evelina London
Hear from staff about their day to day roles, their passions and how they try to make a difference for our patients and their families every day.
October 2024
Davina Wong, consultant anaesthetist
Davina shares how she cares for children and young people who need to have anaesthesia for their surgery or procedure, and how anaesthetists play an important role in patients' perioperative journeys.
October 2024
Dean Josephs, health play assistant
Dean tells us how he helps make hospital fun for children and young people and their families, whether they're visiting for a procedure or staying in hospital for a longer period of time.
October 2024
Poppy Hart, community speech and language therapist
Poppy explains how she works with local schools and families to help children improve their communication.
September 2024
Ashira Simmons, clinical nurse specialist
Learn why Ashira is passionate about helping children and young people to manage their asthma.
July 2024
Lucy Scrimshaw, clinical research fellow
Lucy tells us how she and her team deliver high-quality clinical research trials for children and young people with rare diseases to help give children around the world access to life-changing medicines.
June 2024
Katie Dick and Jackie Francis, cystic fibrosis clinical nurse specialists
Katie and Jackie explain how they care for children and young people with cystic fibrosis, and why it is still so important to raise awareness of the condition.
June 2024
Samah Babiker, consultant paediatric haematologist
As clinical lead for the haemoglobinopathy service at Evelina London Children's Hospital, Samah is passionate about helping children and young people with sickle cell disease to advocate for themselves.
May 2024
Lauren McCann, paediatric respiratory matron
Lauren shares her experience of working across our paediatric respiratory services at Royal Brompton Hospital and Evelina London Children's Hospital, and how she is improving the way we work across both hospitals.
May 2024
Patrick Desmonde, neonatal unit matron
Over his 40-year career Patrick has worked as a midwife, a neontatal nurse, and a matron. He shares why he has never regretted choosing a career in nursing.
April 2024
Monica Franklin, midwife and project manager
Monica has been a midwife for 16 years. Learn about her role as a project manager for the South East London Local Maternity and Neonatal System.
March 2024
Claudia Tye and Hope Blandford, endometriosis clinical nurse specialists
Claudia and Hope tell us about how they're improving care for people with endometriosis, and why it's so important to raise awareness of the condition.
March 2024
Lisa Story, consultant in obstetrics and fetal medicine and senior lecturer at King’s College London
Lisa explains her research into using advanced MRI scans to assess babies before they are born and how what she learns impacts patient care.
February 2024
Bren Cariaga, paediatric theatre nurse
Bren is part of the 'pioneering team' in our children's day surgery unit. He shares what he loves about the unit, from the outer space artwork to the superb training opportunities.
February 2024
Mandy Wan, lead paediatric research pharmacist
Mandy explains how research has grown at Evelina London, so that medicines can become available to more children.
January 2024
Willis Atherley-Bourne, lead counsellor
Willis tells us how he supports the mental health of parents and carers so they can protect the children at the centre of their world.
January 2024
Eloise Lawrence, senior health play specialist
Eloise explains how she supports children and young people who are having tests or scans in our radiology service.
December 2023
Jennifer Baulcomb, educational psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist
Jennifer shares what she learned working with interns on the Pathway to Employment supported internship programme, and why programmes like this are so important.
December 2023
Marash Demnika, administrator
Marash explains how the Pathway to Employment supported internship programme helped him become an administrator for our community services, and what he has learned from being in this role.
December 2023
Emily Foster, complex care clinical nurse specialist
Emily shares how she supports and advocates for children and young people who need to stay in hospital for prolonged periods of time, and how she is inspired by the resilience of the amazing families she works with.
November 2023
Matthew Norridge, head of clinical education
Read about Matthew's passion for supporting people’s professional development and the clinical education and training that is available at Evelina London.
October 2023
Pauline Martin, patient access coordinator
Pauline tells us why she is proud to work in Evelina London community services, and why teaching others about Black history is so important to her.
October 2023
Shadae-Marie Brown, children’s nurse
Shadae-Marie talks about inspiring positive change by celebrating and supporting our black staff and patients. Read about Shadae-Marie's passion for providing safe and effective patient care for all.
October 2023
Nicole Boga, lead medical secretary
Nicole has won multiple awards for her work as a medical secretary at Evelina London. Find out more about Nicole's role and learn about why the cook-off she organises twice a year makes her so proud.
October 2023
Kerry Engelbrecht, neonatal and paediatric occupational therapist
Kerry shares how she helps parents and carers to understand their baby's behavioural cues so that they can nurture their baby’s development.
October 2023
Maya Asir, speech and language therapist
Maya explains how supporting babies' feeding and communication skills can have a huge impact on their development and their families' lives.
September 2023
David Lloyd, consultant in paediatric and fetal cardiology
David is a consultant in paediatric and fetal cardiology at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. He is proud to have established the first unit in the UK to offer a clinical fetal cardiac MRI service as part of routine patient care.
July 2023
Elsa Moro, antenatal and newborn screening coordinator.
Elsa Moro tells us about her experience as a midwife and sonographer, and her current role coordinating six national screening programmes for pregnant women and birthing people and newborns within Guy’s and St Thomas’.
July 2023
Gráinne Walsh, advanced nurse practitioner
Gráinne shares her passions and proudest moments as part of our kidney transplant team.
June 2023
Shirin, play specialist
Shirin is a senior health play specialist at Evelina London and works within the paediatric accident and emergency department. Find out more about the importance of therapeutic play.
June 2023
Sujeev Mathur, consultant in paediatric cardiology
Sujeev is a consultant in paediatric cardiology at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, running cardiac clinics for children with cancer. He is proud to have established the UK’s only paediatric cardio-oncology service in the UK that offers regular, all day consultant-led clinics specifically for paediatric cardio-oncology patients.
May 2023
Ellie Grainger, senior staff nurse
Ellie discusses her role as a senior staff nurse on Beach ward and talks about her scholarship to work on a project for the new children’s day surgery unit.
May 2023
Cath Renwick, consultant nurse
Cath is a consultant nurse in children's arrhythmia and inherited cardiovascular conditions. Read about what makes her feel proud and what she thinks about working for the NHS.
May 2023
Cherese Reid and Morenike Folorunsho, clinical practice facilitators for student midwives
Learn what they do and why they’re so passionate about supporting the next generation of midwives.
May 2023
Nathalie Roche, specialist midwife
Nathalie is a specialist midwife in perinatal mental health at St Thomas’. Find out why it is so important to provide mental health support to pregnant women and birthing people
May 2023
Federico Tabios, matron
Federico is a matron for infection prevention and control at Evelina London. Find out why he loves his role.
April 2023
Ming Lim, paediatric neurologist
Ming shares his career journey which has lead to heading up the research and development team at Evelina London.
December 2022
Ekaete George, senior clinical educator and practice development lead
Ekaete describes her interesting career journey.
October 2022
Sarah Neilson, clinical specialist occupational therapist at Evelina London Children's Hospital
Sarah explains how she helps parents and carers interpret their baby’s behaviour so they can understand their baby's needs and wants before they can talk.
October 2022
Taiwo Muibi, clinical lead nurse for universal services (health visiting and school nursing)
Find out why Taiwo is so passionate about our community health services.
October 2022
Trupti Bhandari, physiotherapist
Trupti explains why she is so happy to be an allied health professional (AHP) and why Evelina London feels like her 'forever home'.
October 2022
Pamela Nwoko, admissions team
Pamela explains why she loves her administrative role in the ear, nose and throat (ENT) team at Evelina London.
October 2022
Cavette Castillo, head of nursing
Cavette describes her inspirational career journey and why she loves developing her team.
June 2022
Sue Pruden, play service manager
Sue explains why we take having fun very seriously at Evelina London. She leads our play team who support children and young people who are visiting or using our services.
June 2022
Professor Baba Inusa, consultant
Baba tells us about his inspirational career, including his research into sickle cell disease, an inherited disorder that causes people to have unusually shaped red blood cells.
May 2022
Andrea Swan, matron
Andrea explains why she loves her role as matron for Sky cardiology, Snow Leopard and respiratory services.
May 2022
Raymund Pula, practice development nurse
Learn why Raymund enjoys his role within the operating theatres and recovery room at Evelina London
September 2021
Nicki Crowley, doctor
Find out about Nicki Crowley's special fellowship in our neonatal unit and why she is so excited about Family Integrated Care (FICare).
May 2021
Ellen Samuel, matron
Ellen tells us about why she is still excited about working for Evelina London after 30 years. Read about how our new children's day surgery centre will improve our hospital for our patients and their families.
January 2020
Patrice Alexander, patient safety and quality facilitator
Patrice says that, for her, Evelina London is like one big family. Read about Patrice's years as a renal nurse and learn about how her career has progressed since her student days.