Joanne Thomas

Joanne's main focus is within teaching practice skills to students both pre and post reg. As an operating department practitioner she has many years’ experience within the intraoperative environment across a range of specialities including Hepatic, Renal, ENT and General as well as in anaesthetic and recovery as a team leader and theatre manager.

Joanne teaches within the Operating Department Practitioner programmes mainly within the skills weeks and as a mentor in practice and she has now taken that further and teach the mentorship programmes within the university setting.

She has a Master’s in Education and teaches on the distance learning module principles of teaching in health and social care.