After qualifying as a registered nurse in 1998 she started work in Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Wales and following a period of working in Sydney, Australia, returned and took up the post of Neurology Nurse Practitioner. In 2004 she commenced her current post within the epilepsy team with special interests in epilepsy surgery, epilepsy and women and management of suspected first seizures. In 2011 she was awarded a Florence Nightingale travel scholarship to look at experiences following first seizures in America and Australia and in 2012 she was awarded the inaugural Betsi Cadwaladar scholarship by the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales.