Sara has worked in a number of roles and in a number of specialities across the surgical. She is a qualified surgical first assistant (SFA), advanced nurse practitioner and surgical care practitioner (SCP). Currently working as the advanced practice lead for Cheshire and Mersyside. Sara also works as an associate lecturer at Edge Hill University. Sara was on the working party with the RCS which wrote the SCP national curriculum and also the working party for the Surgical Advance Clinical Practice Curriculium. In 2014 Sara received a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to travel to the US to review their 'middle grade' system looking at both the Physician Associate and Nurse Practitioner roles in both clinical practice and education to disseminate lessons learnt across the UK.