Ellen is Director of Regional Pharmacy Training at Pharmacy Workforce Development South (PWDS), an NHS pharmacy workforce development team and training provider, where she is responsible for leading innovate training programme development, and steering pharmacy workforce development and education. Ellen has worked in many areas of pharmacy before going on to specialise in pharmacy education and training, locally, regionally and nationally. A Fellow and former Vice President of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK, Ellen is a passionate advocate for the pharmacy technician profession who champions the important role that pharmacy technicians play in the Medicines Optimisation and the wider healthcare agenda, raising the profile of the profession and ensuring that the knowledge, skills and potential of this workforce are recognised and fully utilised across all sectors of pharmacy.