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Ali Ahmed Y. Utaif

Nursing Specialist (Registered Nurse), BSc (Hons) · Saudi national · Riyadh

Professional summary

Nursing Specialist with 7 years of continuous Ministry of Interior service (GOSI-recorded, including the sponsored UK study period) and a UK BSc (Hons) in Nursing from the University of Birmingham. Qualified posts since December 2024, now practising in acute inpatient psychiatry and addiction care, with charge nurse experience in two Ministry of Interior facilities. 2,300+ supervised UK placement hours across medical, surgical, critical care, emergency, maternity, paediatric and mental health specialties. Combines frontline practice with data analysis, Python development and AI/automation work, and is building a PMP, CPHQ and CAHIMS credential stack. Bilingual Arabic/English.

Licences and certifications

  • Registered Nurse, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) · Classified and registered, valid to May 2027
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association · Valid to January 2027
  • Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI · Candidate; 35 contact hours completed, exam scheduled February 2027
  • Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), NAHQ · Candidate, exam scheduled February 2027
  • Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHIMS), HIMSS · Candidate, exam scheduled February 2027

Professional experience

Nursing Specialist, Ministry of Interior (Medical Cities Self-Operation Programme), continuously employed since 1441H: permanent, full-time.

Nursing Specialist, Inpatient Psychiatry and Addiction

Dec 2025 – Present

Azm Center for Psychiatry and Addiction, Ministry of Interior · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Shift assignment of 4–10 inpatients with substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric illness, across admission, stabilisation, detoxification and rehabilitation.
  • Risk assessment, withdrawal and toxidrome monitoring, sedation management and least-restrictive restraint practice in line with unit policy and CBAHI standards.
  • Administer and monitor psychotropic and detoxification regimens; escalate deterioration and adverse drug reactions to the multidisciplinary team.
  • Designed and delivered the centre-wide CPD session “AI and What It Means to Us” (July 2026) to about 50 staff, with parallel Arabic and English decks built on clinical cases.
  • Support accreditation readiness through documentation quality, incident reporting and patient-safety standards.

Nursing Specialist, High-Acuity Inpatient Psychiatry

May 2025 – Dec 2025

Ministry of Interior assigned facility · Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia

  • Inpatient care for patients with schizophrenia and severe psychotic illness in a high-acuity, high-observation environment.
  • Mental state observation, suicide and aggression risk monitoring, de-escalation and therapeutic engagement.
  • Managed long-acting injectable and oral antipsychotics, monitoring extrapyramidal and metabolic side effects.
  • Charge nurse: coordinated shift assignments, admissions and observation levels; first escalation point for clinical and staffing issues.

Nursing Specialist, Integrated Inpatient Unit

Dec 2024 – May 2025

Security Forces Hospital, Ministry of Interior · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Combined orthopaedic, neurology and maxillofacial unit of 28–31 patients daily; assignment of 6–8 patients per shift.
  • Post-operative recovery, traction and cast care, neurological observation, wound and drain management, multimodal pain control.
  • Charge nurse: shift assignments, bed allocation, admissions and discharges; first escalation point. Coordinated with surgical, physiotherapy and discharge-planning teams.
  • Precepted nursing students: supervised skills practice, supported competency sign-off and gave structured feedback.

Data Analyst (part-time, remote)

Sep 2026 – Present

Peroptyx · Remote

  • Evaluate digital data sets against defined quality frameworks using structured rating criteria for relevance, accuracy and completeness.

Education and research

BSc (Hons) Nursing, University of Birmingham, UK

2021 – 2024
  • Full government scholarship from the Ministry of Interior, with employment contract and GOSI registration maintained throughout. Programme delivered in English.
  • As a third-year student, mentored first- and second-year students in clinical skills, research methodology and coursework.
  • Dissertation: Effects of Cannabidiol in Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy: A Systematic Review (unpublished, 2024). PRISMA-aligned protocol, structured database searching, screening, critical appraisal and narrative synthesis.

Foundation Year, University of Birmingham, UK

2020 – 2021

Pre-degree pathway required for progression to the BSc, under Ministry of Interior scholarship.

UK clinical training

2,300+ supervised placement hours across NHS acute and community settings in the West Midlands: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Heartlands, Good Hope, Solihull Hospital, Birmingham Chest Clinic) and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Included health and safety education sessions in UK primary and secondary schools.

  • Acute medicine and medical assessment
  • General and specialist surgery, peri-operative and post-anaesthetic care
  • Emergency department
  • Critical care
  • Cardiology and coronary care
  • Respiratory medicine
  • Trauma and orthopaedics
  • Neurology and stroke
  • Oncology and haematology
  • Renal medicine
  • Care of the elderly and rehabilitation
  • Maternity and obstetric care
  • Paediatrics and neonatal care
  • Inpatient and community mental health
  • Community and district nursing, primary care
  • Theatres, day surgery and outpatient clinics
  • Palliative and end-of-life care

Technical and digital health skills

  • Programming and data: Python, Rust and SQL; relational database design and querying; data analysis, cleaning and visualisation; Power BI dashboards and reporting; structured evaluation and quality-rating methods.
  • AI and automation: Autonomous agent pipelines in Python, including a personal geospatial build (automated place-data collection, continuous refresh against changing sources, model training and evaluation); agentic coding workflows, API integration, prompt engineering.
  • Web development: Full-stack web applications built and shipped end to end (front end, database, deployment); multiple production sites, including bilingual Arabic/English builds.
  • Health communication: A Python and Rust tool that rewrites NHS patient education material into Gen Z-level language, delivered through an original character with custom design and voice work.
  • Clinical systems: Electronic health records, medication administration records, incident reporting, quality and accreditation documentation (CBAHI). Microsoft Office; bilingual document and presentation design.

See projects →

Talks and professional development

  • “AI and What It Means to Us”, centre-wide staff CPD session in Arabic and English to about 50 staff, Azm Center for Psychiatry and Addiction, July 2026.
  • Security Forces Hospital clinical competency assessment programme, all assessed competencies passed (2025).
  • 35-contact-hour project management education programme (PMP eligibility requirement).
  • Basic Life Support, European Resuscitation Council, obtained during UK clinical training (lapsed).

Languages

  • Arabic: native
  • English: native-level, following UK education

Volunteering

  • Associate, Saudi ADHD Society (May 2026 – Present): design, content production and project coordination.
  • Volunteer, Saudi Students Club, Birmingham (2020/2021): organised community and cultural events for the club’s 40th session; Certificate of Appreciation, Saudi Cultural Bureau UK, 2021.