@emwraw

Ex-NHS, with 15 years experience in HR and EDI. MCIPD, history degree, MA in HRM. LGBT+ and Disabled. All views my own. Social justice, music, cats, crafting.

 Rotherham
Joined October 2008
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So someone who was convicted of a fairly minor offence 10 years ago (now spent) and declared it to their "employer" both when they were elected, and when they were offered a cabinet position is now being hounded to resign?! What happened to the rehabilitation of offenders?! 1/2
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Full disclosure: I went to secondary school with Louise. We weren't friends (we were in different forms and had different interests) but it was always obvious to me and others that she genuinely wanted to help build a better world. 2/2
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I've just been to my favourite ever #BlackHistoryMonthUK event - an evening with the Sheffield Community Gospel Choir and friends at the Crucible - a joyful, beautiful and thought-provoking exploration of Black history through amazing music
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How hard is it to find women's cargo trousers in black, with decent pockets, in a material that isn't a sensory nightmare?!
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I've been working in the heritage role I do around my NHS job today. It's marvellous fun. At one point this morning I was marching round the outside the museum with 20 Y3s chanting "sin, dex, sin, dex, Romans" before pretending to build a fort.
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It's also a specialism with limited training opportunities and career pathways and a significant skills shortage, alongside lots of difficult problems. But it's an incredibly rewarding area to work in. 9/
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A proper national NHS "staff passport" would save millions of pounds every year and vastly improve the experiences of resident doctors. 10/
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Living the best part of 200 miles from the office requires you to be very very organised. Comfortable clothing and shoes are essential for London commuting. 7/
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Medical workforce is a really interesting area of the NHS people profession to work in. It's incredibly varied - no two days are the same. It's much faster paced than many other areas of HR due to rotations. 8/
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Psychiatrists are actually generally quite good people to work with. Yes, they have more opportunity to write exasperated emails to HR than most other groups of medical staff, but they're usually pretty respectful and open to discussion and reason. 5/
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If you're going to do hybrid working, creating a good workspace and routine (including lunch!) when working from home is crucial. If you and your partner or housemate often work from home, working on different floors of the house is helpful if possible. 6/
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The quality and use of data varies hugely across NHS trusts, particularly when it comes to workforce data. IT hardware and support also varies hugely. 3/
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Mental health trusts tend to have much more diverse workforces, particularly at senior levels. This tends to make them easier places to work in if you're part of one or more minority group. 4/
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I've been back working in a mental health trust for the first time in a decade for 2 months now! It's also my first time working in London (although in a previous job I used to go to lots of meetings in London). Some reflections: 1/
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Mental health services are under massive strain. What feels different is the level of belief that improvement is possible. There's still a way to go, but mental health trusts have progressed much further and more quickly than acutes in improving staff experience. 2/
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Yes, poor SEND provision and funding has a huge impact on schools and pupils (particularly pupils with SEND) but this letter is just awful, and will feed the stigma and discrimination kids with SEND already face in schools
ADHDsendmum@DeanaSpilletts120 Sep 2024
Sent to parents by a primary school. Are these people really that ignorant as to how discriminatory this letter is !?
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What a strange post from NHSE. It's not just the BMA using resident doctors - so are many individuals and institutions, including the partnership I work across (although we are bound to slip up occasionally.) Why did we make the change? Because our Resident Doctors asked us to. 1
NHS England Workforce, Training and Education@NHSE_WTE18 Sep 2024
From today, we recognise that the @TheBMA will use the title resident doctors instead of junior doctors, to better reflect their skills and responsibilities. ⬇️ xitter.cf/BMAResidents/status/18…
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Whilst doctors and medical workforce teams understand the skills, qualifications, experience and knowledge possessed by this staff group, other professions often don't. Hopefully changing the terminology will help. 2/
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After all, imagine if nurses up to 8 (or sometimes more, depending on specialty, LTFT status, time OOP etc) years post-qualification were referred to as "junior nurses"!
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Ready for gig 3 of the weekend! Tonight is Pride Brass at Boarshurst band club - always one of my favourite gigs to play ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜🖤🤎
Em is smiling and wearing a rainbow turban and black blouse

ALT Em is smiling and wearing a rainbow turban and black blouse

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