Re: clinical leadership posts

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I would welcome a chat sometime. We may have some things in common.

My work number is 01252 734371. I am not there on Mondays.

clinical leadership posts

Hello

I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in.

Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE

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>From: "frank bilotta"

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>Subject: clinical leadership posts >Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:42:32 -0000 > >Hello > >I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in. >Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE > Hi ,

Ive been working in West Norfolk PCT as professional lead since April 2001 I would welcome contact around the role,as part of the eastern region collegues in adjoining PCT 's are looking at linking up to share practice and support,you would be more than welcome if its practical to do so!Contact tel ;01366 383241

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I am at present a clinical co-ordinator. There are four of us within our trust. One for each locality. We meet monthly with our locality manager, act across/up as necessary and pass on both clinical and non-clinical information to our colleagues that we work directly with. It is at present a pilot scheme which will be evaluated at the end of its first year (July). However, the "year" for us is actually 16mths because in July other HV's can apply for the post. It is only paid on an increment level and part of our evaluation will probably include that it should be paid on an "H" grade owing to the paper work we do etc. The idea behind this role was to enable people to try out a management role, to create a career opportunity and to reportedly, look for locality manager replacements for the future . Has anyone else got such a scheme. Team Leaders were phased out in this locality 3-4yrs ago.

[D'Albertson Judy (RHJ) WPC] -----Original Message-----From: frank bilotta [mailto:frank@...]Sent: 11 January 2002 18:43 Subject: clinical leadership posts

Hello

I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in.

Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE

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Hi ,

I am the clinical lead for Health Visiting in Harrow. We are tackling a huge

array of issues at the moment as a part of a review of Health Visiting.

However we recently had an away day which Margaret Buttergieg facilitated,

this was part of a visioning exercise and was designed to generate clearly

defined and agreed goals for the next few months. The areas we are therefore

currently working on and hope to have completed by the summer are.

* reviewing the child health surveillance/ health promotion programme

in the light of Hall.

* Developing a family health plan.

* setting a standard for the delivery of services from child health

clinics.

* Reviewing caseload management/ piloting corporate caseloads.

* Reviewing the way Health Visitors caseloads are defined/ GP

attachment v geographical.

When we have completed this work we then hope to concentrate on the public

health agenda and look at creating virtual teams, where the skills of all

Hvs can be used to meet a communities needs. In addition we would like to

close our skills gap in the light of the needs of our communities. Two

pieces of work that are currently going on that will feed into this process

are a needs assessment exercise and focus groups to seek consumer opinion.

If you want to discuss all this in more detail give me a call on 020 8861

1735,

.

> clinical leadership posts

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> Hello

>

> I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health

> visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar

> role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high

> on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant

> links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in.

> Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE

>

>

>

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Hi ,

Here in Worthing Priority Care we have already undertaken caseload profiles, this is actually done twice a year in line with our PDR. This has resulted in some areas the development of corporate caseloads. We are also piloting skill mix at a couple of our bases. We have a professional group called the Health Visitors Advisory Group, this group is attended by HVs from across the trust and they take forward colleague concerns etc and bring to us management issues. It has also looked at and reviewed all the trust policies and standards ensuring all feed back from all HVs goes to the group. The decision with regard developmental assessment has also gone forward to the group and members of the group attended the conference re;Hall. With the demise of the primary care trust in April we were aware that this was the time to have a really serious think about what we wanted, so much consideration and debate was undertaken and a strategy for the future has been drawn up. This has variations because the different locality's have different needs.We are also introducing " parenting " programmes for which the PCG have sponsored us financially. Obviously, everything could change come April but it was felt we had to plan ahead. We are also in the process of reviewing our Public Health role as a profession within the trust. Funding for some work has been provided by our local public health department.

From Judy d'Albertson.

clinical leadership posts

>

> Hello

>

> I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health

> visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar

> role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high

> on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant

> links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in.

> Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE

>

>

>

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Nina

Thanks for your reply, I will try to catch up with you by telephone very soon . We are almost neighbours, I'm in the Ipswich PCT. It would be really useful to link up.

Original Message -----

From: nina heaps

Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 1:07 PM

Subject: Re: clinical leadership posts

>From: "frank bilotta"

>Reply- >

>Subject: clinical leadership posts >Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:42:32 -0000 > >Hello > >I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in. >Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE > Hi ,

Ive been working in West Norfolk PCT as professional lead since April 2001 I would welcome contact around the role,as part of the eastern region collegues in adjoining PCT 's are looking at linking up to share practice and support,you would be more than welcome if its practical to do so!Contact tel ;01366 383241

regards Nina Heaps

Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here

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Hi Judy and

Thanks for your replys. It sounds as though we have been working on similar agendas. We introduced corporate caseloads here in Ipswich about three years ago, starting gradually with one or two practices and gradually building up to a large proportion of health visitors making the change. It takes time but I would say that most of us now feel that it is the best and fairest way to work. We have certainly seen the benefit of it when vacancies occur and with the move towards health visiting teams it makes sense. Skill mix has also been around for several years starting off with nursery nurses and most recently staff nurses. There was some concern at first but we would'nt go back now and really value the skills and bredth of knowledge they bring. Over the last two years we have introduced the Early Intervention Strategy, an assessment framework to use in the antenatal period and for families moving into the area which enables health visitors identify families with specific needs at an early stage. Part of the overall training for the introduction of the EIS included additional training in parenting / managing childrens behaviour groups. Although I don't officially start my new role until mid February I've already been approached by one of the community paediatricians with a view to looking at child health surveillance in line with Hall. We introduced parent questionnaires in1998 for children of 2 and 31/2 years. I would be interested in discussing this topic further especially with anybody else who uses this method.

Here in Ipswich we are keen to look at ways of taking the "the family centred public health role of the health visitor" forward- I'm hoping the resource pack will help with that. I was particularly interested in your focus groups with consumers - would like to know more.

Bilotta

clinical leadership posts > > Hello > > I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health > visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar > role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high > on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant > links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in. > Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE > > >

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thanks for your reply I will contact you in the near future for a chat.

clinical leadership posts

Hello

I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in.

Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE

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hello

please get in touch if you are interested in talking about documenting routine child health reviews. I would be very interested to hear what you are doing. This is the subject of my research.

best wishes

Marjorie Talbot

PhD Studentship

Child Health Informatics

University of Wales Swansea

clinical leadership posts > > Hello > > I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for health > visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a similar > role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are high > on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for relevant > links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in. > Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE > > >

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Sorry I have been following the debate but snowed under and not able to

comment but if people find this reference useful I dont mind flagging it up

again

Houston A.M, Clifton J, (2001) Corporate working in health visiting: a

concept analysis

Journal of Advanced Nursing 34(3), 356-366

for those just newly joining in and of course you are very welcome to the

debate.

>From: " frank bilotta " <frank@...>

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>Subject: Re: clinical leadership posts

>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:25:36 -0000

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>RE: clinical leadership postsHi Judy and

>

>Thanks for your replys. It sounds as though we have been working on

>similar agendas. We introduced corporate caseloads here in Ipswich about

>three years ago, starting gradually with one or two practices and gradually

>building up to a large proportion of health visitors making the change. It

>takes time but I would say that most of us now feel that it is the best and

>fairest way to work. We have certainly seen the benefit of it when

>vacancies occur and with the move towards health visiting teams it makes

>sense. Skill mix has also been around for several years starting off with

>nursery nurses and most recently staff nurses. There was some concern at

>first but we would'nt go back now and really value the skills and bredth of

>knowledge they bring. Over the last two years we have introduced the Early

>Intervention Strategy, an assessment framework to use in the antenatal

>period and for families moving into the area which enables health visitors

>identify families with specific needs at an early stage. Part of the

>overall training for the introduction of the EIS included additional

>training in parenting / managing childrens behaviour groups. Although I

>don't officially start my new role until mid February I've already been

>approached by one of the community paediatricians with a view to looking at

>child health surveillance in line with Hall. We introduced parent

>questionnaires in1998 for children of 2 and 31/2 years. I would be

>interested in discussing this topic further especially with anybody else

>who uses this method.

>Here in Ipswich we are keen to look at ways of taking the " the family

>centred public health role of the health visitor " forward- I'm hoping the

>resource pack will help with that. I was particularly interested in your

>focus groups with consumers - would like to know more.

>

> Bilotta

>

> clinical leadership posts

> >

> > Hello

> >

> > I have just been successful in being appointed as clinical lead for

>health

> > visiting in my PCG. I would really like to hear from anybody in a

>similar

> > role to find out how they are working and what particular issues are

>high

> > on their agenda at the moment. Has anybody any suggestions for

>relevant

> > links or forums that would be useful for me to be involved in.

> > Many thank to Rita for telling me about SENATE

> >

> >

> >