So week 6 started with a fantastic meeting with a communications and engagement officer. It was really interesting to understand their role, having not thought much beyond comms as just social media/ newsletters before. We were able to explain about the Personalised Care (PC) Programme and the desire to shout about all the great work going on in the STP that relates to the programme. Because the STP is so vast and as a team of 2, we cannot know about everything, we are therefore considering…
Idea 14: Create a programme email address to be shared across communication streams of all the different organisations in the STP, for people to email us with great practice that aligns with the PC programme that we can then promote/ work alongside.
This blog was discussed also! It may potentially be shared across the STP rather than just through my twitter. I was quick to say if it needs editing then I am happy to do that to make it better before its shared further- but it was made clear that the purpose of a blog is to be a space to be yourself and document your thoughts, not to be a polished article. I reminded myself why I started the blog – to share my transition from a clinical role in to a programme role. I am no expert in this and it will not always be pretty but if it helps one other person, or someone is able to share their own experiences; it has served its purpose 🙂
On Tuesday, I took part in my first webinar. Whilst to my parents I am a technology whizz, I ended up dialling in as my laptop was misbehaving, my laptop then decided to work and opened up two pages so I was in the webinar 3 times! But better than none at all I guess!! The Webinar was run by NHS Horizons and was to consider the Vision and Shared Purpose for the Personalised Care Programme. The NHS Horizons team started by breaking down the term ‘Our Shared Purpose’. Who are the our? What are we sharing? And what is the purpose? I realised this was so simple, but how many times are phrases used without the consideration for what it actually means or that we’re trying to convey? I’m looking forward to working on this further.
Key thoughts this week…
- Communications teams play a huge role in the delivery of a service which I had not appreciated before. I look forward to working alongside the STP communications team from here on in
- Simple phrases can have a far greater meaning which should really be considered before using as common terminology
Achievements this week…
- Being part of my first webinar! (Minus a few technical glitches…)
- Identifying a range of other services that would be interesting to work with, that align to the programme
Plans for next week…
- Attend the Steering group for the Personalised Care Programme
- Learn more about social prescribing in the STP
- Refine my personal development needs within this role through supervision
- Have my flu jab! #flufighter
Personalised Care Mission 