NHSE Community Nursing

​ January has flown by like Storm Dudley.  I am now  found my feet  and my “buddy”  Helen  has also started her secondment, working with me two days a week.    We have a weekly meeting with our mentor and lead Julie  Clennell  – Region Chief nurse. Steering up in supporting the objectives that we have for the regional work and influencing how we may look at things differently.  Having that support is making the transition from acute clinical work to national strategic work much easier – compassionate  leadership .     Meeting so many people  and learning about  some many outstanding pieces of  work  -   “What good looks like”  digital work  . The Aging well work in the Yorkshire and North East  region  which   is amazing and the safe staffing work that has involved some 55,000 people.  Some early work which  I really have been  identify a gap and then su...

 Back at the beginning of December 2021 I was successful in being selected for a short secondment to NHS England as a Community Nurse Fellow in Sam Sherrington’s team. My action area of the community nursing plan is to drive the use of digital and data within community nursing. My first day in this new and exciting role - along with 3 other fellows who were able to start on the same day was a MSTeams meeting with Ruth May! Along with 100 + other staff we were told that we were in level 4  and needed to “ go help with the vaccination program”. Having just supported this service over the past 12 months in my usual place of work, I thought  “ I’ve only just finished this”- personally having given more than 5,000 vaccinations in our service  one of my roles was clinically supporting the development of the vaccination team along with our chief pharmacist and service manager. A little disappointed that this would mean less time in the secondment, but obviously was the righ...