I guess that I am not alone in the the concept that talking up my own achievements is an alien concept, or is that just a British thing? I am taking most of today off to complete my applications for up to three jobs in the new organisational structure. These are jobs with pretty big portfolios and with the need for a variety of management and leadership (and not to mention other qualities) but this whole thing requires a new mindset. It requires me to talk up rather than down my achievements (I might add that I really have done some good things and have no need to lie here!) and it requires me to write them in a succinct way as each supporting statement can be no more than 750 words.

Reapplying for my own (or something similar to my own) job has been the easy part, but now the challenge begins, hence this blogging break. Because I now have to move on to the jobs I neither necessarily want or think I have a hope in hell of getting but am applying for because they seem my best options in the circumstances.  What do I know or want to know about Clinical Governance is my next challenge, I see its importance, I know about its components (risk, audit, education and training, health and safety etc) but am I thrilled about the concept of spending my life worrying about governance and risk. Mind you, perhaps I already do when I find out that nurses don’t appear to know how to keep their records or how to wash their hands properly or how to safely move a patient. I just don’t know if I want to spend my whole life worrying about these issues.  How can I use my experiences of managing an education service to promote myself in the governance sense?

I am still finding it hard to comprehend that I am completing an application and wondering what to wear for interview instead of planning a christmas present list and and shopping trip (not that those things won’t be done too). Ah yes my ability to multi task now that is one of my top abilities, now how do I put that into a meaningful sentance?