12.13.06
The jury’s out
I can’t decide whether, if I had been interviewing me, I would give me the job. Firstly the questions were pretty standard and in the main I probably answered them well, there were of course one or two that I answered much better as I drove home afterwards. The thing that has surprised me is how much I actually want my own job, after all I have been telling myself that there are lots of opportunities out there for me if things don’t go right. This is of course true, but actually it does matter and the last thing we need in the current climate is having a person who really wanted a different job getting this one!
We actually received notification of some income from the Strategic Health Authority yesterday, but this includes no allocation what so ever for education and training (no real surprise but still I had hoped). With the financial state of the rest of the trust there is a danger that by the new financial year the education and training department might as well just be renamed the mandatory training department as that might be all there is money for. A parliamentary committee report on finance in the NHS has apparently reported (haven’t read it yet so relying on the accuracy of the BBC here) that the Department of Health shouldn’t expect to put the NHS back into the black by cutting back on education and training. In my opinion someone should tell the SHA to give us the money that is rightfully ours (and whats more we have had to spend anyway) but perhaps I am living in some kind of dream world!
I find out on Monday about the job!
Neil Wilkinson said,
December 13, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Although the interview is over, I expect you’ll be replaying it mentally for a while. hope it doesn’t cost you too much sleep.
Maybe one reason why you want your own job is pride? The belief that yep, it is MY job, I’m good at it, and how dare anyone try to take it away from me
I know I would have felt that way had I been in your shoes.
My own trust doesn’t support much more than Mandatory Training.
The key plus factors are no cost, and high relevance to direct patient care. Having said that, actually ring fencng the training day is getting harder owing to sickness, unfilled vacancies and pre Xmas annual leave taking. Nothing much changes does it?
I look forward to reading about your success on Monday evening.
ps good night for both of us Arsenal and blackburn both won!