The job I have been doing up until now will soon cease to exist as the next stage of the process of locally implementing Commissioning a Patient Led NHS (affectionately known as CaPLNHS) takes place. At times, even the people who wrote the policies and consultation documents seem confused about what they are doing, but then this is the NHS so I am not sure I can expect more! I am officially displaced, and in the fullness of time (before the end of June) I must be given the opportunity to apply for other jobs, and if they can’t find a suitable alternative job for me, make me redundant. Let us be clear, they are not about to do the latter, I have too much service, and will cost too much, and anyway hopefully they value me too much for that (well I am being positive and hopeful here so humour me).
The work I do now is meant to be of a project like nature, I am happy to do any kind of useful, nay important work the PCT would like me to do. I prefer to be busy and having little to do recently has been a challenge leading to some laziness. But no more, hopefully I have some work to do till they decide what they want with me, and I decide what I want from them. I will be doing what I know best, working within the new education and training department, trying to sort out the administrative processes and bringing the team of admin assistants etc together. Plus I will be developing a leadership and management training strategy and working with one of my existing team to work out how we bring together information, and to put together a case for a database across the training function. More than likely it will end up with me taking a job as a kind of deputy to the person who has the job I wanted, but we will see. I don’t think it will lead to any kind of complacency or assumptions in that area, because if it doesn’t work out on either side I will look for something else. But essentially I have work to do, pleasant people to work with and soon the opportunity to move my office to within 20 minutes by car of my home. Now that will be the best bit!
The action research project assignment is in. I can’t decide if it is good or indifferent, but reviewing the evaluation process was interesting. One of the things I will be able to do in this new and perhaps temporary role is to look at evaluation and how we do it so hopefully I might get to implement some of my findings. My studies are about to pick up momentum as we head into the dissertation and end of the course in the summer. I haven’t really decided on my subject yet, but there is no doubt something that I will be doing that will be worthy of some study. Suddenly this new year feels more positive anyway!
