Leading your professional future

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Leading your professional future Dr Cheryll
Adams and Obi Amadi Joint Lead Professional
Officers Unite the Union/CPHVA
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• You're never beaten until you admit it."

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• Important year
• Health Visiting
• School Nursing
• Community Nursery Nursing

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• "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't
  thinking."

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• UK Agenda
• Northern Ireland
• Wales
• Scotland

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• "Take calculated risks."

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• Safeguarding
• Equalities
• Communication

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• "Make your plans to fit the circumstances."

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• Support
• Activity
• Publications

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• Lead me, Follow me, or get out of my way!

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• Influencing
• Strategic
• Local

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• Pressure makes diamonds.

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• Priorities
• Communication
• Team
• Membership

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• Accept the challenges so that you can
• feel the exhilaration of victory.

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CPHVA Successes in 2009

• Launch of the Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and
  Health Visiting Research - UK
• Action on Health Visiting programme
• Health visiting crises centre stage with all 3
  main political parties calling for more health
  visitors
• Unite support for CPHVA campaign to return health
  visiting to statute
• Netmums Parent Know How project substantial new
  funding to expand,including online health
  visiting support

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Action on Health Visiting

• Triggered by ministers when the crises became
  even more conspicuous in the wake of the death of
  Baby P
• Clear that unless commissioners could be helped
  to understand health visiting it would not be
  commissioned
• Phase 1
• Highlight the role of the modern health visitor.
  What must stay with the role and what can be
  delegated. Concluded health visitors must have
  the authority to determine what they must do and
  what can be safely delegated, also to
  influencethe make up of any skill mix team.
• In return they must be held accountable forthe
  outcomes of their work as leaders of the HCP

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Action on Health Visiting contd

• In many areas none of this can happen without new
  investment so you must use the levers such as the
  programme booklet to make the case
• The evidence is stark it is widely recognised
  by government, researchers that early
  intervention changes childrens lives.
• Look out for the Marmot review report
• Phase 2 will consider new fast track and more
  relevant routes into health visiting, a career
  framework for health visitors and how to build a
  strong health visitor workforce

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Should health visiting go back into statute?

• Unite.CPHVA believes it should
• 13.5 fall in health visitor numbers since the
  health visiting register closed
• Promises by government in 2001 that health
  visiting would be strengthened by the new
  arrangements in the NMC broken.
• NO VOICE ON NMC- No specialist committee, no
  representation on the board, no representation on
  the professional practice committee, excluded
  from initiatives such as the Nursing and
  Midwifery Commission

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Netmums, a window on need

• Parent supporters have intervened with over 44000
  individuals, the site is visited by 1m each month
• Over 50 havent sought help elsewhere, only 5
  have had lots of local help
• Relationships and mental health are the commonest
  issues dealt with
• But Parents tell Netmums a good relationship
  with a health visitor who has time to help would
  be of most benefit to them.

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Looking forward

• To get to where you want your service to be,
  requires
• Working together with everyone playing their part
• Speaking up for what you believe in
• Making a cost benefit case
• Good communication with all those around you
• Maximising your leadership talents
• Providing evidence for what you can do and what
  you have achieved, dont hide your achievements
  shout about them!!
• Using your union and professional body to support
  you. Local forums should be practice development
  hubs

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What can help?

• Facts and figures
• NHS Constitution
• Policy use it
• Local priorities
• Building relationships withcommissioners
• Your clients

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NHS constitution

• All staff should have rewarding and worthwhile
  jobs, with freedom and confidence to act in the
  interest of patients. To do this they have to be
  trusted, actively listened to and treated with
  respect at work to have the tools, training and
  support to deliver care and to have
  opportunities to develop and progress.
• The NHS will strive to engage staff in decisions
  that affect them and the services they provide,
  individually and through representatives. All
  staff will be empowered to put forward ways to
  deliver better and safer services for patients
  and their families
• NHS Constitution 2009

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So what about our professions

• New ways to strengthen our training and
  standards, must regain professional control
  Medical Royal Colleges are not vulnerable to
  political wims
• Enhance our partnerships with those sympathetic
  to our goals, whether nationally or locally
• Better articulate our unique selling points so
  not as vulnerable to disinvestment
• Be the leaders of effective teams working to
  improve the health of communities, whether in
  childrens centres or in schools

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I know, we know, you knowTogether we can do
it!!!
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