Em Wraw (she/her)

Ex-NHS, with 15 years experience in HR and EDI. MCIPD, history degree, MA in HRM. LGBT+ and Disabled. All views my own. Social justice, music, cats, crafting.

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@ck_precious19 Congratulations - RDASH is a fab place to work - I was there for about 6 years and loved it 🙂 yes, I'm good thanks - enjoying trying a few different things 🙂

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Full disclosure: I went to secondary school with Louise. We weren't friends (we were in different forms and had different interests) but it was always obvious to me and others that she genuinely wanted to help build a better world. 2/2

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So someone who was convicted of a fairly minor offence 10 years ago (now spent) and declared it to their "employer" both when they were elected, and when they were offered a cabinet position is now being hounded to resign?! What happened to the rehabilitation of offenders?! 1/2

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I've just been to my favourite ever #BlackHistoryMonthUK event - an evening with the Sheffield Community Gospel Choir and friends at the Crucible - a joyful, beautiful and thought-provoking exploration of Black history through amazing music

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@saj_anderson My partner is autistic. He finds putting a 20 or so minute podcast on one of his special interests on helps him do 20 minutes of pots, which is much better than no pots at all.

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How hard is it to find women's cargo trousers in black, with decent pockets, in a material that isn't a sensory nightmare?!

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@BenOxlade1 Oh wow! That's amazing news!

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I've been working in the heritage role I do around my NHS job today. It's marvellous fun. At one point this morning I was marching round the outside the museum with 20 Y3s chanting "sin, dex, sin, dex, Romans" before pretending to build a fort.

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A proper national NHS "staff passport" would save millions of pounds every year and vastly improve the experiences of resident doctors. 10/

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It's also a specialism with limited training opportunities and career pathways and a significant skills shortage, alongside lots of difficult problems. But it's an incredibly rewarding area to work in. 9/

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Medical workforce is a really interesting area of the NHS people profession to work in. It's incredibly varied - no two days are the same. It's much faster paced than many other areas of HR due to rotations. 8/

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Living the best part of 200 miles from the office requires you to be very very organised.
Comfortable clothing and shoes are essential for London commuting. 7/

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If you're going to do hybrid working, creating a good workspace and routine (including lunch!) when working from home is crucial.
If you and your partner or housemate often work from home, working on different floors of the house is helpful if possible. 6/

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Psychiatrists are actually generally quite good people to work with. Yes, they have more opportunity to write exasperated emails to HR than most other groups of medical staff, but they're usually pretty respectful and open to discussion and reason. 5/

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Mental health trusts tend to have much more diverse workforces, particularly at senior levels. This tends to make them easier places to work in if you're part of one or more minority group. 4/

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The quality and use of data varies hugely across NHS trusts, particularly when it comes to workforce data.

IT hardware and support also varies hugely. 3/

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Mental health services are under massive strain. What feels different is the level of belief that improvement is possible.

There's still a way to go, but mental health trusts have progressed much further and more quickly than acutes in improving staff experience. 2/

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I've been back working in a mental health trust for the first time in a decade for 2 months now! It's also my first time working in London (although in a previous job I used to go to lots of meetings in London). Some reflections: 1/

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@SGV_UK Ooh, I need to remember to make healthy(ish) snackpots!