Becky Hall

Advanced Physio Practitioner in Acute NIV. Aspiring orangutan babysitter. She/her. #blm. Free 🇵🇸

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

Morning. Does anyone who works in acute NIV have any patient information leaflets they’d be happy to share 😊? @thea_lw

[Justine Musiime - MSc MPH MCSP FRSPH @JustineMusiime]

A Plea regarding support for Internationally Educated/ Recruited staff:
If you have an internationally educated staff member in your team, please, please, please encourage them to join a trade union. Please!That should be the first thing they do on arrival.

I get emails from distressed AHPs needing to talk to me about the challenges they are facing & seeking for advice. These are not conversations that take just a couple of minutes. It's 1 hour, 2 hours, and more. I have spent 4 hours with someone on my day off before. They were in a very bad place. It is not possible (for me) to 'hurry along' someone who is distressed, full of fear & anxiety, tearful, some will say how they are struggling to sleep, because the pressure at work was continuing to mount as they were being progressed down the performance management pathway.

You and I know that performance management is meant to support people to 'get on track'. Our aim should be to performance-manage people into the organisation, so they can settle in and be able to perform the roles we recruited them for, but a lot of the time, the stories the international recruits tell sound like colleagues are trying to performance-manage them out of our organisations.

I am more than happy to support these AHP colleagues but a lot of the time I end up having to support them in my personal time.
We need a more sustainable system for supporting these AHPs.

You who are their colleagues have the power to make or break these international recruits. Why not choose to make them? I normally tell people to imagine their beloved relative or friend and consider the treatment and support they would want for them if they went to another country, and then work out how to give that same treatment and support to the international recruits in their teams. If you are a team member, please do not stand by and simply contribute to sharing information with your team lead to say what your colleague has not done well. You can also engage in supporting this colleague.

But again, I am learning that the deeply engrained racism and anti-blackness makes it difficult for some to even imagine these international recruits as being deserving of any help that seems like 'too much'. Then one asks, what is too much? Some will give this legitimate reason, that the teams are already stretched and they have no capacity to support the international recruits. So where do you want senior management to find the staff who are going to 'hit the ground running'?

If you are a manager or a colleague of an internationally recruited staff member, please know that they have given up so much to come into that post. Please, also remember that it has cost your organisation money and other resources to get this international recruit into post. And it will cost the organisation more once they leave. You might think it is little money, but the time for advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, inducting, preceptorship, etc... (consider all the staff involved in this process). Then the distabilisation for your team etc.

I sit in meetings where I listen to conversations about recruitment and retention. Senior management are busy stressing about retention strategies, and those working with these recruits can't put their own prejudices to one side and think of what can be done to retain these staff members! It's like some people are trying to build and others are just tearing down.

We have plenty of excellently written documents that paint a picture of the NHS that those in senior management talk about. There is need for everyone to get the vision and not just say that it is not possible, but instead ask the question, 'how can we make this work?'. It's easy to say that it can't be done, but if we work as a Team, nothing will be impossible.

The disconnect between the 'high level' strategy and other documents and what's on the ground is massive. How do we change this?

Before you tell me that there are different support systems in place in the workplaces, we all need to ask ourselves why these staff members do not access those support systems and instead end up looking for me, for @Srikesavan, other internationally recruited colleagues or those from Ethnic Minority / Global Majority backgrounds?

It's not fair to have just a couple of colleagues doing this work during personal time. It's high time we all thought of what we can contribute towards having systems that work for international AHPs! Inclusive systems. Equitable systems.

Now off to talk to a distressed internationally recruited AHP who is not a member of a union, who is extremely stressed about how things are escalating down the performance/ capability pathway, who is feeling more like they are being performance-managed out of the organisation.

Something needs to change.
#IR #IRAHPs #AHPIR #InternationalAHPs #IEN #IMG #SkilledWorkers #OurNHSPeople #NHSPeoplePromise #CompassionateLeadership @thecsp @WeAHPs

[Runnymede Trust @RunnymedeTrust]

We offer our utmost solidarity to Muslim communities and people of colour affected by the racist violence unfolding across the country.

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

Hi NIV people. Can I ask- what dry circuits are people using with the Ev300 vents 😊? @thea_lw

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

Hi! Does anyone working in acute or home NIV use these masks? We have 8 boxes we don’t need 😊

[MSF International @MSF]

Hospitals are not a target.

[Ema Swingwood (She/her) @emaroids1]

Yet again the @The_HCPC are proposing a fee increase (yes we just had one).
And once again the first 85% of the survey asks respondents to provide personal info/protected characteristics.
So (again) the results will be biased as many members will not wish to share such detail.

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@JustineMusiime @vicky_newey @gemwood01 @nkay_gingasnaps @NHSRachaelM @AshYouLikeIt @cspbame @thecsp This course was such a great idea- really enjoyed being part of it 😊

[Justine Musiime - MSc MPH MCSP FRSPH @JustineMusiime]

A chance to participate in research that seeks to explore the experiences of Muslim women who are students or registered physiotherapists in the UK. Please get in touch with Ameerah at [email protected].

Please share as able.
@cspbame @thecspstudents @thecsp

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@JP7_Physio @gloshospitals @W1Kirsty @CatherineCaley @CharlieHardaker @katy_buchan @hinds_sophie Good luck Joe! We’ll miss you.

[Ⓙⓐⓜⓔⓢ Ⓑⓡⓤⓒⓔ @jimmibruce]

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[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@emaroids1 @liam_campbell85 @SiLVaH_UK @amyphysiosmith @ClaireHookEvans @CharlieHardaker Not heard of this one either… thank goodness for Twitter (or X)! x

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@emaroids1 @sofielouise6 @RESPIRONICS_KSA @WestMidlandsCSP @Respiratorypc I’m also happy we agreed 😂😂😂

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@BTSrespiratory @CharlieHardaker @katy_buchan @amyphysiosmith

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@emaroids1 So many employment opportunities right now!! I reckon I can blag my way thru an msk assessment- what cld go wrong 😂😂

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@emaroids1 @msovani @CatGoodin @AdvanvedD @MatthewNHurley Thank you!

[African, Caribbean and Asian Lawyers For Justice @BameFor]

All for allyship, but when the Met rehearsed this abuse of power at Notting Hill Carnival, we couldn't hear a peep out of Republicans and environmentalists. The state practises its abuses first on 'unpopular minorities' and then, when perfected, imposes them on everybody.

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@emaroids1 @APPN_physio This looks good 😊 - thanks!

[Becky Hall @slamqueen25]

@hinds_sophie @uhbwNHS @TheACPRC @CharlieHardaker @katy_buchan @JP7_Physio @emaroids1 Good luck with your lightening talk 😊😊