Claire&PaulW

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

The role and skills of leaders needs to change, in line with profound changes in the workplace. In a new article in @HarvardBiz, a group of experts has identified 6 essential skills to thrive as a leader in the new environment:
1) emotional aperture - the ability to understand and tune into the emotional dynamics of others
2) adaptive communication - knowing how and when to adjust our behaviour & leadership style, connecting to the emotional energy of others
3) flexible thinking - able to flex with competing priorities & hold opposing ideas in our heads
4) perspective seeking, taking & coordinating - actively seek different perspectives & integrate new information into our approach
5) strategic disruption skills - questioning long-standing practices & pushing for continuous learning and improvement
6) resilient self-awareness - recognising our own boundaries/limitations & setting a healthy example for others.
There are links to lots of useful resources for developing these skills: https://t.co/J5lWxXQdQw. By @knightrm.
I would add a 7th essential skill: network & connection skills – ability to operate with both formal & informal influence and build sustainable relationships.

[Olivia Mead @MeadOlivia]

To Nick who left his Dell laptop on the 16.00 @railsouthwest train from London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour, and got off at Fratton, we are handing it in at Portsmouth Harbour at the supervisor cabin by the @wightlinkferry. From the loud girls eating cheese straws and crisps.

[Portsmouth Hospitals University NHST @PHU_NHS]

Today is #WorldPhysioDay! We'd like to thank all of our fantastic physiotherapists for the care they provide to our patients and all the hard work they do 💙

#ProudToBePHU

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

The post I made a couple of days ago on the differences between efficiency and productivity has been turned into a superb sketchnote & accompanying blog by @tnvora: https://t.co/rERGwYpHbt. For those who couldn't open the original article by Avi Siegal, here's another link: https://t.co/gwOr9qhXGk.

[Karma Nirvana @KNFMHBV]

Today #WeRemember Fawziyah Javed, 3 years on. An intelligent, compassionate young woman, her light shines on. Forever in our hearts.
#WeRememberFawziyah #Push4Change #HonourBasedAbuse

Watch Yasmin, the mother of Fawziyah Javed on Fawziyah: https://t.co/t5hqetRhk3

[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

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

This broke my heart 💔

[NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme @NHS_CEP]

Empowering Allied Health Professionals through the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme! 🚀

Join us on the 3rd of September at 6pm for a webinar specifically crafted for AHPs who are passionate about innovation!

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@SuzanneRastrick @jstjohnmatthews

[The Good Grief Trust @goodgrieftrust]

We thought this was an insightful post from @Donna_ashworth 🧡

HOSTING SAD

Sometimes I wake up sad.
And I know, as soon as my eyes open, that today, I am sad.
I can choose positive thoughts, have a cold shower, run on the treadmill, but I will still be sad.

And counting my blessings, on days like this, makes me even more sad.
How lucky I am and how tenuous that is.
How others are not so blessed and how unfair that is.

And I’ve learned to accept these little bouts of sad, or soul-flu, as I have now come to call them.
They are not within my control, this I know.
I don’t fear them anymore, they can’t harm me - because I don’t ‘become’ them.

I just let my ‘sad’ in the door and say “hey, how are you, take a seat…but don’t stay too long please, I have things to do.”

And I rumble along in my mental kitchen, making tea, emptying the dishwasher. And my sad sits there and just exists, without judgement or acrimony. Just acceptance.

I know she is many things you see, other than just sad. She is love, she is grief. She is fear, she is weariness and worry, and really, she puts up with rather a lot in this life.

So I give her a cup for tea. And listen to her sorrows, until she’s ready to go back outside again.

Sometimes I wake up and sad has already let herself in.
But I don’t scold her for that.
She’ll go soon.
And really, she deserves a warm place, every now and again, this world gives her much to bear.

Sometimes, I wake up sad.
For no reason.
And that’s okay.

Donna
Growing Brave 🌱

https://t.co/VuCeQ5RC6k

P.S: when sad is visiting, I look like exactly the same. You would never know I’m hosting her…unless you ask.

#sad #soulflu #donnaashworth #sadness #growingbravedonnaashworth #moods

[Kerry Herriott-Brown @BrownHerriott]

Fantastic job opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives living with beyond cancer @theRCOT @PHU_NHS @lott1e_lane @PhysioHayley

https://t.co/CKcsVealaa

[Hayley Price @PhysioHayley]

Come and join us at @PHU_NHS ! @theRCOT @AHPsEverywhere @HIOWAHPs @HIOW_ICS @macmillancancer please share 🤩☺️

[The Good Grief Trust @goodgrieftrust]

Today we thought this post from our friend @Donna_ashworth may help those affected by the Southport tragedy.

With love 🧡

Donna says;

‘I’m posting this for all the broken hearts today following the Southport tragedy. It’s hard to find the words, I hope this helps’

#southport #southporttragedy #prayforsouthport #grief

[Zoe van Willigen @ZoeWilligen]

Bit late to the party, but the #ICUchampionships24 are officially open @UHS_CritCare @UHSFT 🙌

Outstanding effort from the teams across all 3 adult ICUs this week to mark the occasion 👏

And well done to all the pts already on the leaderboards 🏆

(Photoswithconsent)

[Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire @MayorOfWY]

Far too many women have been on the receiving end of harassment, abuse and violence for far too long.

With violence against women and girls declared a ‘National Emergency’, we need our male allies to stand up and call out troubling behaviour when they see it.

#JustDont

[Dr Janice St. John-Matthews (DProf) @jstjohnmatthews]

Are you an AHP working in the NHS?

Do you have an idea that could improve patient care?

Why not join the #NHSCEP? A 12-month long free workforce development programme open to all NHS staff.

Applications open 1st October 2024

Visit: https://t.co/rOCLv5Y24S

[Refuge @RefugeCharity]

We know the England team losing the #EURO2024 is the worst outcome for some, for others however it's the reality of waiting for their partner to come home.
Football doesn't cause #DomesticAbuse, abusers do.
Share our helpline so women know they are not alone 👇🏼👇🏿

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Money transfer firm small world (popular with UK's filipino community so pls share) collapses into admin, leaving some without access to vital funds. Info & help here... https://t.co/vJ8K4Uhccv

[David Challen @David_Challen]

As a child bereaved by fatal domestic abuse, headlines calling a man who killed three women a “nice guy” and “normal person” have felt personally traumatic.

The media called my father a “gentle man” and “nice chap”, which misrepresented the controlling reality that myself and my family experienced for years. It compounded our trauma.

Reporting like this causes so much damage – both to victims’ families, and to public understandings of coercive control. It has to stop. Now.

We need every single newsroom trained in how to report domestic abuse deaths, and to lobby the regulator for stronger rules. The press has the power to prevent further deaths and save women’s lives.

Please support this crowdfunder I’ve started to support @we_level_up’s crucial work to train journalists in their Dignity For Dead Women guidelines.

This takes all of us ➡️ https://t.co/iPJGFUs7Qn

[The Good Grief Trust @goodgrieftrust]

‘There is a new chapter of us’

@Donna_ashworth 🧡

[Portsmouth Hospitals University NHST @PHU_NHS]

We've launched a walking aid scheme where items will be cleaned, checked, and reused for other patients helping reduce our impact on the environment.

If you have any unwanted walking sticks, crutches or walking frames, you can return them to QA Hospital:
https://t.co/xOYEjHx3UA