Changes to the Network Board

All change!

At the end of November 2016, we said goodbye and thank you to Rachel Dale, who was a founding chair of the Network. Rachel works in Colchester and is in her final year, and decided that it would be most sensible for her to step down at this point in order to prioritise other aspects of her training. She has worked hard for the Network and will be very much missed!

Alex Nance, our other founding chair, will also be retiring as chair in February 2017, although will remain a board member until the end of her training in September.

Alex and Rachel have worked hard for 18 months to establish the Network,
and are glad to know it's in safe hands.

Very excitingly, the two new Co-Chairs of the Network are Claire Francis and Charlotte Skipper! They took on their new responsibility in December 2016, to ease the transition between the old and new Co-Chairs.

Claire is training at Papworth in Respiratory & Sleep Science, and has previously acted as a delegate at the TRG on behalf of the East of England. Charlotte is training in Audiology at Addenbrooke's, and organised an excellent Christmas social at Nando's. Both were also on the organising team for the OSFA workshop.


Additionally, our Events co-ordinator, Sara Edwards, has retired, and our Secretary Kristina Stone will be stepping down in January 2017. If you are interested in finding out more about these roles, please contact eoehcs@gmail.com for more info (with no commitment!), or check the Network Board page.

If you have found any of the Network events or information helpful - even if just for meeting other trainees - and would like it to continue, please consider taking on one of these roles, or any other described on the Network Board page. Some good reasons to volunteer are:

• The more people involved, the easier the work is for everybody and the more the Network can accomplish. We found this to be very true when preparing the OSFA Workshop.
• You gain useful management experience, which can be used as evidence for multiple competences, and may give you an advantage at a future job interview. 
• It's a really great chance to get to know other trainees and to form and deepen friendships. We thoroughly recommend the buzz you get after an efficient meeting or a successful event, knowing that you worked hard with a team and achieved something brilliant together.

Trainee Network Board Meeting invitation, Thu 2nd Feb 2017

The next Trainee Network board meeting will be held on Thursday 2nd February 2017. All involved with the STP or HSST are very welcome - please pass on this invitation.

Time: 2-3:30pm

Location: Meeting room N3.

Agenda items will include: 

• Changes to the Board
• Review the OSFA Workshop
• Communications from the NSHCS Trainee Representative Group meeting (25th Jan)
• Update from the Inter-Disciplinary Cases Workshop planning committee.
• Is there anything to raise at the next Trainee Representative Group meeting at the National School (May 2017)?
• Set the date for the next board meeting, following the next TRG.

Please email us any questions, ideas, problems you're having or items for discussion, whether you can join us on the day or not - we exist to support your STP experience and your input is valuable. For example, what kind of events would you find useful? Do you need help with a particular Professional Practice competency? Do you have anything to raise with the NSHCS? 

RSVP to eoehcs@gmail.com for refreshment purposes please!

Directions to N3 Seminar Room

Located on level 3 in the 'N Wards' building

• From entering via the Main Entrance, turn right and into where the shopping area is, then turn left and walk past the Body Shop and the hairdresser on the left, and go directly across the corridor to the lift lobby. From here take the lift or stairs to level 3.
• On level 3 turn left and follow the signs to 'Ward N3'. You will be directed off the main corridor, past J3 ward and onwards into the N3 block.
• Just outside the double-door entrance to 'Ward N3' there is a room straight ahead labelled "Seminar Room", this is the N3 Seminar Room.

The OSFA Workshop 2016

This event was held in Cambridge at the end of November, and we'd like to thank all who attended for working hard to make it a success, as well as for their positive feedback and helpful suggestions for improvements. 

The organising team thoroughly enjoyed putting the day together and then seeing everyone benefit from it, including themselves!

Stations are in the process of being collated for sharing.

The NSHCS have included the workshop as a news item on their website.