The role of non-professional staff in health adviser/GUM practice – finding the right recipe
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The role of non-professional staff inhealth adviser/GUM practice –
finding the right recipe
Paul DriscollSSHA conference – 09/09
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Who am I?
• Past – HIV nurse specialist, Lead Health Advisor @ Addenbrookes NHS
Trust in Cambridge
• Now - Lecturer in the school of Health and Human Sciences @ the University
of Suffolk, still clinically active
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What do I love….?
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What a question to ask a new lecturer…
‘Would you like to be involved in a new project
involving Skills for Health?’
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Why the lengthy title of this lecture?
The NHS work force is changing…and we have
to be prepared
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‘200,000 NHS nurses are about to walk out the door’
‘Hospitals creaking under the strain as NHS vacancies are left unfilled’
Degree only professions
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• NHS budgets cut by 10% in next financial year?
• Funding for health and social care courses @ HEIs across the country being
reduced
• Finite NHS resources are starting to bite
• Privatisation
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Will this effect Health Advisors?
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• Without question
Potential…. Vacancy freezes
Increased difficulty finding staff with appropriate experience to train
Reduction of HA services Erosion of the HA role
Greater threat in non-central/rural centres??
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The Solution?
Reflection
Awareness
Preparation
Flexibility
Leadership
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The Solution?
Make ourselves more efficient• Review work loads
• Review working structures• Can technology be used to allow more effectively• Can non-professional staff be used to complete
some of the tasks traditionally carried out by a HA?
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The Solution?
How many of you have non-professional members of staff carrying out elements of HA
work?
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The Solution?• The Associate Practitioner
- band 4
- being developed at a national level and in a Trust near you
- enhanced health care assistant role
- significant applications within GUM ??HA practice??
- FdA supported
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The Solution?
What is an Foundation Degree?•A nationally recognised qualification
•240 academic credits (– can be topped up to full BA, 360 credits)
•Students enter the course at academic level 4
•A qualification the facilitates widening participation in HE
•It presents a ideal opportunity for work force development
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Health Care Practice FdA – Sexual Health pathway
• Designed for non-professionals working in an appropriate health care setting
• Fully funded by local Strategic Health Authority
• Cohort in place to commence course in Febuary 2010
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FdA Health Care Practice – Sexual Health Pathway
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In conclusion…
• Am I proposing that we dilute the important work
that Health Advisors carry out….? NO
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In conclusion
• Am I proposing that as a professional group we
demonstrate an increased level of awareness towards
the threats to our practice….absolutely.
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Thank you.