HR experience!

4^th-15^th January 2016

I hope that you all had a great Christmas and New Year and enjoyed your celebrations!

After having a lovely break myself over the Christmas period catching up with family and friends it was time once again to get back to the CCG. I was very busy at the beginning of the week catching up on things that I had missed over my time away and also getting up to date on all those emails in my inbox!

This week I have been involved in the process of shortlisting candidates for the next student placement role which is due to start in the summer. Myself along with Katie Hall, the placement student within the business team, came together to start to decide which candidates we felt would be suitable to take through to the next stage of the process. It was a real insight for me to see what it is like on the other side of the recruitment process as this time last year I was nervously waiting to see if I would go through to the interview stage. Being a part of the process has really helped me to appreciate how long each of the different stages of the recruitment process take and also what employers are looking for when going through the shortlisting process. I really think that in the future this will be something I may pursuit and look at taking a HR module as one of my final year modules at university.

Also since coming back after the Christmas break I have been more heavily involved with the day-to-day tasks and duties of the Project Management Office (PMO).  It is really beneficial for me to be involved heavily in another team at the CCG as it is broadening my knowledge and giving me exposure to different areas of the business. The skills and knowledge that I learn will be transferable to both when I go back to university and work on projects and also in my future career.

It was also time this week to get back into my PRINCE 2 revision as my exam is not too far away now. I have really enjoyed learning a new concept and all of the different elements that are involved within it. Also by completing the course at this time helps me massively as I am taking on more responsibilities within the PMO going forward.

Commissioning Intentions and Integrated Diabetes Care

30^th November-11^th December

This week I have been involved with the organisation and the facilitation of the Commissioning Intentions workshop. A select number of attendees were invited to attend the event from Eastern Cheshire CCG staff to patient representatives. Prior to the workshop a set of project mandates were put together and during the workshop a prioritisation matrix was used to score each of the projects on different areas both financial and non-financial.

The scores for each of the projects were then ranked in order from highest to lowest and the ones with the highest scores are taken forward and considered as a priority for the CCG for the next financial year.

Also over the past couple of weeks I have been working closely with the project lead for the Integrated Diabetes Care as I have been writing up a post event report for a Networking event that was held last month where providers and suppliers of Diabetes Care across the North West attended. The aim of this event was for the attendees to network and identify how partnerships between their organisations can be formed to help to deliver the Eastern Cheshire Integrated Diabetes Care Service Specification.  The report I am currently assisting to write will provide an outline to the event and set out the next steps for the future of the project as it goes into the procurement stage. Once this report has been written it will be circulated to all of the attendees to read along with the updated service specification.   

In addition I attended another Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) event around Outcomes Based Commissioning. This was a follow up event from a previous one I attended. This session was designed in order to try to develop an Outcomes Based Commissioning approach that all CCG’s could adopt. We also came up with specific outcomes for diabetes and mental health. This session was extremely useful as the group of attendees were smaller than previous events and therefore more in-depth discussions took place. As a result we were able to put a process together as a group that any CCG could adopt and tailor it to any specific condition.