1st- 26th February 2016
Firstly, I would like to apologise for not uploading a post
throughout the month of February! This month has been an extremely busy for me
at the CCG so unfortunately I have not had time to write up a post.
An exciting piece of news from this month is that I have
passed the PRINCE2 Project Management Qualification at Foundation Level. I am
really proud of myself for passing this course! By completing the course it
will help me in my role at the CCG working with the Programme Management Office
and also in my final year at university and in my future career.
Something that I have been heavily involved with this month,
and has been ongoing for the past couple months, is the recruitment process for
the next student placement positions. The interviews took place this month for
both my role, Transformation Programme Support Officer and also the other
student placement role within the CCG, Commissioning & Quality Officer.
Katie, the current Commissioning & Quality Officer and I took on the
responsibility of the recruitment process ourselves and it has been really
valuable HR experience for us. As part of the preparation for the interviews we
put together both the presentation questions that we asked candidates to
produce prior to the interview and also the questions that we were going to ask
at the interview. Also we put together an interview scoring matrix to ensure
that we were scoring all of the candidates fairly. The standard of candidates we
interviewed this year was very high which made it very difficult to come to a
decision on which candidate we felt would be most suited to the position.
However we have now come to a decision on who we feel would be most suited to
take on the student placement roles in the summer this year.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been assisting with the
creation and updating of the revised Caring Together Programme Plan. As the
governance structure has recently been revised within the programme to reflect
the need for a faster paced implementation and the collaborative working of all
the partners. I was working on adding in the implementation/programme plan of
some of the workstreams that are a part of the programme onto the entire
programme plan. Also I was numbering each of the tasks in a logical order from
the main tasks through to the sub tasks.
For many months now I have been supporting the Transformation
Project Manager on the Integrated Diabetes Care Project. I have been involved
in the project since I started at the CCG and it is currently in the
procurement stage. At this stage of the project I have been helping the project
lead with the organisation of the evaluation meetings for the Integrated
Diabetes Care bids. This has involved me liaising with internal staff at the
CCG and also external staff from other organisations and patient and public
representatives.
