Georgia Wood

Within my role I work automously and within in my team to help deliver the Healthy Child Programme which under pins a lot of my professional practice.

I work with families supporting from birth to 5 years and sometimes older. I support with breastfeeding, infant feeding, infant and parental mental health, developmental checks and referrals into other services. I support families with the transition into parenthood and give guidance and advise on how to look of their child and themselves.

I work with a wide variety of individuals and have an understanding of the needs of those within my area and how best to disport them to meet their current health needs.

I use my safeguarding practices and work within the wider safeguarding MDT to help support a family and a child. I am involved in strategies, initial child protection conferences and follow these through with the same families to best support them

I deliver educational workshops for families and example of this is an antenatal workshop with expectant parents which involved education on having a new born baby and safe practices to follow.

This role was when I was completing my Masters in Specialist Public Health Community nursing. I was a student within the role learning the role of a Health Visitor.

I was able to build my confidence within the role. I was able to learn about the Health Visitors core contacts, safeguarding practices and working within the multi disciplinary team.

I learned to balance my time effectively when working and studying at the same time.

Worked within the team from when it first started. Duties include contacting positive staff members for covid 19, sharing guidance and policy with staff from all over the trust, working within MDTs to help enforce changes within PHE/UKHSA guidance's.

Creating documents and spreadsheets to be able to collate data and teaching other staff members how to create them.

I gained leadership skills within this role when working as a shift co-ordinator and helped to allocate work to others in the team. I have increased my skill at working autonomously due to the nature of the role but have worked harder at build a strong work relationship with others within my team as we have only ever meet through TEAMS.

Advocating and caring for a patient and their families. Working within a general/ respiratory Paediatric ward which was a high paced and intense ward due to the high dependency of the patients.

Within my time on the ward I looked after post and pre BMT patients, patients with cystic fibrosis, gastro patients and tracheostomies and a range of other conditions. I was able to become tracheostomy trained and have an understanding of patients that are on long term ventilation. I worked with patients and their families holistically to help facilitate a high standard of care.

Duties on the ward included medications rounds, TPN, cares, observations, teaching of parents and building a therapeutic relationship with them to help facilitate their child's discharge.

If any issues arose I would escalate and inform the nurse in charge and the wider multidisciplinary team, where I could effectively handover concerns so that my patients received the most appropriate care