Catch up with Karen
Hi everyone, here’s your weekly round-up…..
- We’re saying goodbye and a huge thankyou to members of Team Derian who are moving in to new roles or taking retirement. We wish them all much success and thank them for their service, care and compassion whilst at Derian. We’re launching a new “bank staff” scheme again and we hope to see some people back on that basis.
- Congratulations to Siobhan who has just completed her studies, with distinction, officially now an ACP, and we wish her all the best as she embarks on the next chapter of her career.
- It’s the launch of Volume 3 of the Keepsake Circle on Sunday, I’m looking forward to hearing the bespoke songs for each of the bereaved families that have taken part and sharing the experience with them. Thanks to Helen for organising everything.
- Thank you to everyone for your understanding regarding the changes that we feel we have needed to make to the catering prices, to help with cost control, it is very much appreciated.
- Kirsty and the education team are well underway with the rollout of the external training programme and are providing train the trainer sessions across L&SC.
- Sadly, we have had to say an unexpected farewell to Louise Bamber this week, after just a very short time with us in the HR team. Louise has left for personal reasons. Kim is looking to recruit another HR admin support as soon as possible.
- I’ve had further meetings with L&SC ICB this week regarding future funding, unfortunately there isn’t an update as of yet regarding any funding post March, and it is unlikely that they’ll be able to confirm anything until mid-February at the earliest, as soon as I know we’ll then be able to share this information.
Happy Birthday for this week goes to Katie King, hope you have a lovely day Katie.
That’s about it for now….. thanks everyone for your hard work and keep smiling J
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Karen
Karen Edwards OBE
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