Caroline Caroline Bowman Bowman

Sharing practice a Sharing practice a personal reflection personal reflection

Career to date Career to date • SVQ 2 pilot study at Stevenson

College • No job guaranteed • Acute Medical admissions -12 beds • Medical admissions – 30 beds • ICU –seven and a half years • January 2004 –completed Cleanliness

Champion

Career to date -- Career to date -- • Part time secondment • Never again!!!! 2 roles • SVQ 4 –Management • SVQ –Assessors Course • BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care • 2006 CC role made substantive • Agenda for Change !!!

Sharing Practice Sharing Practice • Need to get everyone involved • From Managers down-- Effective

leadership • Porters and domestics to be involved

Grass roots up approach • Visit all areas of NHS Lothian• Passion and enthusiasm• Hard graft

Challenges Challenges • Turned up everywhere at meetings• Prove my worth • Involved in audits – even though not

seen as a high flyer in the organisation

• Dyslexia • English as a second language

I have to include this !!!!I have to include this !!!!

Initiatives to dateInitiatives to date• Workshop sessions• Study days• Drop in sessions • Personal development afternoons• Extraordinary general meeting• Hand hygiene awareness sessions• Global hand hygiene days

Other initiatives Other initiatives • 60 years of NHS – Glasgow 2

participants oldest and youngest Cleanliness Champions in Scotland

• Dress code and uniform policy audit –non compliance

• 3161 members of staff audited over 17 sites

Stressor !!!Stressor !!!• Lead uniform policy and dress code

group

Highs Highs • Award winning Laundry DVD

More rogue items More rogue items

Sharing Practice Sharing Practice

Sweeties ?? Sweeties ??

ADDIEWELL ADDIEWELL • MENTAL HEALTH ?

Thoughts for the days Thoughts for the days weeks and months aheadweeks and months ahead

• “Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct, they are matters of education and like most great things you must cultivate a taste for them" Benjamin Disraeli

• “Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre ,but they are more deadly in the long run” Mark Twain

In ConclusionIn Conclusion• “If you are a Champion you have to

have it in your heart” –Chris Evert