I've applied for a new job, or at least I've been invited to apply for one.
Perhaps more detail about that later if the application is successful and if not, I'll perhaps bury it under a sand pit so no one can ever see it.
It's not the type of job which will take me away from my existing job, it's the type of job in addition to my existing job.
The problem with these things and when opportunities like this arise is that you don't have the capacity to do it, because you spend all of your evenings sat on the sofa beside your partner on your laptop while they watch Netflix doing ‘admin’.
The secret to not do that is to empower the people around you to be better at their job and to be happy to take responsibility and to be creative and to make mistakes and then to learn from those mistakes and then to get better.
Tonight, while my son and his friends play pool in the room next door, and just before I order them a Five Guys, I checked a piece of work from two of the astonishing members of our team, Lucy and Louise.
It's to do with health and safety and BLS and ILS and our new project in the practice to appoint a BLS nurse on a week-by-week basis who is in charge of medical emergencies but also first aid and who becomes a nominated BLS first aider who checks all the equipment and logs everything and is right on point with everything to do with those subjects.
We had a conversation about this a few weeks ago, and I opened Slack (an essential tool for this type of collaboration) tonight and Louise had put in there something extraordinary, a new system, which would parallel the genius of our on-call system, which is nurse led, and nurse triaged.
It took me about 2.5 minutes to read this and to see how brilliant it was and to receive the detail and then to send a short audio message back to say push the button and get the system in play.
Earlier in the day, my PA of many years and absolute genius, Marie, had put together my CV and a supporting letter for the new job that I'm applying for.
Millie, who's part of our marketing team and the super wonderful editor of this blog and producer of what you're reading now, put together the most extraordinary project explaining the values of The Campbell Clinic and The Campbell Academy as supplemental information for the application.
I dictated approximately five minutes for Millie and again for Marie, perhaps nine minutes and then later in the day (after I had been doing many other things) they dropped into Slack, and I read them, and they were amazing and now they're finished.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we could empower the people around us to be better at what they do?
Wouldn't it be amazing if we gave them a chance to go on their own and to show us what they could do?
The problem with that is that you might find yourself free in the evening and having to make a decision about the different things you might watch on television.
Perhaps I'll read a book.
Blog Post Number - 3404
Leave a comment