Mental Health Officer Status and other issues

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I wonder if anyone can advise. Now RMN's can train to be a HV without doing

their RGN given the fact they have to maintain their RMN registration to be a HV

are they therefore able to maintain their mental health officer status?

If not we could lose some potentially excellent HV's. When I trained I had to do

general first and so was not considered but its a different scenario now!

I have also become aware that as the HV Offer requires transformed role for HV's

with emphasis on leadership direct entry midwives appear to be finding it

increasingly difficult to get signed off by a supervisor of midwives which means

they cannot therefore practice as a HV and also prevents them from taking team

Leader roles - which surely is discriminatory in terms of employment law.

Also we have an issue of annotation for school nurses who undertake shortened

programme to become a HV because they cannot be annotated on the Register and if

a member of the public looked on NMC register to confirm their registration they

would not be registered - what a mess!! I understood when I was at NMC although

they could not be on a Register twice but for the purpose of public protection

they could have annotation to demonstrate both qualifications! That appears to

have disappeared.

Three good reasons why the NMC need to consider changes to the regulation of

health visitors and consider direct entry again.

Any comments would be welcomed

Thanks

Liz

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Consultation: working together guidance [8 Attachments]

The Department for Education is consulting on an updated guidance to

replace the current 'Working together' safeguarding document.

Personally, I like the current document, but of course it came out

under the last government, and the current government have used the

opportunity opened by Eileen Munro's adverse comments about the extent

of prescriptive detail to take a completely 'new broom' approach to

the guidance. I haven't had time to look at these four documents in

detail, but they are certainly radically scaled down. The actual

'working together' one is focused on organisational responsibilities,

the 'individual case' guidance is predominantly for social workers and

children's social care (who are curiously almost completely absent

from the working together guidance) and the guidance about serious

case reviews is replaced by one focused on learning and development

following adverse events.

The consultation is open until 6th September: attached or from

http://www.education.gov.uk/consultations/index.cfm?action=consultationDetails & c\

onsultationId=1839 & external=no & menu=1

best wishes

Cowley

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