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After a career in the NHS spanning almost thirty years, I decided to combine my experience and love of working with people and my passion for creative writing and speaking, and trained to be a celebrant. Having attained an NOCN Certificate in UK Celebrancy I set up Meraki Ceremonies. The name Meraki appealed to me as soon as I heard it and I just really liked what it means.... - 'The love, creativity and passion you put into something; the act of leaving a piece of yourself in your work; actions that come from the heart, like a labour of love.' I offer a personalised service for weddings, commitment ceremonies, vow renewals, celebrations of love and naming ceremonies, covering Dorset, Hampshire, the New Forest and London. I am also prepared to work out of my area. I also provide a personalised service for funerals, interment of ashes, memorial ceremonies, living funerals and advanced funeral planning

Responsible for providing strong, professional and visible senior nursing leadership and management of registered nurses and healthcare assistants in the outpatient setting.Leads the delivery of safe, effective and evidence based nursing care within an agreed quality, performance and financial framework.Operates within the clinical governance framework of the organisation and with a collaborative approach to develop and promote high quality patient care ensuring that effective governance arrangements are implemented and maintained. Act as change agent, ensuring that all activities and plans are effective to support innovations in practice, reflecting the needs of patients. Ensure clarity about what is expected to deliver the required changes to positively impact on patient safety and experience. Use influencing and facilitation skills to motivate staff and management to approach things differently – e.g. deliver services differently, adopt different business processes, establish different relationships with external partners. Ultimately ensure that both the current and future operations management arrangements embed continuous quality improvement through transformation to ensure that national and Trust performance indicators and objectives for 18 weeks and cancer pathways are achieved

Provision of day-to-day management and leadershipAchievement of corporate targets - Delayed Transfers of Care for Discharge Services and 18 week Referral to Treatment (RTT) for RheumatologyDevelopment and maintainance of effective business and operational plansEnsuring robust systems for recording and monitoring activity and performance, and establishment of effective means of communicating progressRepresentation of own services within the directorate, corporately and to other organisationsManagement of service and directorate resources according to corporate prioritiesManagement of all aspects of Governance and Risk Management Responsibility for controlling income and expenditure for all areas within remitLead on budget setting Preparation of board reportsPreparation of development bids and business cases, in conjunction with other departments as necessaryReview of services and processes to ensure operational efficiency and effectivenessProvision of professional advice according to qualifications to directorate management team and servicesPlanning and dissemination of a broad range of plans and strategies for new working practicesDevelopment of pathways, policies and protocols to ensure the smooth running of patient focused servicesManagement of all Human Resources issues including recruitment, sickness management, appraisal, performance management and disciplinary proceedings

Co-ordination and management of a series of interelated projects to improve patient services by increasing quality, access and productivity spanning the entire process from planning through to implementation and transition to operational use, underpinned by process mapping and capacity and demand techniques and utilisation of tools and techniques of change.Negotiation and securing appropriate resources to ensure successful outcomes from project workstreamsEnsuring that programme and project objectives were delivered, within budget, on time and to the standard and quality requiredEstablishment and maintenance of robust project monitoring and control mechanisms Direction, management and support to the individual project teams to develop a clear project plan and project deliverablesManagement of feedback and progress reports Analysis and interpretation of dataManagement and priorisation of own and project team's workloadMaintainance of effetive communication plans, ensuring stakeholders were fully informed and engaged in changes