This sounds an excellent idea however within our two PCTs there has been a push to ensure all the job descriptions etc for all PCT staff are ammended and updated within the next week or so, I wonder if this has been the case elsewhere and if this has come a bit too late for a lot of people
Diane Keenan
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Oldham PCT
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From: Linda Ferguson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:58 am
Subject: "Librarians leading their own Agenda for Change"
> Can someone who is on lis-medical please forward to the list?
>
>
> Librarians from the NHS Library and Knowledge Development Network
> (LKDN), The Chartered Institute of
> Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)and its sub-group
> Health Libraries Group (HLG)
> are to work together to develop "Agenda for Change" national job
> profiles for NHS library and
> knowledge workers. This will reduce the need for the widespread
> job evaluation of library and knowledge posts
> within NHS organisations.
>
> The Workforce Development Group of LKDN and the NHS Library
> Adviser will
> lead the development of draft job profiles for the most common jobs,
> supported by a working group. We will carry out this work with
> ASSIST (the
> professional association for health informatics staff), as library
> and knowledge workers have much to contribute and gain by
> partnership across the
> widening health informatics profession.
>
> Further details to follow next week.
>
> Linda Ferguson, Convenor LKDN Workforce Development Group
>
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