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Hi Patricia,
A couple of quick thoughts - not all CILIP courses cost so
much. HLG CILIP (and IfMH and LFN) courses tend to cost considerably
less and, as in the case of one of our events last year, can be completely free
of charge.
HLG are also developing a section of our site called
Positively Professional where people can offer examples of learning and
development other than taught courses.
Contributions are very welcome.
HLG also regularly offer the opportunity to bid for funds
to support training you might otherwise not be able to
afford.
I could go on but this is probably enough for the time
being.
Cheers
Alan
PS I found the tax reclaim process fairly straight forward
and certainly worthwhile.
Having been off sick l missed the beginning of this
discussion.
I think that CILIP should definitely support a campaign
for a contribution towards professional fees, providing that CILIP membership
is a requirement for holding a particular post. However, I feel that
this is yet another instance where the NHS has divided the workforce between
Clinical and non-clinical staff.
Surely, the whole point of Agenda for Change was to
provide one pay scale for everyone, clinical and non-clinical (with the
exception of doctors & dentists!)? Then, at the first pay negotiation, we go
our separate ways again and different terms are negotiated and agreed. It makes
me wonder why they bothered with AfC at all.
Re CILIP: If they support us on this, I shall feel that
all my many years of subscriptions (over 25) will not have been in vain. To date
I have got very little from my CILIP membership. I joined in the first place
because I was working in a Public Library and had to do so. I've maintained my
subscriptions over the years more out of habit & out of a fear that I will
be excluding myself from some jobs rather than from the benefits I have
received.
CILIP run some very useful training sessions, some of
which I would love to attend but cannot afford to do so. Not everyone is able to
find the necessary £200-£300 for a 1- or 2-day course & it's difficult to
justify that level of expenditure from my budget when money is so short. So
it would be really good to see them do something to benefit me for
once.
By the way, I believe that you can get a tax rebate on
professional subscriptions. However, is the amount of tax recovered worth the
hassle of completing the forms?
Regards
Tricia Rey
Library Services
Manager
Queen
Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
East Grinstead
Tel: 01342 414266
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I
dropped out of CILIP for 5+ years and haven't noticed at all. I rejoined
last year (membership was a requirement for a job I applied for) and consider it
a waste of money. My trust tried to make me redundant last year and hand
the work to the medical education manager. Despite their protestations
about fighting de-professionalisation, the only help CILIP offered was a
couple of leaflets. I was able to regain chartered status after a 5 year
gap just by paying them the membership fee. No checks, no
portfolio.
I'm
also in UKCHIP, which at least checks that I've done some professional
development over the last year.
Mike
Roddham
[Roddham
Mike]
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From: UK medical/ health care library community /
information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Woodley Zena (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital
Sent: 13 December 2007
12:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re:
Reimbursement of professional membership
fees[Scanned]
Alas, it is not necessary to be a member of Cilip in order to do one's
job.
I 'missed' membership for an entire year: it didn't affect my
functioning as a manager, nor did anyone notice. Or care! I
rejoined only from a sense that I ought to....
cheers - Zena
Zena Woodley B.A.(Joint
Hons), MCLIP
Library
Resources Manager
The Warner Library
Broomfield Hospital
Chelmsford CM1 7ET
T: 01245-514310
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it's what we do. All day. Every day.
Response from
the list:
I have had a
definitive response from Catherine Richmond (and no doubt others to follow)
who has helpfully cited Pay Circular (AforC) 4/2007 which
states:
Support for clinical staff requiring professional
registration
4 It has been
agreed that an allowance of £38 will be made to support the payment of
clinical registration fees for those clinical staff in England
where registration with one of the regulatory bodies is mandatory in order
to practice. Payment will be made to appropriate staff in bands 5-8(A)
inclusive. Payment will be made from 1 November 2007 and each year until
November 2010 by when it will have been reviewed.
5 This allowance
will cover relevant staff in band 5 – 8A requiring registration by the
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Health Professions Council (HPC),
General Dental Council (GDC), Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and the
General Social Care Council (GSCC) or other body designated by the NHS Staff
Council.
So, action point
for UNISON for the next round: get this provision widened both by discipline
and geography.
Colin Engel,
Deputy Library Manager
Clinical Library
Service, 1st Floor C Block
Russells Hall Hospital
Dudley DY1
2HQ
Tel. 01384
321084 (Internal:ext.1084)
We provide the
following services:
Document
delivery, journal and book collections in electronic and hard copy. Training
courses in knowledge retrieval, literature search services, enquiry
service.
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Library
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From:
Engel, Colin
Sent: 13 December 2007
10:26
To:
[log in to unmask]
Subject: Reimbursement of professional
membership fees
Colleagues
I understood
from the bullet point headlines of the last annual NHS staff salary
settlement that full reimbursement of professional association membership
fees was included as part of the package.
It was not clear
to me whether this headline was an abbreviation in which the word “clinical”
got dropped from the original, or whether the intention and letter was that
this applied to all groups of staff, not just clinicians.
Has anyone
examples positive or negative of how this is being interpreted and applied
on the ground with respect to CILIP membership?
Colin Engel,
Deputy Library Manager
Clinical Library
Service, 1st Floor C Block
Russells Hall Hospital
Dudley DY1
2HQ
Tel. 01384
321084 (Internal:ext.1084)
We provide the
following services:
Document
delivery, journal and book collections in electronic and hard copy. Training
courses in knowledge retrieval, literature search services, enquiry
service.
National Library
for Health: http://www.library.nhs.uk
Library
catalogue available on Trust Intranet.: http://libcat.dudley.nhs..uk/amlibweb
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