Effective communication is vital for high-quality, person-centred care and fundamental to public trust and confidence in health and care professionals.
The Nursing & Midwifery Council is currently consulting on its English language requirements. You can find out more about this consultation, which closes on 12 August 2022, on their website (https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/english-language-consultation/). This Facebook Live sessions will be just one way that we are engaging with our Unite in Health members to inform our response.
Lead professional officer Jane Beach will host today's session and is joined by fellow LPO Obi Amadi and NMC assistant director Sara Kovach-Clark.
SKC - Sara Kovach Clark is the Assistant Director responsible for policy at the NMC. She initially trained as a barrister and family and community mediator before moving to work in regulation and standard setting for the legal profession.
After 20 years in the legal sector she entered healthcare regulation; working in policy and regulatory development for the GMC in 2011, and since 2017 working in policy development for the NMC. She has a particular interest in how regulators can work with professionals to motivate and support them in delivering the best standards of care.
OA - Obi Amadi has been in post as Lead Professional Officer, Unite/CPHVA since May 2000. Obi joined from Greenwich Healthcare Trust where she was a Clinical Services Manager.
Obi trained as a midwife at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, before gaining her health visiting qualification at the West London Institute of Higher Education. She then qualified as a nurse practitioner in 1994 and has worked as a health visitor, nurse practitioner and manager before taking up her current post.
JB - Jane enjoyed a 32-year career in the NHS, training first as a nurse, then as a midwife and subsequently as a health visitor, a role she enjoyed for over 16 years working in Birmingham. Participation in a research project concerned with using the Edinburgh Post Natal Depression Scale in practice motivated Jane to undertake a degree in health sciences. Her positive experience of academia encouraged her to continue onto to obtain a Master’s in Public Health, cementing her passion for public health. She moved into smoking cessation, progressing to leadership of the service before securing a role within a PCT public health team, where she was a public health nurse consultant within the health improvement team.
Jane left the NHS when PCTs were dissolved in 2011. She secured a role at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as the health visiting adviser and developed a keen interest in healthcare regulation. In October 2012, Jane joined the Unite Health Sector as the lead professional officer for regulation, a role that enables her to maintain close links with her professional roots supporting members across the UK. Jane’s work in regulation has included work on NMC revalidation, changes to fitness to practise and the current SCPHN review.
In her spare time, Jane is a keen walker and sings in a Rock Choir.
Credits:
#UiHLive Presenter: Jane Beach
Guest: Obi Amadi & Sara Kovach Clark
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday
