Nursing Support Worker Conference: The power of inclusive language
23 Nov 2024
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This free to attend conference will feature inspiring speakers with round table work on issues relevant to Nursing Support Workers.
Please note that this is an in-person event only.
Held on Nursing Support Workers Day, the conference celebrates the role of the Nursing Support Worker alongside the opportunity to gain continuous professional development whilst meeting colleagues working in a range of roles and settings.
Registration
Delegates are asked to register for this event via the booking button above. No registration fee will apply to this event.
Online bookings are the easiest and fastest way to book 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Bookings can be made by phone by calling +44 (0)2920 546460. Lines are open from 9.30am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday.
All bookings will be confirmed in writing.
Who should attend this event
The nursing support workforce is a vital and valued part of the nursing team, working across a diverse range of workplace settings in health and social care.
Health care assistants, health care support workers, assistant practitioners, trainee nursing associates, nursing associates, nursing assistants, maternity support workers, and many more nursing worker/staff roles across all health and social care settings can register to attend this event.
The event may also appeal to those responsible for managing Nursing Support Workers and is open to both RCN members and non-members.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided together with a certificate of attendance. Celebrate the value of Nursing Support Workers and the contribution made to patient care and the nursing team.
Click the link for more information about RCN Nursing Support Worker membership
Why attend.• CPD Up to 5 hours
• Learn about the ‘Power of inclusive language’
• Join your peers to celebrate the role of the Nursing Support Worker
• Meet country and regional members of the RCN Nursing Support Worker Committee
• Make your voice heard on key issues
#NursingSupportWorkersDay
Royal College of Nursing
20 Cavendish Square
Marylebone
London
W1G 0RN
20 Cavendish Square is located behind John Lewis, Oxford Street.
Tube
The nearest stations are Oxford Circus and Bond Street.
Bus
There are many buses routes that stop nearby, including the 10, 25, 55, 73, 98 and 390.
Sandra-Jane Stock, RCN UK Nursing Support Workers Committee
Biography
Sandra-Jane (SJ) is a Band 2 Health Care Assistant at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, working mainly with children.
SJ started working in the NHS in 1982, qualifying as a RGN in 1986 and a RSCN in 1988. SJ has worked in hospital, schools and the community with children and their families in many different roles, including Band 7 Children’s respiratory and allergy nurse specialist with a non-medical prescribing qualification in West London. Owing to disability, SJ took ill health retirement and left the NMC register at the end of 2021. Finding retirement not to her liking, SJ joined NNUH as a Health Care Assistant.
Life-long learning has always been an important part of SJ’s life, undertaking post-registration qualifications in teaching and assessing, paediatric asthma, allergy in practice, Diploma in Professional Studies in Nursing followed by a top-up degree at the RCN – BSc (Hons) in Child Health Nursing. Apart from annual updates in respiratory, allergy and prescribing, SJ’s most recent formal qualification was Non-Medical Prescribing registered with the NMC in 2012. Now, however, SJ is undertaking an MA in Childhood and Youth studies with the OU. SJ had an article published in RCNi Journal, Nursing Children & Young People in 2019.
SJ has been a member of the RCN since 1982, as a student member, Registered Nurse member, retired member (very briefly) and as a NSW member. SJ became the elected member of the Nursing Support Workers (NSW) Committee representing the Eastern Region in 2023.
Having been a Registered Nurse, SJ felt that she was well placed to support NSWs due to her breadth of knowledge and experience of competencies and acknowledgement of increased role expectations; NSW’s taking on more of the clinical skills that used to be in the Registered Nurse domain and highlighting when NSWs are being asked to take on roles/tasks beyond their job description and taking action on behalf of other NSWs. Recently SJ has become the NSW Committee representative on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, having had practical experience of how difficult it is to argue for necessary adjustments.
Outside of work, studying and RCN commitments, SJ has a long history of volunteering - previously as a School Governor, PCC Treasurer, Lead Chaperone and Safeguarding Officer for a youth theatre group and currently as an Age UK phone friend, Beaver Leader in training (Scouting) and Rainbow Leader in training (Guiding).
Contact us:
If your query relates to an existing booking, please contact the RCN Events Registration Team (Monday to Friday, 9am-4.30pm):
+44 (0)2920 546460
For any other queries relating to this conference please contact the RCN Events Team:
+44 (0)207 6473577
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