Most definitely! I’ll message you 😊

Good luck with the exciting change! It’s been 5 years now since we made the change to a group consultation service delivery model in Doncaster and the feedback from schools gets better and better every year 😊

The best advice I got from my placement supervisor was don’t pick up anything ‘extra’ til spring, that gave me time to really focus on building relationships with my schools and getting my time management right before doing any panels or LA project work for example

I have this one on my laptop too! It definitely got me through the more tricky TEP days

That would be really good, I think I remember hearing somewhere whilst background researching that they were going to create an Assistant rep post for the NEC soon

Thank you Pippa 😊 I’m glad you feel it resonates with your experience too. I do feel there’s work to be done around supporting qualified EPs to have these kind of interactions with assistants and hope I can be involved in that in any way I can at some level

It really does and helps to give my research context. I remember speaking to Kate, Debs and Sophie when they did their research and it encouraged me to take a qualitative grounded approach to really explore what it is like being an Assistant EP.

Ooh fantastic! I think the biggest takeaway from it is that Asst. EPs are best supported by interactions with the rest of the team that are collaborative and help them to find meaningfulness in their work. There are some ideas at the end of my appendices you may find helpful to foster these 😊

Thank you, and congratulations for passing your viva! I hope you are doing something nice to celebrate

Ah! Yes I will add it 😊

That would be amazing! I would love to read yours too if you have a link?