iHV SCPHN Health Visitor Student Award 2024 now open!

Applications are now open for the 2024 iHV award for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) health visitor students.

This year’s award is linked with the annual iHV Leadership Conference in December 2024. Submission will be accepted from current iHV student members and would need to be supported by an academic/ practice assessor or supervisor. To make a submission, students are invited to prepare an 350-word abstract showcasing an innovation in practice.

The award has been developed to celebrate new talent joining the health visitor workforce and showcase leadership in action for strengthening the quality of service provision.

Read about the 2023 winners here

Listen to the iHV podcasts: the SCPHN Student Health Visitor Award winners 2023 speak with Amanda Holland, iHV Professional Services Lead, on their incredible new ideas for service provision

Requirements:

The student submission must be made using the iHV submission form to be accepted for entry. This details:

Name of HEI, department providing the SCPHN-HV programme and declaration of cohort size
Full name, contact details and signature of the student
Full name, contact details and signature of the supporting academic, practice assessor or supervisor
Title and written abstract prepared by the student (max 350 words)
Disclaimer confirming the submission is the student’s own work and has not been submitted elsewhere

The abstract should:
Present a service innovation that demonstrates leadership in action to strengthen the quality of service provision
for babies, children and families.

Latest date of submission: Friday 23 August 2024

For full details and requirements, please download the iHV SCPHN Student Health Visitor Award 2024 flyer

NOTES

The innovation must be informed by evidence and can be a proposed development or review of existing practice. Proposed or actual impacts for babies, children and families must be identified and the service innovation must involve SCPHN-HV practitioners.

The iHV judges will be looking for innovations that incorporate factors known to support successful practice. This includes a
service investing in the following:

Trusting relationships
Working in partnership with families
Evidence-driven practices
Accessible and equitable provision
Well-coordinated personalised service with continuity of practitioner
Practitioner autonomy
Collaborative working
Demonstrating impact

The winning student will be notified early October 2024. The award includes a free place at the iHV Leadership Conference in London, December 2024*, where the successful student will be invited to present their innovation and accept an iHV Award Certificate. The supporting academic, practice assessor or supervisor will also receive a free iHV Leadership Conference place.

Submit an entry

*The award cannot be transferred for an alternative prize or money, it is specific to the named iHV student member and conference date. The award does not include travel or accommodation expenses.

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships 2019 now open

The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 2019 Travelling Fellowships are now open for applications.

A Churchill Fellowship is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand your professional and personal horizons by travelling abroad for up to two months, researching innovative practice on a topic of your choice.

Everyone can apply, regardless of age or background, and no qualifications are required.

For 2019 Fellowships will be awarded for topics including these categories:

Healthcare: innovations for the twenty-first century
Migration: living well together
Nursing & Allied Health Professions
Suicide: prevention, intervention and postvention

Closing date: 18 September 2018

For more details and how to apply

HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Internships Scheme open for applications

The HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Internships Scheme across the North of England region is now open for applications for the 2018/19 cohort .

The scheme provides a range of both taught and academically supervised interventions that both engage and expose the intern to the clinical academic research environment and also provide them with the practical skills to undertake a research project supported by an expert clinical academic supervisor. The key components to the internship programme are:

a Clinical Academic Research Experience supported by supervision and research mentorship for 30 days.
an Educational Learning Package comprising of 4 days face to face learning and 4 days equivalent online distance learning.

By the end of the programme they hope that participants will have the confidence to apply their newly-learned skills within their employing Trusts, become research champions, and consider a future clinical academic career to include formally accredited education programmes, either within the HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme, or via other routes. Interns will also benefit from an enhanced ability to apply successfully for further formal research training.

It is a 3-stage application process as follows:

All applicants are required to submit an Expression of Interest before Friday 20 April 2018. These will be assessed against the eligibility criteria.
Applicants who meet the eligibility criteria will be invited to submit a full application. The closing date for applications is Friday 4 May 2018. Applications will be shortlisted with the highest scoring applicants being invited to interview.
Interviews will be held on Monday 18 June 2018 in Sheffield, Tuesday 19 June 2018 in Newcastle, and Thursday 21 June 2018 in Manchester. Where possible, we will allocate you to an interview venue closest to your place of work.

For further details or to submit your Expression of Interest, see the website at www.shu.ac.uk/icainternships and follow on Twitter @ICAINorth