NHS redeployment

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I work for the NHS, and as from next week I'm being redeployed to work as a Healthcare Assistant to help cope with the expected peak of Covid-19. I'm very unlikely to be at the frontline of Covid treatment but I'll free up other, more experienced, healthcare workers to allow the fight to go on. Anyone else being redeployed?

I doubt midwives will be re-deployed. The number of women requiring ante/post natal care won’t change due to CIVID-19. I’m a neonatal nurse and don’t expect to be re-deployed.

My friends a senior midwife being redeployed to a&e.

@koalabear I'm also a schools based SLT. In a previous life, I worked as an HCA and so carried out all of those things you mentioned but without attending any training courses beforehand. Typically, HCAs learn those things on the wards through supervision much the same way we learnt our SLT clinical skills. You'll be absolutely fine becoming competent at carrying out these skills with shadowing.

@koalabear73 see my above post! I @ you incorrectly.

OT, being redeployed from a specialist role to rehab. Have not done this sort of work for several years and a lot will have changed so a bit worried about what the expectation is. Also in a completely different locale, so not even familiar with services in the area. I have seen on some documentation that we can expect to be redeployed for 6 - 12 months !

@Qwerty543, I was wondering the same thing.

I am band 2 admin under health records.

We received an email last week re redeployment from our management, and were asked to volunteer. If no one volunteers, they’ll redeploy us anyway.

I’ve volunteered. So let’s see what happens.

Are people actually needed in their new roles? In my trust the wards are empty apart from dtoc, A&E is like a ghost town, there's nothing doing anywhere.

I'm in the 'next wave' to be redeployed. Our trust put us into grades for who would go first and the first lot start next week
I'm feeling pretty nervous about it although do want to 'do my bit' and miss clinical work (I'm a band 3 community support worker) just hope I get a supportive team and can learn quickly and not be a burden
We have had mixed messages- one day we are about to be moved the next we won't be needed yet etc etc everything changes daily
Have moments where I feel a bit like the blackadder 'over the top' episode but I am quite a worse case scenario person in a crisis so not helpful thinking ! On a positive day I think that it will be an opportunity to see what it's like on a hospital ward as I am considering applying for nurse training and if I can cope with how things are now I will be able to cope with anything !
Good luck everyone