Made contact, making progress

Direct contact finally made this morning as promised in yesterday’s phone messages. I have a phone-back slot arranged for the early afternoon.

Undertook a thirty five minute interview with a former senior colleague to get back onto the staff bank. Much of it was spent in formally establishing my right to work in the UK(!), my right to work as a registered nurse and health visitor, my prior and current skills, my present health status, my families health status and finally what hours and in what capacity and location I would prefer to work. In summary it looks unlikely that I will have any direct face to face Covid-19 work offered. It is far more likely I will be shoring up community child health services in some way, shape or form. The interview concluded with an offer to return to NHS Lothian on a fixed term contract until the end of July pending follow up of references.

There are still some administrative and induction tasks to get through which will hopefully be possible over the next few days of this week and perhaps I may get back to some kind of work sometime next week? Fingers crossed.