Hello from Bolton FT’s New Knowledge and Library Service Lead
I feel a little like a GSCE Geography case study at the moment as I’m migrating from the south west to the north west, but I am happy with that.…
New Starter Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Library
My name is Linda Kalinda, and I'm an enthusiastic believer in improving the world through Knowledge, and hold closely the notion of continual learning throughout life. Inherently underpinning these beliefs is the concept of knowledge sharing which I fully endorse and hope to achieve through our networks.…
Kirsty Lee - New Starter Bradford District Care Trust
My name is Kirsty and I joined Bradford District Care NHS Trust as Research & Library Administrator in November 2020. Starting a new job can be quite daunting and even more so during the COVID pandemic.…
New Starter - Flora Chatt, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
Having graduated with a History degree, I decided very quickly that I wanted to work in a library or archive setting. I’ve previously worked mostly in archives, first helping to organise the newly formed collection at Greene King (the brewing company) before moving on to a graduate traineeship at the Oxford University Archives. I moved up to the north west recently to start studying a part time MA in Archives and Records Management at the University of Liverpool.…
New starter at York and our Health Information Week summary
This is a bit of a late ‘new starter’ post, as I actually started all the way back at the beginning of February! In my defence, it has been a very strange year…My name is Kathryn Aylward and I’m the new Assistant Librarian at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.…
New Starter at the Northern Care Alliance - Ramona Naicker
Hello everyone, I’m Ramona Naicker and I recently started as a Library and Information Specialist within the Library & Knowledge Service at the Northern Care Alliance.…
New Starter - Iris (Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust)
Hi everyone, I’m Iris and I’ve recently joined Andrew, Helen, Erica and Dawn at the Evidence Service in Mersey Care. I’m training to become a fully-fledged researcher, doing literature based discovery, this is my first time working in healthcare so everything is quite new to me.…
New Starter - Emma Dent (Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust)
Five years ago, a move back up north after the best part of 20 years in London made it logistically and financially possible to fulfil my long held ambition to retrain. I trained as a journalist in my early 20s and had been freelancing part time since having my children but librarianship was always something I was interested in.…
New Starter - Graham Breckon
Although not technically a new starter, after moving from Wirral to Chester after almost 16 years is certainly a new beginning. Having qualified in 1999, I worked for Wirral Libraries before moving to Arrowe Park in 2003 to a new Site Librarian role.…
New Starter - Erica Hateley, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
2018 was a big year for me. After deciding to pursue a mid-life career change away from higher education teaching and research, I started my professional journey as a librarian by enrolling in a Library and Information Management postgraduate course at Manchester Metropolitan University.…