Fourty-fourth week (26/10/20 - 30/10/20)

This week I had a review with Emma and we discussed my progress, what further evidence I need and what I need to do next to prepare for my EPA. This includes writing a personal statement, my synoptic project, getting all my off the job training hours up and more. Eek!

We had our weekly team meeting as usual and our dream team meeting.

The press release template is 100% completed and ready to be edited when we send out our quarterly emails. This month however we forgot to create an Equiniti newsletter, so I made one quickly the day before and it was only a one-pager. Whoops! I was focusing too much on the emails.

Zaheer has been having trouble accessing Adobe Acrobat to work on tenders so I have been in contact with Carl to allow him to use theirs as I have been.

On our Cliff Richard show meeting we went over our Trello board tasks as usual.

Ahmed is back next week! Me and Simon had a meeting with him to talk through what's been going on and what we're doing and what he'll be working on.

I reported this months reporting information for GCloud 12 - no business yet!

Nicola from escalla emailed me asking to confirm my address for my certificates and I made sure I did.

I had a quick meeting with Rob and Simon about a request for quotation we got from someone who found us on GCloud - we discovered they were already a client of ours! They're both now working on a renewal for them.

Rob asked me to quickly make up one of the product selection graphics for PReP and MSF. I made one and quickly sent it over.

I made some changes to the RCR document I have been making for Simon which we are sending out soon.

Fourty-third week! (19/10/20 - 23/10/20)

This week I had a meeting with Simon where he showed me how to research the Royal Colleges for our RCPath project. I have created a spreadsheet to record my findings on and log any contacts I find. He has given me until the 12th of November to finish this - Ahmed will be helping when he gets back from furlough next month. I am also currently making a flyer based on the USP's for this project.

I had a quick catchup with Zaheer regarding the e-Rostering collateral which we still haven't managed to finish. He has promised that by next week he'll be able to help me with writing the content as we have the design finished but no text! I also showed him how we are all currently using Zoho, the Audit log etc.

In our weekly Cliff Richard Suggs show meeting we went over and set new Trello tasks as always and we discussed a potential meetup on the 20th of November. My tasks are as follows:

-G-Cloud 12 Report MI (monthly)

-The Showreel (I'm currently making demo's of what the actual showreel will look like since we have received appropriate screengrabs to use from colleagues)

-Patient Feedback Infographic - I am going to use the Future of Patient Feedback piece of collateral I made to create a new infographic outlining the steps.

-e-Learning Campaign - I am still working on the brochure and such for the e-Learning team.

-Press Release email - Me and Simon are working on bespoke press release emails.

-Portals research - Simon has given me until November 16th to get this done

-Courses and G-Cloud 12 Report - Before my review with Emma next week I need to make sure I have completed some courses and made a start with my G-Cloud 12 report.

I booked annual leave on Friday afternoon so I could go and take my driving theory test and I failed! So I've booked annual leave again for the afternoon on the 12th to retake it.

Fourty-second week! (12/10/20 - 16/10/20)

This week we decided we need to start separating the contacts on Mailchimp to prevent as many people unsubscribing as possible. For example we were sending the all Premier IT newsletter to every single contact - we have now decided we're going to tag the relevant contacts to send.

I asked Natalia to send me a list of USPs for our RCPath win - I've made a spreadsheet to record all the research I find about the potential clients from the Royal Colleges. There are 23 of them, so I need to dig deep into their websites to find out what software they are already using.

I submitted a summary of what I have done since my last review to Emma and she used this to complete my monitoring and progress review.

I completed and uploaded my TC5 evidence report and Metrics/Google Analytics report to Skilsure and made any required changes.

I had a meeting with Siva Singh from escalla and Simon to take him through all of the new collateral I have created recently.

With Simon, we completed my USAB testimonies and these have been signed off on Skilsure.

On Friday a few of us ventured up to the office again. We went through our tasks on Trello boards and discussed further action points. I also discussed my future at the company with Simon. He says once my apprenticeship ends, he's going to interview me again and I'm expected to present to him in a job description/business case/presentation what I want to do for the company as a Level 4 apprentice. He knows I'm not confident with this kind of stuff but I do want to overcome my fear so I have no problem with it.

During Friday's meeting I received an email from someone interested in our Job Planning. I alerted Simon and Will and we are in the process of yet another new client!

Matias from LevelUP Networks asked me to send him the newsletter that his company featured in last month so I did so.

I have also done some small tasks including converting our heads of engagement documents from PDF to Word (thank god for Adobe Acrobat!) and other documents.

Fourtieth week! (5/10/20 - 9/10/20)

This week the main priority has been finishing and submitting our HSSF Response. I worked with Zaheer and Simon in meetings throughout the week to make sure everything was answered and we submitted it on Friday before the deadline of 12pm. Now we just have to wait until the end of October to find out if we have been accepted.

We had a meeting where John showed us the updated MAG lite form on one of our systems and I worked with Tiff, Rob and Tim to create an email to go out to clients to inform them about the changes.

I had a meeting with Simon to go over the recurring service revenue poster that I created.

Instead of our weekly dream team meeting, I joined Simon, Tim and Rob with David Jamieson - we're working on some campaigns together.

This week Zaheer did his sales plans presentation, the last of them. Simon asked me to change the recurrence of these meetings to every 4 weeks so we can check progress.

In the weekly team meeting this week I did my own 'welcome to my world' presentation where I spoke about myself, my background, my role and what I'm working on. It was nerve-wracking but I got through it!!!

I made some changes to the PReP heads of engagement and turned it into a template so it's easier to make changes to when we have a new client.

We had a meeting to discuss our RCPath win - I've been given the task researching other colleges and facilities to see what systems they're using. We also need a list of USP's, which I'm going to ask Natalia for. We want to create a flyer/poster about the trainees portfolio.

On our weekly 'Cliff Richard' meeting on Friday we went through our Trello board tasks. For me, tasks such as the Showreel, the e-Learning brochure and e-Rostering collateral were put on hold to focus on the HSSF Framework submission.

I've used Mailchimp to start creating our press release style email to replace the newsletters. For now we have just filled it with content from previous newsletters but the style and design looks pretty good. We're going to keep on working on this as well as bespoke ones to send to trusts on the 1st of November.

I collected our September metrics and wrote my monthly report to Simon.

Thirty-nineth week! (28/9/20 - 2/10/20)

 This week I have mainly been trying to finish off the HSSF Framework since the deadline is October 9th. Zaheer, Andy and Simon have been helping me - it's not as long as GCloud but still is a lot of work. We've had many meetings trying to complete this and have another to review it on Monday.

The newsletters for this month have been finished off and the Equiniti one has been sent - Natalia was supposed to send out the Premier IT but I've decided I will do it myself on Monday. We finally got Zaheer's e-Rostering pieces and Rob's Remote Consultations piece.

I had a nice catchup meeting with Zaheer to discuss the creation of e-Rostering collateral (this is a target from my last escalla review)

Simon still wants me to become the Champion of ZOHO - I'm holding a 'workshop' at the end of the month for the key people who use it/should be using it. I had a brief meeting with Rob and he showed me what he currently does and uses on the system which was really helpful. I'm going to continue teaching myself in my own time.

Also on the meeting with Rob we chose some more Shutterstock clips to use for the showreel for each product. He's going to look at the best parts of each system to showcase then we can put the together for a demo.

And as usual we had our weekly team meeting - next week I have to do my own 'welcome to my world' piece next week to talk about myself and what I do...

We had our usual dream team meeting and Friday meeting where we went over our Trello board tasks.