Communications Assistant Review

This gave me a chance to grow as an individual and be respected for my individuality, creativity and general work approach.

The whole experience was helped along by the willingness of staff and colleagues to accept me and support me in my decisions , my whole experience and employee relations was built on the encouragement and belief in me from my peers. They where all so friendly and accomodating I have remand friends with all of the people I worked alongside.

Although I was able to take on tasks for myself and complete them to the required expectations of peers and management. I still modelled my experience on my line manager and aspired to become as confident and as skillful as he is. I learned a great deal from him and there where several opportunities where by he advised me to seek development to enable me to improve.

I like to keep busy, I thrive on a busy enviroment and regularly developed areas of the website or the campaign in quieter periods.

I was given the opportunity to oversee the work taken on by other students, giving me an insight into managing people, at the time the main full time staff members was my line manager and myself, therefore there were often periods that I had to take responsibility and manage myself and my tasks so that the department could maintain projects and achieve targets. With regards to the sexual health campaign "Love is Infectious" I managed the marketing activity and arranged promotional materials, social media accounts and was also involved in some local news coverage and photographs.

Although noones career or personal development is never completed, I feel that the skills I have aquired on placement has shaped my whole approach to my working life. I trained in a range of areas and was exposed to raw public relations, this enviroment highlighted the career I wish to follow , I have found my passion in life. Having now returned to university, I have much more understanding through aquired knowledge , increased respect for my lecturers and tutors and a much more determined and focused attitude and approach to development.

Sexual Health to Prison Healthcare, the atmosphere was never dull, quite the opposite, through times of increased workload our team was remained motivated and positive.

I think the process was great, however in future a possible area for improvement for candidates would be to incorporate a team building exercises, this would increase communication between the team members and give the intern the opportunity to display their personality and get to know the members of the team fully. I was lucky , getting my job straight from the end of level 2 teaching and therefore I was able to put the learning into practice, however team building exercises and getting to know the organisation helped me to understand how all the services fitted together.

I recieved quite a lot of training opportunities, however one particular session I wanted to experience was presenting with style this unfortunately had to be cancelled due to adverse weather, andI was unable to reschedule. Every other area, I suggested for development was identified and I was given material to read and evaluate or I was recommended certain techniques to improve.

I have been asked to return on a self employed basis and now I manage the online PR, web development, staff intranet and external patient and stakeholder website.

There was regular nights out, meals and get togethers which I was involved in and made long lasting friendships.

I live at home with my parents so there was no great difference in cost of living for me, and any social activities that we did where all within the budget of all of the team members.

The city is great for socialising, one particular social event meant one of our clients treated my line manager and myself to a summer evening event at the races , which i thouroughly enjoyed.

Occasionally ...The national health service offers a range of querky activites through their wide partnerships, these ranged from the more extreme experiences such as SCUBA diving lessons or even indian head massages and alternative complimentary therapies like yoga, health and well being events and team marathons, I completed a 5k for my team and for a girl whos staple wardrobe is stilettos and only exercise is running round the shops this was a big achievement for me. I was proud that the sponsor design of our organisations team running T-shirts displayed the Love is Infectious logo, this inspired me more !