INSTITUTE NEWS IHEEM’s ‘vision’ caught new recruit’s eye
In August IHEEM welcomed new Events and Marketing Support Officer, Yasmin Brewer, who has joined the Head Office team after recently graduating from Havant and South Downs College, where she successfully completed a certificate course in Business Enterprise Level 3. She also has ‘A’ levels in Psychology, Criminology, and Sociology. After leaving Portchester Community School in Hampshire, she gained valuable work experience while working part time and attending college full time. Her work experience to date – and particularly a three-year spell in the retail and hospitality sector – has allowed her to gain confidence and skills in communication.
Working at the Holiday Inn Express in Gunwharf, Portsmouth, her main responsibilities included welcoming guests, and ensuring that customer expectations were met during their stay, and helping to make sure that the hotel was kept clean and presentable. She said: “My part-time job was a great way to work on my confidence and communication skills, as well as to gain real-life experience to go alongside my
learning”. While with the hotel group, she also worked as a Team Leader, and ‘front of house’, handling guest enquires and complaints. To date she says her business course has taught her a lot about diversity, marketing, and business administration – which is what gave her the confidence to apply for the Events and Marketing Support Officer Role.
When asked what particularly attracted her to IHEEM, Yasmin said: “I became interested in the job after looking on the Institute’s website and reading about its ‘vision’ and ‘mission’, as well its values and behaviours. After studying Business Enterprise, I know that having set values is key to the success of a business’s focus. When I saw that the Institute embraces innovation, diversity, and equality, the role really appealed to me, as I believe strongly in diversity, and I thus knew that IHEEM would be a great place to work. The fact that the Institute clearly looks after its members and staff also caught
‘Unique’ electrical retrofit solutions
Electrical Distribution Solutions (EDS), a privately-owned electrical distribution and control specialist based in Wolverhampton, has joined IHEEM as a Company Affiliate Member.
The company’s headquarters and works are located within range of the M6, giving it a direct route to customers in both the north and south of the UK. Business Development Manager, Mike Porter, said: “The ethos within EDS is one of customer collaboration, and a ‘can do’ approach, while maintaining a high standard of engineering practice and product quality, and ensuring that customers are always completely satisfied.”
EDS has designed wht it says
are the only one-hour retrofit solutions to replace the GEC, Ellison, and Ottermill low voltage air circuit breakers, which it also manufactures and installs. It says many of these historic products are found throughout NHS hospitals’ electrical infrastructure. “With the ever-increasing pressure on financial budgets, retrofitting is an innovative, technically sound, and cost-effective solution to managing obsolescence associated with historic equipment,” Mike Porter explained. “This solution extends the life of low voltage
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switchboards by another 20 or more years. The EDS retrofit solutions are unique, in that installation can, in most cases, be achieved without busbar isolation.” EDS says retrofitting the latest generation air circuit breakers into existing switchboards ‘provides enhanced circuit protection, and enables remote control, thereby increasing operator safety’. It also removes hazardous substances, such as asbestos and Cadmium, from associated switchrooms.
Mike Porter explained that EDS’s main reasons for joining IHEEM as a Company Affiliate were two-fold. He said: “Joining such a well-known and respected Professional Engineering Institute provides visibility to all levels of personnel within the healthcare sector of EDS as a company, and the solutions within the EDS portfolio. It also provides an avenue for EDS to present its offering in greater detail to the right people within the sector. Our aim is always to develop a collaborative approach with prospective customers, so that we can deliver solutions which could resolve issues they may have with historic infrastructure, and assist them in ensuring that their power supplies are more resilient and reliable.”
my eye, because I know I will be well supported and will learn a lot”.
She added “I love to put myself out of my comfort zone, and enjoy meeting new people. Promoting the Institute’s events, and helping Melissa organise IHEEM conferences, is something I am looking forward to, as well as to becoming more of an active member of the IHEEM team, meeting members, and starting to put faces to names. “Outside of work,” she
explained, “I love to travel, to meet new people and experience different cultures, to see new places, and to try new food. I would love to be able to travel more in the future, and to see more of the world when it is safe to do so; I in fact used to live abroad. If I had to choose one thing I couldn’t live without, however, it would be my cat. I love animals so much, and I don’t know what I would do without them; they bring so much love, and I recommend getting a pet if you haven’t already.”
Diary dates
18-22 OCTOBER Healthcare Estates 2021 hybrid conference and exhibition. T: 01892 518877;
www.healthcare-estates.com E:
healthcare@step-exhibitions.com
25-26 NOV Digital World Health Congress 2021, Kensington Conference & Events Centre, London. T: 0208 938 3258.
www.digitalhealthcareworldcongress.com
IHEEM/TAHPI online Healthcare Facility Planning Course 1-12 NOV – Q4
IHEEM/TAHPI online Health Facility Briefing System Tools & Techniques briefing system course
29 & 30 NOV – Q4
For further details on both the above training courses, E:
training@iheem.org.uk; T: 02392 823 186
2022
16-17 MAY IHEEM Dublin 2022 ‘Delivering Sustainable Healthcare Estates’ Conference, Exhibition and Awards Dinner 2022, Croke Park, Dublin. T: 02392 823 186; E:
dublin2020@iheem.org.uk
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