Nursery World - My week at work: On call

If medical staff feel confident that their children are well looked after, this can only be good for us all, says NHS childcare co-ordinator Sara Mousley

Monday

Up at 5.45am as youngest teenage son needs taking to the station to catch a train to college. Hit the office at 7.45am. Priorities are coffee, breakfast bar, unanswered e-mails and phone messages. By 8am the phone is ringing with the first emergency of the week.

My role is a relatively new one within the NHS, supporting the implementation of the NHS Childcare Strategy, set out in the Department of Health's NHS Plan. I'm childcare co-ordinater for the Central Campus of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust covering four hospitals. The staff provide me with just about every conceivable childcare problem going - and it's my job to sort them out.

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