💥 GDS Local is hiring! 💥 We are recruiting for three roles. Associate PM, Senior UR, Senior Service Designer - links in thread🧵 The roles are located in Bristol, London or Manchester.
Aoife
@chiefbreenie.bsky.social
product manager disabled and liver transplant recipient whippet owner/servant she/her
Hallo! I have finally got my bum in gear and posted the next upcoming One Team Gov meetups, both in-person (London) and virtual, if you want to sign up you can do so on the link below and please RT! www.linkedin.com/posts/onetea...
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We've had a great start to the year with 3 in-person breakfasts in London and 3 virtual OTG meetups. We've just listed the next 3 months meetups and you'll find them on Luma here: https://lnkd.in/eViN...
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I would really like to do some user research on the 2 mins 10 seconds of pre amble when I try to call my GP telling me about flu vaccines, child nasal flu vaccines, COVID symptoms, and what time I can ring for things. What does *any* of this achieve?
Last week I had to go to the GP to fill in my name, address, phone no., email and NHS no., on a paper form and then hand it to the receptionist for her to verify from The System. She stamped it and handed it back to me and then I posted it to another bit of the NHS. This... Doesn't need to exist.
We're looking to fill a couple of Senior Content Designer roles across the OPG and Probation digital teams www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Senior Content Designer:National
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
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Come join @rumens.uk and me at GDS Local as our Senior Delivery Manager. Closing date: 9 Feb Location: Bristol, London, Manchester. Help us bridge central and local gov digital to create seamless experiences for users. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Come join @rumens.uk and me at GDS Local as our Senior Delivery Manager. Closing date: 9 Feb Location: Bristol, London, Manchester. Help us bridge central and local gov digital to create seamless experiences for users. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Please please vaccinate your child against measles. This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
UK Health Security Agency@ukhsa.bsky.social · 6mo agoUKHSA responds to the confirmation from @WHO that the UK has lost its measles elimination status. Read more from WHO here: https://bit.ly/3YZuOFa
As a user I need to know if my clinic permanently changes location so that I can attend my appointments.
One Team Gov virtual is happening this Wednesday, if you want to you can still sign up here: forms.gle/PEQ669VijpXZ...
One Team Gov VIRTUAL sign up form
We plan to meet virtually once per month on the third Wednesday of the month Each meetup will use Lean Coffee with the agenda set by the people who attend on the day. Where? Online meeting (Most li...
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The Roadmap for Modern Digital Government has a commitment that GDS works with #localgov to co-create a vision including shared products and components of a technology stack. If this is of interest to you what are your thoughts? roadmap-for-modern-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/join-up-serv...
Joining up public services through stronger local and central government collaboration
GDS Local is driving collaboration between central and local government to build faster, user-centred digital services.
roadmap-for-modern-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk
Probs a day for tea and seed sorting and tentatively stepping into the garden and reconquering the veg beds from the squirrels and their hidden nuts. Gardening has helped my sometimes-a-bit-anxious-and-sad brain rethink January and reimagine it for all the possibilities of the coming growing year.
I have no idea what time I'll get in but I am at least on a train to Birmingham #ukgc26 Come talk to me about GDS Local - keen to hear any thoughts about opportunities or learnings and generally mingle with folks interested in all things #localgov
Aoife@chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 7mo agoGood news! The (delayed) 09:16 is boarding.
PSA for those heading from London to Birmingham for @ukgovcamp.com - all trains from Euston currently cancelled, head to St Pancras and change at Leicester... #govcamp
My prescription fee exemption cert expires soon. To get it renewed, my GP must full out the FP92A paper form return it by post (there's also a process to order copies of this form!). But I also need to put in a request to ask my GP to do this process. This process feels like it could be better...
Made some Irish brown bread. Added a bit too much wheat bran. The crust tastes almost like digestive biscuits. That's a win, I reckon!
Rounding out 2025 walking with my favourite boy along one of our favourite walks in North Devon - on the cliffs, undulating beside the sea. Zero hospital admissions this year which makes for a change from the last few years!
My 13th Christmas with my donated liver. This year, for the first time, I've had some irregular blood tests and no answers yet so I go into 2026 with uncertainty. I find myself even more grateful for more than a decade of totally normal function. Banality is the greatest gift. Merry Christmas 🎄 🎁
My colleague @juliacushion.bsky.social made a “sunlight optimism” spreadsheet, my colleague @zarino.co.uk said there should be a postcode lookup version, I have the day off, the kid has gone swimming, and so, I present: The Sunlight Optimism Calculator: dracos.co.uk/made/sunligh...
If you’re not doing anything at 8.40, you should join a chunk of Irish people as we watch the solstice online. RTÉ radio news just made a point of saying that there is no cloud cover over Newgrange today. bsky.app/profile/bike...
Oisín Murphy-Lawless@bikesnbukes.eurosky.social · 8mo ago8 hours twenty minutes to go before #newgrangesolstice 2025, folks! The good doctors Clare and Frank will be back again to accompany the winter light slowly illuminating Newgrange’s burial chamber. Go here for details of where you can watch. www.gov.ie/en/office-of...
New blog post: Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/why-do-people-leave-comments-on-openbenches/ I'm still a believer in the promise of Web 2.0. The idea that giving people a curated space to chat produces tiny sparks of magic. My wife Liz and I have …
Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?
I'm still a believer in the promise of Web 2.0. The idea that giving people a curated space to chat produces tiny sparks of magic. My wife Liz and I have been running the OpenBenches project for about 8 years - it's a crowd-sourced repository of memorial benches. People take a geotagged photo of a bench's plaque, upload it to our site, and we share it with the world. Might sound a bit niche,…
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And that's a wrap on work for this year as well as my time at MHCLG (for now). New things in the new year... But first, some rest.
My year as a product manager in the public sector unwrapped: - 0.5 FTE saying "but what problem does this solve?" - 0.2 FTE saying "that sounds like a great assumption we can test" when some announces their opinion. - 0.2 FTE cursing Mural. - 0.1 FTE sighing.
This is an absolute treat to watch. There's something quite evocative about seeing in real time a moment of intense connection to the past and the natural present simultaneously.
Office of Public Works@opwireland.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting. Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment. 🔗www.gov.ie/solstice #ShareTheSolstice
Forget to share this milestone: we are back to lengthening evenings. Yesterday the sun set a whole 8 seconds later than on Sunday. 🕯️✨
The Grand Drawing In@theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 8mo agoToday is 2025-12-15, the sun sets at 16:05:51 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 08 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
Plus ‘Digital’ as a brand (IMO) has been incredibly damaging, as it’s just pigeonholed us into tech delivery- rather than a problem solving profession, whether the solution is a product or not.