Heartbeat July 2018

More documents

Info

Birmingham bank creates better environment for patients YOUR TRUST CHARITY @SWBHCharity To donate to the Your Trust Charity text “SWBH16 £5” to 70070 A team of bankers were on hand to transform three wards at Sandwell Hospital – thanks to Your Trust Charity. Sixteen members of the audit team, from HSBC UK in Birmingham, volunteered their time to spruce up the play areas in Lyndon Ground and Lyndon 1 and create a memory wall in the reminiscence room for dementia patients in Lyndon 4. They spent two days revamping the areas which will lead to enhancing the patient experience. Amanda Winwood, Fundraising Manager for Your Trust Charity, said: “The charity and our colleagues on the wards are very grateful to HSBC for giving their time and transforming the areas for our patients, creating a nicer environment. “These projects are very important for our patients, because if they have a better environment it helps with their rehabilitation and their patient journey as a whole. The finished areas are bright and colourful, whilst also relaxing for the patients.” On Lyndon Ground, an underwater-themed play area was created, which boasted a submarine, fish, dolphin and sea mural. Whilst Lyndon 1 was given a jungle theme, featuring pictures of monkeys, giraffes and the ‘animal alphabet’. Amanda added: “On Lyndon 4, we created a reminiscence room for our older patients. We’ve been in touch with Sandwell Council, Sandwell Archives, and the West Bromwich History Group who have kindly donated old photographs of how the area used to look. We have put these up onto the wall and hope that they will encourage the patients to talk about their memories.” Sue Vanja, Administrator Manager from HSBC, said: “We regularly have volunteering days where we carry out work like this on important projects. It is really great that we get to do this as it means going into our community and giving something back.” Some of the audit team from HSBC who have been transforming patient areas The play area on Lyndon Ground has been completely transformed A reminiscence room has been created on Lyndon 4 to help patients talk about their memories Chan gets the chop for charity In Heartbeat last month we brought you the story of Chan, one of our audiologists who was raising money for our neonatal unit through Your Trust Charity, by cutting his hair and beard which he had been growing for over 15 months. On 11 July, Chan was welcomed in The Gentleman Barbers in Brindley Place where his friend and barber, Damian Wasniak was waiting with clippers and cut throat razors at the ready to tackle the growing beard and barnet to complete Chan’s makeover. Chan initially aimed to raise £1,000 but with the support of family and friends managed to double this to an amazing £2,295. Chan’s first child, Chayten was born prematurely and spent the first four months of his life in the care of the neonatal team at City hospital. Chan said: “When Chayten was born, it was the most stressful and worrying time of our lives and it was our faith in God that kept us going. It was during this time that I began growing my hair and beard in honour of my son. “Now that Chayten is 15 months, I thought what better way to mark the occasion than by having it a shaved off for charity and donate all of the money raised to the neonatal department” Since losing the locks and regaining his youthful looks Chan continues to raise money for Your Trust Charity and would like to encourage colleagues who would like to donate or help raise further funds to get in touch. If you would like to take on a challenge to help raise some much needed funds for a worthy cause, get in touch with Your Trust Charity on ext. 4847 or email Amanda.winwood@nhs.net. Before and after – Chan’s haircut raised over £2,000 for Your Trust Charity 6
Diversity and inclusion – the golden thread of our organisation Diversity and inclusion have naturally become the cornerstones of our organisation, bringing together colleagues from every nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability. Our dedication to diversity and inclusion is now being recognised nationally – we have recently been awarded a silver rating by the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (ENEI) in the inaugural TIDE awards. Only 35 awards were given out throughout the UK with our organisation being highlighted for how we embraced diversity, including staff members marching in Birmingham PRIDE, celebrations around the Muslim religious events Iftar and Eid, changing the recruitment process, and launching a new transgender policy to support patients and colleagues. It’s the first time ENEI, which works with the Government, has introduced the benchmark status. Raffaela Goodby, Director of People and Organisation Development said: “We are privileged to receive this national benchmarking award, and it is testament to the progress we have made to become a more inclusive organisation. I would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work, commitment and dedication.” Our work has also been recognised at the Back Row: L-R: Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Stuart Young; Charge Nurse, David Powell; Charge Nurse, Mick Beech. Front Row L-R: Assistant Primary Care Manager, Donna Mighty and Trust Convener, Chris Rickards National Diversity Awards, where we have four nominations in the final selection process. We are shortlisted for Diverse Company of the Year award, whilst our LGBT and BME staff networks, along with our Muslim liaison group are in the staff engagement network of the year category with Stuart Young shortlisted in the Head of Diversity and Inclusion category. Stuart told Heartbeat: “We have worked really hard to develop our culture into one of inclusion, diversity and acceptance of everyone, allowing each and every person to be an individual and feel able to bring their whole selves to work – allowing them to focus more on the patients in our care and the needs of our teams and departments. “We have moved forward in leaps and bounds in the last couple of years with the change being led by our Board and executive team. We have established three staff networks, with a fourth coming soon, who work as critical friends to the organisation, celebrating the positives and encouraging changes to be made when opportunities arise. “In the last 12 months we have celebrated and commemorated religious holidays, LGBT History Month, Windrush 70, Fiesta, NHS 70, Disability Awareness Month, Black History Month and the 100 year anniversary of women getting the vote. “As well as our staff networks, we have a dedicated team of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians who encourage colleagues to have their say and there is our Local Interest Group that is made up of members of the local community who look at our equality and diversity work streams in all of our work from a service users perspective.” “This is the best nursing recruitment event I have ever been to!” A recruitment event held at Sandwell Hospital has been hailed a success after more than 40 conditional job offers were handed out on the day. An estimated 100 visitors came to the jobs fair, held at the education centre on 23 June, and were left overwhelmed with the warm welcome from our nursing teams. Qualified nurse Shelly Hubbard, who was offered a job on the spot following her successful interview, said: “When I saw the advert for the recruitment event, I did not hesitate in applying. “The Trust has a great reputation, especially when it comes to the extensive support it offers for nurses. “So when I came to the event, I knew instantly that I had made the right decision. "Everyone was so welcoming, friendly and cheerful. I felt like I was already part of the organisation. I think the event was well organised and from my experience of visiting other trusts’ recruitment events, this is the best one. “I’m really glad that I was able to secure the offer and I can’t wait to join the organisation.” Paul Hooton, Deputy Chief Nurse, said: “The recruitment event was very successful. The majority of people who came on the day were appointable and we are very pleased they will be joining our nursing team. “In September, we will be welcoming more than 50 newly qualified nurses to our organisation. “With the success from recent recruitment CORPORATE & GENERAL NEWS activities, we expect to fill up all vacancies soon, ensuring safe staffing levels and the best patient care possible. “I would like to express my gratitude to all the teams involved in making the event successful. Every one of them went the extra mile to make sure we recruited the best nurses for our organisation. This is truly a team effort.” Some of the team involved in the recruitment fayre 7
Page 1 and 2: July 2018 Sandwell and West Birming
Page 3 and 4: Colleagues celebrate NHS 70 in styl
Page 5: Unity end user training - are you b
Page 9 and 10: Colleagues come together to celebra
Page 11 and 12: To: Joanne Wright For doing so well
Page 13 and 14: Unity - how ready are you? Later th
Page 16 and 17: Putting our waste to good use waste
Page 18 and 19: AMU team present at Birmingham Medi
Page 20 and 21: 20 Trust allergy service is first t
Page 22 and 23: Fiona says goodbye after 20 years a
Page 24 and 25: 24 News in brief from around our or
Page 26 and 27: Letters, of less than 200 words ple
Page 28: Events Diary August 2018 EVENT DATE

Heartbeat July 2018

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?