Monthly archives: April 2018
Tracey’s essential holistic & beauty therapy taster treatments: Rowley Regis
Holistic and Beauty Therapist, Tracey Moore is hosting a wellbeing taster treatments open day at Rowley Regis on Thursday 3 May.
Treatments include hand and arm, shoulder and neck massages.
For more information contact Tracey on 07716 811038 or email tracey.moore7@btinternet.com
Brand new cars with Tusker
Log in to your benefits portal to get a quote and a view a full range of brand new cars available through the Tusker employee benefits scheme.
The fixed monthly amount covers insurance, road tax, replacement tyres, breakdown cover, servicing, MOT and maintenance.
Also, if you order a brand new car during April or May you will be entered into a competition to be in with the chance of having the first 12 months of finance paid for courtesy of Tusker.
For more information regarding Tusker please call 0333 400 7431 or email EET@tuskerdirect.com.
To find out more about all of our employee benefits throughout the Trust please contact amir.ali1@nhs.net.
Sandwell Weight Watchers launch: 29 May
Health professionals who want to find out more about what Weight Watchers can offer their patients, can attend the Sandwell Weight Watchers launch event on Tuesday 29 May from 1pm – 4pm at West Bromwich Town Hall.
The event aims to showcase what Weight Watchers can offer and how health professionals can utilise this commissioned service to reduce Obesity rates across Sandwell.
For more information and to attend, please contact lewis_pountney@sandwell.gov.uk.
Job of the week: Band 7 secondment opportunity with Unity
Are you interested in making a difference and supporting your clinical colleagues to ensure they are ready for Unity?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an informatics clinician within the Unity team. The secondment will be for 6 months and is open to nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
You must be enthusiastic about championing the use of technology to improve practice. We are looking for clinical colleagues with an interest in improving care through digital systems, part of Jane Cummings, 10 commitments.
The role will report to and be supported by the informatics matron. Skills required for this role include change management and presentation skills. You will be required to champion Unity at ward /department level which will involve delivering awareness sessions, promoting Unity at meetings, visiting clinical areas and liaising/educating clinical colleagues.
Support will be provided to learn and understand Unity. You must have basic IT skills such as email management and Word documents.
If you are interested and want to find out more, please contact Sharon Reynolds on 07971 303328.
Folic acid research – seeking women aged 40-70
The Trust are currently seeking post-menopausal women (either healthy volunteers or breast or endometrial cancer survivors) aged 40-70 to take part in a research study looking at using folic acid to help treat menopausal flushes.
Volunteers would need to take folic acid or a placebo tablet for 12 weeks.
Recruitment for the trial is due to close on Friday 4 May.
For more information please contact laurabutler3@nhs.net
Apprenticeship information sessions during April 2018
As the Aspiring to Excellence Personal Development Review (PDR) period gets underway, colleagues within the Trust are being urged to consider apprenticeships as a form of development.
Apprenticeships on offer through the Trust include:
- Business Administration Level 2 & 3
- Customer Service Practitioner Level 2
- Team Leading Level 3
- Healthcare Support Worker Level 2 & Senior Healthcare Support Worker Level 3
With major reforms to apprenticeships introduced in 2017 the range of apprenticeships are expanding up to Level 7.
Details of apprenticeship standards currently available and in development
Colleagues within SWBH can also seek guidance about clinical and non-clinical higher level & degree level apprenticeship options paid for by the Trust.
To find out more about the variety of apprenticeships available why not come along to one of our information sessions in April at Sandwell or City Hospital.
| Date | Venue | Staff Information & Assessment Session
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Manager Information Session
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| Friday 20th April | Room 12, Education Centre, Sandwell
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9-11am | 11am-1pm |
The Vamps – discounted tickets
The organisers for The Vamps concert have kindly offered Trust employees discounted tickets for the evening performances at Genting Arena on Friday 4 May at 7.30pm.
Selected tickets are complimentary with a £2.55 fulfilment fee per order.
Tickets can only be purchased as an e-ticket in advance from The Ticket Factory website here – select ‘£C * £0.00 to £29.15’ and look for the gold star NHS Offer.
For more information please contact amir.ali1@nhs.net
Oracle intermittent issues update
There is a fault causing intermittent problems with requisition processing and approvals.
We recognise that this is frustrating and apologise for the inconvenience that this is causing.
This fault is due to a post-implementation patch applied by Oracle the system provider.
Oracle are giving top-level attention to this matter and resolution is expected in days not weeks.
The system has significant benefits and we will work hard to ensure all users experience that.
Making the system work for you – self-help and call for help
The system will tell you if you experience an error, either as a warning when you click on ‘Manage Approvals’ or once submitted , the requisition will reject.
If you experience this, there are steps you can take to resolve it:
Edit the requisition, check the approvals hierarchy and resubmit.
This may take a number of attempts until successful.
Please do not use the ‘Old’ Oracle system to raise or approve requisitions. All requisitions should be actioned in Oracle Cloud.
Training Dates
Additional training dates are now available please email aadil.shah1@nhs.net to book
Training dates available at City Supplies Meeting Room.
Monday 16 April: 8am- 4pm
Tuesday 17 April: 8am- 4pm
Friday 20 April: 8am- 4pm
Help is always available so if you continue to experience issues please contact Swbh.neworaclequeries@nhs.net or Amandeep Sandhu on ext. 5006.
Thank you for your patience and perseverance.
Dress rehearsal to assess our readiness for Unity
We will be running a dress rehearsal of Unity today (Monday 16 April). The rehearsal will be a first run through of all activities that will take place during the go live of our new electronic patient record to identify any issues ahead of go live.
[su_youtube_advanced url="https://youtu.be/mft3qUZbBRk" showinfo="no" rel="no" https="yes" wmode="transparent" playsinline="yes"]Technical teams have been carrying out the full breadth of their activities this week (apart from switching any systems off). For operational teams next week is an opportunity to verify that Unity works in a business context for each role. This means a small number of users including nurses/midwives, healthcare assistants and ward clerks will work on Unity while their colleagues will be carrying out their usual process’s on our current systems.
The Unity dress rehearsal will ensure that each role will be able to provide patient care in their respective roles.
The users that have been identified and allocated have already been informed and briefings provided throughout this week. Below are the dates which each location will be rehearsing.
- 16 April – Sandwell ED, Sandwell Inpatient Wards
- 17 April – City Hospital ED, City Hospital inpatient wards, Community inpatient areas
- 18 April – Outpatient Areas
For more information please email swbh.trustindigital@nhs.net
Just a reminder: IBS and bowel cancer awareness month
April is IBS awareness and bowel cancer awareness month.
With this in mind, here ten tips to help with your digestive health:
- Chew your food well
- Relax when you eat
- Reduce sugar intake
- Try to avoid additives
- Ensure you’re consuming your recommended fibre intake (30g for adults)
- Try to add probiotics to your diet
- Leave at least 2 hours before your evening meal and bed time
- Try to consume plenty of prebiotic foods
- Drink 2 litres of water a day
- Keep a food diary so you can track food sensitivity
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