Monthly archives: May 2019

29 days left to nominate – Come along to our Star Awards 2019 nomination stalls

There are only 29 days left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards.

Do you want to find out more about this year’s award categories or are you unsure how to write and submit your nomination?

Why not pop along to one of our Star Awards clinics!

We’re hosting a Star Awards stand today at City Hospital along the main spine by arches cafe from 12 – 2pm offering some delicious treats while you nominate any of your colleagues.

For more information, please visit our dedicated Star Awards 2019 page on Connect.If you have any questions regarding the Star Awards, please contact the communications team on 0121 507 5303 or email swbh.comms@nhs.net.

Fit testing clinic

Are you aware of what FFP3 mask to wear in a clinical area? Have you been fit tested?

Infection prevention and control are running additional date for colleagues who have not been fit tested:

• 2 July, 9am-3.30pm – infection control office, BTC link corridor – City

To arrange a 20 minute slot and for more information, please contact infection control on ext. 5900.

Unity Play System – planned maintenance this week

Please be aware that the Unity Play System is out of action this week for planned maintenance.

Some colleagues have been unable to log in using their own network username and password. Although generic, role-based logins were provided as a temporary solution, the issue is being addressed to ensure that everyone can make the most of practising on the Play System, which should be available again from Monday 3 June.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

NHS supply chain code changes: 3 June

We have been advised by NHS supply chain that there are number of order code changes effective from Monday 3 June which are detailed below:

All materially managed wards and departments will automatically start receiving the coded items above.

For more information please contact the procurement team on ext. 4938.

Unity 28-Day Challenge comes to an end – time to complete your checklist

Thank you to everyone who took part in the 28-Day Challenge, which came to an end on Sunday. Hopefully you found it an enjoyable experience and were able to increase your knowledge of Unity through completing a series of bite-sized tasks.

It was good to see so many people getting involved, supporting each other and working together as a team. Plenty of you regularly practised on the Play System and, as a result, should now be more familiar with how Unity works and will fit into your clinical role.

Having finished the 28-Day Challenge it’s important for everyone to complete the relevant ‘Unity – It’s all about U’ checklist, which outlines the core requirements for using the system in your role. You can do this through Connect.

Please answer the questions honestly. Nobody’s trying to catch you out and there’s nothing wrong with not knowing how to do something. Filling in the checklist will simply show your manager where you are with Unity and help them to identify any support you might need to ensure you’re up to speed with the system.

Although the 28-Day Challenge is over, there’s nothing to stop you from repeating the challenges over the coming weeks and months. As always, the more work you put in the easier you will find it once Unity goes live. The Play System is a good place to start but please be aware that it’s out of action this week for planned maintenance. It should be available again from Monday 3 June.

For more information about the 28-Day Challenge, or the ‘Unity – it’s all about U’ checklists, contact the learning and development team on swbh.landd@nhs.net.

Coaching opportunity for colleagues

The Trust is in the process of supporting some cohorts of colleagues to undertake a coaching qualification. As part of their programme they need to coach colleagues on a topic of their choice. One of the cohorts particularly needs to coach people at Band 7 and above.

If anyone is interested in receiving coaching and supporting our trainee coaches at the same time, please contact hayley.johnstone@nhs.net by 31 May.

For more information please visit https://connect2.swbh.nhs.uk/learning-development/coaching-mentoring/

Gynaecology and gynae-oncology fax switch off: 1 June

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock has ordered a complete phase out of faxing in the NHS by April 2020.

NHS organisations will be required to use modern communication methods, such as secure email, to improve patient safety and cyber security. Information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/health-and-social-care-secretary-bans-fax-machines-in-nhs.

With this in mind, gynaecology and gynae-oncology will be switching off their fax machines on 1 June. Fax machines currently situated in these departments will be removed and their contact telephone numbers replaced with generic email addresses.

The details are as follows::

• Fax 0121-507-5430  (Gynae-Oncology Secretaries Office, Pan Birmingham Gynae Building, City Hospital). Instead, please email swbh.gm-gynae-oncology@nhs.net for any Gynae-Oncology enquiries.
• Fax 0121-507- 5680  (General Gynaecology Secretaries Office, Pan Birmingham Gynae Building, City Hospital). Instead, please email swbh.gm-gynaecology@nhs.net for any Gynaecology enquiries.

Note: These new email addresses will be monitored and all communications actioned as necessary on a continual basis.

TeamTalk briefing – June 2019

This month’s TeamTalk, took place on Wednesday 22 May. Attendees were given an update from the Clinical Leadership Executive and were also briefed on national and regional updates.

The learning from excellence topic this month was around hoist assessments and prescriptions.

If you were not able to make one of the sessions you can download a copy of the briefing presentation and the latest TeamTalk video from our Chief Executive, Toby Lewis.

TeamTalk Staff Briefing – June 2019

Spread the cost while saving up to 42 per cent on a new bike and accessories

Get summer ready by spreading the cost while saving up to 42 per cent on a new bike and accessories!

Simply go to www.cycle2work.info and register using your promo code “SANDWELLC2W”

Be sure to check out some of the fantastic Summer Ready Bundles on offer.

Note: This offer ends on 9 June.

To find out more about employee benefits at SWBH please contact amir.ali1@nhs.net.

Payslip distribution

Paper payslips will be distributed later than planned this month due to Heartbeat delivery being delayed. They will be distributed from tomorrow (Wednesday 29 May). Please note that you can review your monthly pay online through ESR by logging on at https://my.esr.nhs.uk/.

To do this:

1. Please login to ESR using your ESR username and password.
2. Navigate to the ‘My Pay and Reward’ section using the menu on the left
3. Pick the year and month you would like your payslip for and then click ‘View payslip’