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Monthly archives: April 2022

Latest technology benefits – order by 8 May

 

Here’s your chance to take home the latest technology and spread the cost, with affordable monthly payments from your salary.

Key features from the benefit include:

  • Spread the cost over 36 months for tech and 24 months for smartphones
  • National Insurance savings of up to 12 per cent (based on a basic rate taxpayer)
  • Extended warranty/insurance included with most main packages
  • No credit checks, upfront costs or deposits
  • You own the equipment ordered from day one
  • Nothing further to pay at the end of the agreement
  • Home delivery included.

Note: The order window will be open until 8 May.

View the full range of products at www.swbhbenefits.co.uk

Population Health Fellowship opportunity

 

This fellowship is an opportunity for healthcare professionals interested in population health and passionate about health inequalities. The fellowship targets early to mid-career healthcare professionals providing NHS services (AfC band 6 and above, or equivalent; dentists-in-training; doctors-in-training post-FY2 and their SAS equivalent). The aim of the fellowship is to develop a network of professionals from a non-population health background with population health skills to benefit place-based healthcare systems across England.

It is a one-year part-time programme at two days a week alongside your substantive post. Population Health Fellows will work on a population health related project and will be supported by a blended virtual learning programme.  Supervision for the project will be provided.

Applications are invited for the position of a Fellow in Population Health, funded by Health Education England, and based in Herefordshire and Worcestershire Training Hub to commence the programme on Tuesday 6 September 2022 requiring attendance at a Welcome event (The National Learning Programme will commence on Tuesday 4 October 2022).

Reimbursement of your salary element of the participation in the fellowship will be provided to your substantive employer and you must discuss this opportunity with your line manager and educational supervisor (if applicable) of your intentions to apply.

To apply for the fellowship, you are required to complete the Population Health Fellowship form – Application Form for Population Health Fellowship.

The closing date for all applications is Sunday 10 April with those successful being interviewed on Thursday 21 April.

The Fellow will be hosted by Herefordshire & Worcestershire Training Hub to develop a specific intervention aimed at tackling obesity across the ICS. The Training Hub together with local PCNs and their teams would support the Fellow to develop a robust project plan, innovative interventions and a strong evaluation.

For more detailed information please refer to Rough Guide for Cohort 3 or email fiona.ward@taurushealthcare.co.uk

Star Awards 2022: Rising Star of the Year

 

Do you know an individual who has held some leadership or management responsibility for at least a year and who has demonstrated outstanding ability, talent, communications skills and leadership, showing great promise for the future?

Nominate them for the Rising Star of the Year in this year’s upcoming Star Awards!

Complete the online nomination form by clicking here.

Nominations close on Friday 3 June.

If you have any questions, please contact the communications team on 0121 507 5303 or email swbh.comms@nhs.net.

Palliative care training for HCAs

 

Palliative care training aimed at HCAs will run from 9am – 4pm in the Postgraduate dining room, City Hospital on the below dates. The day will cover recognising the dying patient as well as comfort care.

  • Thursday 14 April
  • Thursday 21 July

To book your place please email paulroberts6@nhs.net.

For more information please call 0121 507 3611.

Need to use a Dexa scanner?

 

New Cross Hospital have kindly agreed that Trust colleagues can use their Dexa scanner temporarily while we await the delivery of our new machine.

Note: This is only an interim service until we get out new machine but is available for your patients who are happy to travel to New Cross Hospital.

For more information please email Ciara.browne@nhs.net.

Result report printing at City

 

The pathology department are currently experiencing issues with result report printing at City site due to hardware problems. This means there may be some reports that have not been printed and could result a in delay in these being produced.

Note: Electronic reports are available for all requests as soon as results are generated.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

BTC Costa reopening: 6 April

 

As you may be aware, the BTC Costa Coffee has been closed since Tuesday 29 March due to the unit being refurbished. The nearest retail outlet is Arches which is open 8am – 9pm, Monday – Sunday.

The outlet will be reopening at 12pm on Wednesday 6 April offering half prices on products (subject to availability) until 3pm. On Thursday 7 April and Friday 8 April, the outlet will also be offering a free pastry with every Costa purchased (subject to availability).

We apologise for any inconvenience this closure has caused.

Making the most out of ESR: ESR Manager Self Service

 

Annual leave carry forward: ESR will be co coordinating the annual leave carry forward for all employees and will update the employee record. Once updated in ESR the hours will transfer automatically to E-Rostering. In May, managers will receive an email asking them to provide the information required. Managers are asked not to contact the ESR Helpdesk prior to this date with information for individual employees as the team will need to ensure they have the correct details and the relevant approval. Any leave being paid to the employee does not need to be included.

Annual leave and recording bank holidays: All colleagues need to record bank holidays taken as leave in ESR. The entitlement shown in ESR / E-Rostering includes the allowance for 8 days bank holidays proportionate to contracted hours. Guidance can be found by clicking here. Note: ESR has been updated to provide an allowance of 9 days bank holiday for the period 2022/23.

Flexible working requests: Colleagues can now make flexible working requests using Self Service; these requests are then forwarded to the named manager. Managers will need to log into ESR to acknowledge the request and process the application. Guidance is available by clicking here.

Recording menopause sickness: Nearly 60 per cent of those between the age of 45 – 55 who are experiencing menopause symptoms say it negatively impacts them at work. Menopause sickness can now be recorded in ESR as a related reason. Please see the absence guidance by clicking here. For more information on how menopause can affect people at work and practical guidance for employers on how to improve workplace environments please click here.

Recording COVID-19 Absence in ESR: Please see Manager Self Service COVID absence guidance

  • Do not record an absence if the employee is working from home
  • Please ensure that if the employee is absent due to COVID that this is entered in the related reason field in ESR

Declarations of Interest: As NHS colleagues, we are obliged to declare any interests – including gifts, hospitality or sponsorship received from third parties – to ensure transparency on how public funds and assets are being used and accessed. Colleagues can follow the simple process  to record via Employee Self Service, outlined in this presentation.

For more information please email swbh.esrhelpdesk@nhs.net.

Unity maintenance, 14 April from 7.30pm – Unity Single Document Capture affected

 

Please be aware essential maintenance will be taking place on Thursday 14 April from 7.30pm – 9.30pm affecting Single Document Capture within Unity.

Unity will remain operational throughout this maintenance however Single Document Capture (SDC) the function to scan documents directly into Unity and Archived reports will be unavailable.

Should you have any queries please contact the 24 hour IT helpdesk on ext. 4050 or 0121 507 4050 for home workers.

NHS pensions webinars

 

Pen-gage will be hosting 90 minute pension webinars that will provide colleagues with an overview of the NHS pension scheme along with details of forthcoming changes to the NHS pension scheme.

The webinar will cover:

  • An overview of the NHS pension scheme
  • How benefits are calculated
  • 1 April 2022 changes
  • Retirement options
  • Other considerations

Below are the dates which the webinars will be hosted – click here to book on one of the sessions.

  • Wednesday 6 April, 5pm
  • Thursday 7 April, 8am

For more information please email laura@pengage.co.uk or call 07543 983359.

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