Monthly archives: October 2024
Staff Health and Wellbeing session for all – Managing everyday anxiety
Join the upcoming session on staff health and wellbeing and managing everyday anxiety, where we will be joined by experts from the app Headspace. All staff who are interested or have a role in staff health and wellbeing are welcome to join this session to learn how to calm yourself and shift your relationship with anxiousness. Headspace will share practical tools, tips, and techniques to help you reframe everyday anxiety.
The session will be taking place on Tuesday 19 November – 11am – 12pm via MS Teams. You can register here.
City colleagues – Please book your induction site tours
Following our first move to Midland Met, we’re reminding all City colleagues moving on 6/10 November to book their induction site tours.
It is crucial to prioritise your induction site tour, so you can move safely into Midland Met.
What to expect:
- A 60-minute journey through Midland Met (inc. car parks, Winter Garden facilities, lift navigation, a ward and our emergency department front door).
- Guided Induction tours led by our knowledgeable staff members.
- Insights into the advanced technology and design features at Midland Met.
- Opportunities to ask questions and engage with your tour guide.
- Tour groups of up to 12.
- Useful plans and navigation tips provided to help you get to grips with Midland Met.
Click here to book your induction site tour and find out more about what to expect here.
For more information, please email swbh.mmuhinduction@nhs.net
Navigating Midland Met
To help you easily find your way around our new hospital, we’ve got Midland Met wayfinding maps ready.
Whether you’re locating a ward or finding a department, these maps will guide you through every corner.
Please remember when using these wayfinding maps that they show staff routes around the hospital. These routes should not be followed by patients or visitors.
We’ve specifically designed our new hospital with separate routes for patients, colleagues and goods. While colleagues can use any of the lifts and stairwells, patients or visitors will not be able to access areas meant for colleagues or goods.
You’ll know you’re in a staff only area if you see grey doors and walls. Please make sure no patients or visitors follow you through to these areas as they won’t be able to move around without a pass.
Replacement of ID cards
Due to unforeseen circumstances no new ID cards will be issued from the BTC between Friday 25 October – 31 October. Passes will be available from BTC from Friday 1 November.
New passes can still be obtained from the welcome desk on level 5 at Midland Met.
Last few days to claim four weeks free bus pass travel with further discount
Do you want four weeks free bus travel and eight weeks at 25 per cent discount?
The Trust is committed to working in more environmentally friendly ways and has in place a Trust Board approved Green Strategic Plan. We are keen to support staff with getting to and from work using active and sustainable modes of travel, particularly with the opening of MMUH.
As part of the West Midlands Bus Scheme, we are extending our offer for eligible staff for four weeks free bus travel and then 8 weeks travel at 25 per cent discount. To be eligible, you must be a non-frequent bus user (1-2 times a week or less). Please ensure you select that you are a non-frequent bus user when completing the form otherwise you won’t be eligible. This is a programme to encourage modal-shift and is intended to support sustainable travel habits. Those eligible will be supported with free bus travel via Swift technology.
Please see the swift card guide here.
The form will close on Monday 28 October, 8pm. Applications will be processed at the end of each week and issued to eligible staff.
To apply, please complete this questionnaire using this form or use the QR code below.
Codes cannot be requested via email and will be sent directly from Transport for West Midlands. The form must be completed to assess eligibility.
What you need to know about isolation rooms
At Midland Met, we have isolation rooms throughout the hospital. These isolations rooms are used for the care of highly infectious and/or immuno-supressed patients.
It is crucial that these rooms are used correctly so that patient safety is not compromised.
Below are some pointers to ensure the isolation rooms are used correctly:
- To ensure the ventilation system correctly operates all doors into and within the suite must be fully closed.
- Failure to fully close the doors will cause the system to go into alarm.
- In the event of the red light above the door, and the alarm activating, please check all doors are fully closed. If this doesn’t resolve the issue please contact Estates on ext 4444. You will need to quote the door number which is located on the door as shown with the image that begins with 07.
Do you want to care share and priority park?
We have partnered with KINTO Join and the Integrated Care System (ICS) so that colleagues can buddy up and car share to get to/from work. The app also allows for cycling and walking in groups and is free to use. Car sharing, walking and cycling via the app allows colleagues to share journeys to.
There will be car sharing priority bays at MMUH. To use these, you must register with Kinto.
If you would like to know more and join a quick demo, please register for one of the 30-minute demo sessions by clicking the links below
To download the app, use the QR code or click here.
Replacement ID cards
Due to unforeseen circumstances – no new ID cards will be issued from the BTC between 24 October – 30 October 2024.
However, new passes can still be obtained from the Welcome desk on Level 5 at MMUH.
E-virtual clinic referral form for AMU/SDEC should be accessed through Unity
As you may be aware, up until Monday 21 October, the E-virtual clinic referral form for AMU/SDEC was available on Connect. This form has now been disabled.
Should any colleagues need to do an E-virtual clinic referral for AMU/SDEC, they should now do this through Unity.
Are you part of the City move? We want to hear your stories
As we prepare to close the emergency department and many of the inpatient wards at City, as well as our maternity and neonatal services, we want to reflect on the special memories this hospitals holds for so many of us.
Whether you’ve been part of our team for years or are a recent starter, your experiences are part of our history. Maybe you’ve met lifelong friends or even your partner at work, have family members who call these hospitals home, or you want to share how you’ve cared for patients at SWB.
We’ve created some A2 goodbye boards with spaces to gather your messages and memories. These are available to be collected by those moving to Midland Met at the Midland Met Corner opposite Boaters restaurant at City.
Before we officially say farewell, we would love to hear all your stories – big or small – so we can capture your memories in a special look back about our time at City. Please take the time to be part of our special goodbye and be sure to share your messages on your goodbye boards and on Our SWB Family Facebook group.
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