IDEAL Integrated Directorate of Education and Learning Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust October 2009 Issue 15 For all the latest education and learning news, events and courses in SUHT Leadership Launch SUHT s Leadership Strategy was launched on September 22nd in Lecture Room A, Education Centre. Around fifty of our senior colleagues drawn from all Divisions and all disciplines attended and we were delighted to see Merril Bate, Deputy Head of Leadership Development at NHS South Central, our Chairman John Trewby, Judy Gillow, Director of Nursing who had all made time to attend. Replete with coffee and delicious cookies (in lieu of lunch), they listened to CEO Mark Hackett talk about the intrinsically personal qualities of leadership and the crucial importance of effective leadership for a complex organisation such as SUHT. Jo Mountfield, Director of Education, then outlined the background to the launch, highlighting the strategy s contents, particularly the Leadership Map and its usefulness for PDPs when undertaking appraisals and the What s New? section where all the latest Leadership & Management news and opportunities are posted. Finally Caroline Nesbitt, Leadership Development, then talked in more detail about the current programmes, Coaching for Excellence and 360 O feedback as well as developments in the pipeline. For further information, go to: www.suht.nhs. uk/education/educationhome.aspx Click on Leadership Map to also access What s New & Leadership Strategy. Radio Chat Show There I was a couple of weeks ago, happily doing my day job when I got a call from the Communications Team who needed help. Would I promote the Hospital Open Day, in particular the stand J for jobs and careers on the radio? Not one to shy away from a challenge of course I said yes. On the day four of us arrived at Unity 101 in Southampton where microphones and chairs were strategically placed, sound tests carried out and a run through on how it all works received. It was at this point they mentioned of course as this is a live show expect emails, texts or telephone calls which was a bit daunting. However, at 3pm we went live, with a lead representative fielding questions and aiding the discussion we gave out as much information as possible, answered a number of emails and calls and in no time at all the hour had come to a close. Though a huge sigh of relief was given by all, it was an enjoyable experience and one I would happily repeat. Carol Clark, Career Support Coordinator IDEAL - October 2009 31
Putting Evidence into Practice 1st Regional Conference a success Over 160 NHS staff members and academics from the South Central Region took part in the 1st Regional Conference on Putting Evidence into Practice (PEP) on the 24th of September 2009. Organised by the School of Health Sciences and Social Work at the University of Portsmouth and funded by NHS Education South Central, the one day conference covered a variety of topics on evidence-based practice from its history, to current use of clinical guidelines, to practical sessions on searching NHS Evidence, as well as interactive exercises on understanding research and undertaking change management. The participants, from a wide range of backgrounds as Allied Healthcare Professionals and Healthcare Scientists, found the day truly invigorating due to the opportunities to meet and network with so many other like-minded colleagues and also due to the varied programme. One participant commented that it is inspiring to see the interest as well as sharing and learning together and discovering new resources and developments. While others mentioned that the day was very enjoyable and informative thought provoking! and an excellent day (brain hurts now) but learned a lot. The venue of The Rose Bowl, Southampton helped to build an open atmosphere where participants could mingle and enjoy views of the sunny cricket pitch. For those who were unable to attend the conference, the main presentation handouts are available on the PEP website at www.ebp4nhs.org.uk under conference in the menu. The PEP course will continue to run this year and is currently free to all NHS staff including Nurses, Medical Practitioners, Allied Healthcare Professionals and Healthcare Scientists. The course calendar with venues across the South Central patch and varied dates can be found on the PEP website at www.ebp4nhs.org.uk. Book early to secure your place! 2009 Annual Evidence Update on osteoarthritis Dr Lisa Roberts, Arthritis Research Campaign Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy within the Trust, has recently completed an Annual Evidence Update on Osteoarthritis. Lisa has produced a commentary on behalf of NHS Evidence who compiled a bibliography updating the systematic reviews relating to exercise and physical therapies in osteoarthritis during the last year; however it is recognised that four reviews from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination summarise papers published in 2007 and January 2008. The Annual Evidence Updates are an excellent way for busy clinicians to access a précis of current thinking and keep up to date on developments in their field. They can be found at the NHS Evidence website featured in the previous edition of IDEAL Times: http:// www.evidence.nhs.uk/ and the complete osteoarthritis update can be found at: www.library.nhs.uk/musculoskeletal/viewresource. aspx?resid=324808&tabid=289&catid=1013 For further details please contact Lisa Roberts via email: L.C.Roberts@soton.ac.uk Open University Pre-Registrations Nurses There have been five new students recruited onto the programme which started September 09, making a total of 21 nurses undertaking the programme. The first cohorts of students submit their final portfolio in January 2010, and should be registered nurses by mid April. Good Luck to all of them. There is an open afternoon for anyone interested in the OU pre registration-nursing programme on: Wednesday 25 November, 1400-1600 Tutorial Room 2, Education Centre For further information please contact Clare Aspden on ext 8673 or clare.aspden@suht.swest.nhs.uk INDIVIDUAL LEARNING ACCOUNTS NEW CRITERIA From August 1st 2009, following altered guidelines from NHS Education South Central, you can apply for an Individual Learning Account (ILA) of up to 300(max) per annum to support your development specifically in your current job or future healthcare career if: You are a SUHT employee (Bands 1 4), including Volunteers You do not have a professional/registerable work-related qualification An ILA can be used to help you pay fees for courses (at SUHT or, for example, a local or distance-learning college), books or equipment. If you would like to discuss learning accounts or how you can progress please contact: careersupport@suht.swest.nhs.uk or call ext 4919 to make an appointment. 2 IDEAL - October 2009
Putting Evidence into Practice (PEP) Courses Evidence Based Practice ensures that health care is based on valid, reliable and relevant evidence determined by robust research and evaluation. It takes into account patients circumstances, beliefs and values as well as the experience of the clinician in order to provide the best possible care. The Putting Evidence into Practice (PEP) programme is a free CPD introductory evidencebased practice course for all healthcare professionals delivered across the SHA region. It is suitable for Nurses, Medical Practitioners, Healthcare Scientists and Allied Healthcare Professionals. The course aims to provide postqualification Healthcare Professionals with the ability to engage in EBP and implement validated evidence based developments into their practice. The programme consists of five face-to-face contact days, which take place once a week over five weeks. Although there will be no formal Preceptorship IDEAL - October 2009 Q: Have you ever questioned whether what you do at work is supported by the best available evidence? Q: Pressed for time? Far too much information out there and you don t always know where to start? A: Perhaps learning more about Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is half of the battle to improving patient care 3 assessments, learners are expected to spend approximately three five additional hours studying, accessing the online component of the course, as well as completing a reflective journal for each contact day. The next courses will take place on the following dates and locations: Isle of Wight (St Mary s Hospital, Newport) on Mondays 26th October, 2nd, 16th, 23rd November and 7th December 2009. Portsmouth (University of Portsmouth) Thursday 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, November and Wednesday 2nd December 2009. Southampton (Southampton General Hospital) Tuesday 5th January, Monday 11th, 18th, 25th January and Tuesday 2nd February 2010. Winchester (Royal Hampshire County Hospital) Thursday 25th February, 4th March and Tuesday 9th, 16th, and 23rd March 2010. For further information please visit: http://www. ebp4nhs.org.uk or contact the PEP Administrator at 01983 534178. SUHT has recently been awarded funding from NESC for trustwide, multiprofessional preceptorship. Work is ongoing to ensure these hub and spoke preceptorship programmes meet minimum standards set out in the bid, some of which include: Each new qualifier assigned a preceptor Preceptorship period to be a minimum of 6 months Each new qualifier to receive intensive support in week 1 (linked to induction period to include guide to preceptorship) Each new qualifier to be supported for 1½ days per month in either formal taught/directed study or 1:1 supervision in practice Flying Start programme to be piloted in line with the national programme on a separate cohort of New Qualifiers in the Unscheduled Care Division. These minimum standards are to support preceptees to become confident, competent practitioners and allow them to pass successfully through KSF gateways. The newly developed skills passport will be available on the IDEAL website at the begining of November: this mulitprofessional tool guides newly qualified registrants through their first 12 months education, development and is linked to the preceptorship programmes.
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COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN HOUSE EDUCATION 24 th Biannual Conference The End of the Pathway Wednesday 18 th November 2009 Winchester Guildhall 09.00 16.30 This conference will focus on the last two steps of the DoH End of Life Care Pathway including: The Pathway in NHS South Central Faith and Culture Last Offices The Coroner The Funeral Director The Carer Experience Staff Support This conference is for all health and social care professionals caring for people with advanced disease Cost 90 per person For further details and application forms please contact: Nicky Gibbons, Education Secretary E-mail: nag1@soton.ac.uk Telephone 023 8047 5332 Places allocated on a first come first served basis Quality Approval and CPD points applied for IDEAL - October 2009 5
Dyslexia Awareness Training The British Dyslexia Association is running three one day courses here at SUHT. Two of the courses (October 2009 and February 2010) are from an employer perspective and are aimed at managers, supervisors and HR staff. There is also a course which is aimed from an educational perspective and would be suitable for education leads, trainers and anyone who supervises or trains staff. This will be held in November 2009. For more information or to book a place, please go to the Course Bookings section of the IDEAL Website. Managing People Performance Training Course This course focuses on the interpersonal skills required for effective staff discussions to manage people and their performance. The interpersonal skills covered are questioning, listening and giving feedback. This could include many situations such as Recruitment and Selection, Appraisals and Performance Management. This half day course has been created from the previous Interviewing Skills half day course and is aimed at any person involved in managing staff including discussions of any kind or being required to provide feedback to staff in a developmental situation. For details and bookings please see: http://www.suht.nhs.uk/education/coursebookings/ CourseCatalogue/LeadershipAndManagementTraining/ManagingPeoplePerformance.aspx Common Learning The Common Learning component of the Universities of Portsmouth and Southampton undergraduate programmes continues to go from strength to strength with regard to the quantity and diversity of projects undertaken by groups across the organisation. Interprofessional Learning Unit 2, which has a focus on audit, will be running from 1-12 March. If you have an audit project which you think could be completed by undergraduates over the course of the allotted two weeks and which you are able to facilitate the required interprofessional nature of the audit then please contact Alison Trenerry alison.trenerry@suht.swest. nhs.uk or Alison Day alison.day@suht.swest.nhs.uk Student Nurse Award for Outstanding Practice NESC Education magazine The NESC Education magazine shows the latest updates from South Central and across the country. It is now online where you can register for future online and/or printed copies. NESC Education is for educators, mentors and trainers who support the learning and development of healthcare staff and students across NHS South Central. The aims of the magazine is to share best practice and learn from others, debate workforce issues to accelerate raising the standards of education and training. The magazine is very much focused on what is happening in trusts, PCTS, GP and Dental Practices across our region. While it is targeted at educators, mentors and trainers it will be of interest to anybody looking to education and training to solve a workforce solution. For more information or to register, please visit: http://www.nesc.nhs.uk/newsletters_magazine/ nesc_magazine.aspx The School of Health Sciences hosted the Student Nurse Badge Ceremony on 22 September where Rosemary Chable, Associate Director of Nursing, presented the award for outstanding practice to Susie Zaborszky. Susie was nominated for the award by C4 on Cancer Care for the development of an electronic referral template for district nurse referrals. The ward said that this template is a very useful tool that will bring great benefit to the ward nursing team and that they wanted to recognise the contribution that she (Susie) has made to the ward that will outlast her time with us. Congratulations Susie. 6 IDEAL - October 2009
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Hospital Heroes Award funds mugs for the Anaesthetic Department The Anaesthetic Department were proud to be awarded the Hospital Heroes Infection Prevention Award earlier this year. After some discussion about how to spend our prize money, we decided to design our own department coffee mugs. One of the anaesthetic trainees, Dr Beena Varghese, submitted eight different designs to the department for approval and after a vote we chose a blue one with our own Shackleton emblem and space for a name underneath. We put in a bulk order from a local business and now every member of the anaesthetic department has their own Shackleton coffee mug with their name on it. It has created a surprising amount of good feeling, and so the Consultant Staff have decided to continue this by funding a department mug for everyone joining our department. New trainees have been very pleasantly surprised to be presented with their mug on arrival and frequently comment, rather embarrassingly, that it is the first time they have ever been welcomed and given any type of small gift when joining a department! Many thanks to Jo Mountfield and Anita Esser who run this scheme, and who gave us the incentive to do this. Caroline Marshall, Consultant Anaesthetist. If you would like to tell everyone how your department has spent their prize money, please contact Nisha Ross for further details. Newly Qualified Nurses This year has seen recruitment of 120+ newly qualified nurses. Attending the annual bespoke NQN induction day on 2 October, they were all welcomed to the Trust and keen to take up their first posts. They all start their local induction early October and preceptorship programme VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Have you utilised the career support service in the past year? If yes, we need your help! The career support team is currently working towards the matrix standard; this is a nationally recognised standard for Information, Advice and Guidance services. We will be visited by an independent assessor at the end of November who would like 15minutes of your time in strict confidence to gain feedback on your experience(s). If you are interested, please contact: careersupport@suht.swest.nhs.uk or call Carol Clark on ext 4955 to discuss. Contact Details for this Newsletter Feedback on this newsletter is always welcome as are contributions to future issues. Please email carol.pulman@suht.swest.nhs.uk This newsletter can also be found on the IDEAL website: www.suht.nhs.uk/ideal Don t forget to have a browse at the ever expanding IDEAL website! Editor: nisha.ross@suht.swest.nhs.uk Designed by: Learning Media, www.suht.soton.ac.uk/lmedia 82 IDEAL - October 2009