Hellie Patterson-Brown (Assoc CIPD)

Our publication, Insights: Experiences of ethnic minority and IMG practitioners (➡️ bit.ly/4b5DVYC) is just part of our recently released Lived Experience research, which also features case studies, an action plan and a list of our health care partner’s EDI initiatives. #EQW2024 #EqualityDiversityandHumanRightsWeek

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The FdSc Health & Social Care Practitioner programme is perfect for committed and experienced practitioners who want to add further value to their professional skills. 🔍 If you're looking to advance your career, read more about the course here: bit.ly/3RIuiXD

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For care settings, prioritising wellbeing is often what separates average providers from good and outstanding providers! Discover what needs to be considered when looking at CQC compliance for the wellbeing of people living and working in care in our latest blog: https://bit.ly/3Vk6Xid #carehomewellbeing #cqccompliance

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Supporting the educator workforce is a key priority for the NHS. But to get the right support in place for the future, we need to hear what’s important from Clinical Educators. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be bringing some of these important issues to light and sharing first-hand experiences from our colleagues. So, if you're a Clinical Educator – please take five minutes to tell us your views on how support can be improved - https://lnkd.in/e7sw9scc #ClinicalEducators

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As a support worker it is important to build skills that are essential in supporting individuals in various situations. Here at Jane’s Care, we encourage our support workers to: Understand Individual Needs: Take the time to understand the specific needs and preferences of the individuals we support. Learn from Experience: Reflect on past experiences and identify instances where we successfully resolved issues or challenges. Seek Guidance and Training: Take advantage of training opportunities related to problem-solving, communication skills, and conflict resolution. Stay Calm Under Pressure: Practice remaining calm and composed during stressful situations. This helps us think more clearly and make better decisions under pressure. #NDIS #Janescare #Teamspirit #Guidance #Support #Skills 

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📢 Working within an integrated care system or the NHS with line management responsibilities or an interest in workforce? 🌟 Keen to be part of the development of a Workforce Evaluation Toolkit to empower individuals, teams, and organisations to realise potential? Health Innovation Wessex has been commissioned by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex to develop a Workforce Evaluation Toolkit as a resource to understand and give guidance on workforce changes, strategies, and behaviours. As we continue to develop the toolkit, we’ve already collected valuable feedback from individuals regarding the key concepts and subtopics. 🗣 Now, we seek your support and insights to further refine these concepts by ranking them based on their priority and importance. This will help us shape and design the toolkit. 👉 Participate in our short survey and let us know what you think (5 minutes max!). The survey closes on 31 May: https://lnkd.in/eEDXvtiA #NHS #Workforce #Toolkit

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MEET THE SPEAKER: Joanne Bass (Gold Sponsor - OET representative) FOCUS: • Innovation and best practice in English for Healthcare assessment and test preparation including OET • Practical ideas for participants to use • Explore trends and developments that are current and applicable RATIONALE: • Exploring how teachers can help learners utilise the skills they have developed in their OET exam preparation. • Explaining how skills learnt in OET lessons link back to workplace relevance. • Discussing the most recent research from Cambridge University Press & Assessment into the impact of OET. AIMS: • To provide teachers with classroom ideas for reflective lesson stages for each of the OET sub-tests. • To share findings from the recent impact research on OET to help teachers put this into practice. Find the full abstract here: https://lnkd.in/emTrVquQ See the programme: https://lnkd.in/e2JEPrgj Read more about the sponsors: https://lnkd.in/etNHcyTU #conference #medicalenglish #teachingenglish #healthcare #communication #language

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Our latest guidance from the NHS Staff Council's Health, Safety and Wellbeing Group outlines the importance of partnership working at a local level on issues relating to staff health, safety and wellbeing. It provides information on: ☑️ Why it's better to work in partnership on this area ☑️ Functions of a health and safety rep ☑️ Effective health and safety committees ☑️ Legal requirements on health and safety ☑️ Formal workplace inspections And much more...

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It’s our ambition to be the exemplar nursing union and professional body embedding consideration, reflection and impactful action on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into all decisions and activity. Our priorities to achieve this are set out in our new five-year strategy. They include:  • leaders taking accountability for EDI • ensuring advocacy for all member voices • facilitating support and collaboration across all communities • encouraging diverse representation in governance • creating inclusive workplaces for all members.   Find out more: https://bit.ly/4bZtMx4

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The Importance of Continuity of Care, and How KPI Can Help. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/KPIcontcare #continuityofcare #carehomesuk

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NHS Providers have published a new report on co-production and engagement with communities as a solution for reducing health inequalities. The report provides practical advice for how senior leaders can champion engagement activities across their trust and tips for designing inclusive engagement that involves those more likely to experience health inequalities. https://lnkd.in/eZYdAhR3

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A survey by the Institute of Health and Social Care Management has revealed that 90% of social care workers don’t believe that they receive the recognition that they deserve. 90%! How can we expect the social care system to work well if this is how care workers are feeling? Ensuring that staff feel both recognised and appreciated for the work they do has a positive effect on the way they feel which directly impacts their mental health and well-being. One way to ensure that employees feel recognised is using TAP, the social thanking platform: https://lnkd.in/dUudcQ93

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🚨 *NEW* Our June case study is now available to read! Find out how Croydon Health Services NHS Trust have used the benchmarking data for service improvement in adult learning disability service provision. Members can access the case study via our members' area now 👇 https://lnkd.in/d9sqBcXz #CaseStudy #LearningDisabilities #NHSBN #Data #Benchmarking

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Our first Nursing in Practice roundtable report, explores ongoing challenges around pay, terms and conditions and the barriers to recruitment and retention within the sector. https://lnkd.in/ev4ru8zV

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On behalf of our members - health leaders in England – we are calling on the next government to protect local NHS organisations from having to further cut staffing levels to make ends meet at a time when the needs of their patients are so high. Take a look at our latest report, based on a survey of our members 🔗 https://bit.ly/3VqqaPC Responding to our survey, NHS leaders they told us they face “drastic measures” to make ends meet as NHS responds to its tightest financial settlement in years. Some key findings: ➡ 67% of respondents from NHS trusts and ICBs plan to reduce clinical staff to meet their cost saving targets. 90% plan to reduce non-clinical staff. ➡ 74% of primary care leaders responding said they will have to reduce clinical staff, and 79% plan to cut non-clinical staff. This is despite data showing over 110,000 vacancies across the NHS in England, including nearly 9,000 medical posts. This short-term risk to freeze or cut posts doesn’t help with the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan’s commitment to grow the NHS’s headcount. Some leaders said they will have to cut some services altogether or reduce the range of services they offer. One NHS trust chief executive told us: “I do not believe that it is possible for us to deliver all our financial, performance, workforce and quality/safety requirements next year – something has to give.” The landscape is made more difficult by the impact of industrial action – which has already led to >1.4million appointments or procedures being cancelled and cost the NHS around £3bn – and the significant costs of maintaining an ageing NHS estate. More on the capital and estates challenges here 🔗 https://bit.ly/3wWWKPv ***So what’s needed?*** Health leaders want the main political parties to safeguard local NHS organisations from having to freeze or cut clinical and non-clinical posts, especially given the task ahead in reducing waiting lists. The next government must ensure the NHS has the resources it needs. This includes at least £6.4bn of capital investment, commitment to fund the long term workforce plan, and a similar plan to be published for social care. More here on our election asks here 🔗 https://bit.ly/4bOpCsJ

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‘It is clear that support workers need more support themselves’ The conclusion can only be that not much has changed for HCAs and their social care counterparts in the more than 10 years since the Cavendish review. #nurse #nurses #nursing #health #healthcare #supportworkers #hcas #healthcareassistants #healthcaresupportworkers #nhs #socialcare https://lnkd.in/et3cuykf

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