UPDATE2EDITION 49 SEPTEMBER ‘13 STAFF NEWSLETTER

Charity of the YearSouthern Area Hospice

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The Southern Area Hospice Service is the Trust’s Charity of the Year.

The Southern Area Hospice provides free support and care to people who are suffering from Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disease and AIDS.

Staff can get involved in fundraising by attending or arranging events or making donations.

As well as its inpatient unit in Newry, the Hospice runs Out-Patient Clinics in Craigavon Hospital, South Tyrone Hospital and Newry. The Southern Area Hospice also

provides a range of services to improve the quality of life for people affected by cancer and other terminal illnesses and supports families and carers. Day hospices in Newry and Dungannon provide medical support and social activities.

The hospice relies on voluntary donations and must raise £2.3 million this year to sustain its services. Look out for events or send fundraising suggestions to Tracey Woods tracey.woods@southerntrust.hscni.net

Southern Area Hospice and Trust Staff at the launch

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New electronic patient record system launched

The new Electronic Care Record system is being implemented in the Trust on a phased basis from mid-July. Pictured is the Trust ECR project team responsible for implementing this new system which provides easy access to key information about a person’s medical history, including details of past or on-going diagnoses and investigations, medications or treatments.

Trust at a Glance

Building better health awareness

Construction workers on the new £12.3 million main theatres 1-4 refurbishment before a recent Men’s Health and Wellbeing Awareness session at Craigavon Area Hospital. Also pictured (l-R): Sharon Clarke, Macmillan Cancer Information Project Manager, Carolyn Ross, Dermatology Nurse, Nicky Hayes Southern Trust Planning Offi cer, Adene Donaghy, Technical Project Administrator (Farrans).

Cutting-edge new hand-hygiene training unit trialled

Katherine Walsh and her son Finn pictured with the new hand-hygiene training unit recently trialled at Craigavon Area Hospital. Also pictured are Angela McVeigh, Southern Trust Acting Executive Director of Nursing and Barbara Soye, Infection Control Nurse. ‘SureWash’ uses camera, video and graphics to deliver hand-hygiene training and assessment and feed-back is given to the user in real time on the screen.

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Daisy Hill Hospital Doctors

Foundation year 1 doctors in Daisy Hill with their Educational Supervisor Dr Shane Moan for an end of year photograph.

Trust at a Glance

Local Pathologists welcome new lab test ‘App’Dr Peter Sharpe viewing the new Lab Tests Online-UK, free mobile ‘app’ which aims to help patients better understand the many clinical lab tests used in diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease clinical lab tests. Dr Sharpe is Regional Chair of the Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

Local grannies support breastfeeding!Pictured at the recent Craigavon Area Hospital Breastfeeding information event is: (Front row from left) - Brian Currie, Kerry Currie, Rachael Dunlop, (Back row from left) - Veronica Currie, Sandra Hewitt; Trust Breastfeeding Co-Ordinator, Jeanette Carson.

Breastfeeding events were held in Craigavon, Armagh, Newry, Coalisland and Portadown to mark National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (24- 28 June 2013) and focused on how family members can support and encourage new mothers to breastfeed.

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Health Clinic TeamWho is in the Team the team is comprised of two Health Clinic Nurses Oonagh Curran and Mary Heatley, a Support Worker Andrew Martin, and Jonathan Fyfe the (GUM Specialist Lead Nurse) who recently joined the team.

Role of the Team: To provide an advice service to young people aged 16- 25 years within Further Education College settings, in relation to sexual health and other health and wellbeing issues. The clinic provides free condoms, pregnancy testing, emergency contraception and STI testing as well as information and advice on a range of other health and wellbeing issues for young people e.g. diet, physical activity, smoking cessation, mental health etc..

Achievements The Health Clinic service is provided within Armagh, Portadown, Dungannon and Newry Further Education College settings. The service will be extended to Banbridge campus in September. To date there have been over 900 young people using the service and have mostly been young men.

The Health Clinic Service was awarded joint overall winner in the Trust’s 2011 Excellence Awards Service and winner of the Creativity and Innovation category.

Challenges Promoting the uptake of the service by young people is an on-going challenge and the Support Worker has been invaluable in encouraging young people to make use of the service.

Making a Difference to Young people The service is helping young people to look after and improve their sexual health. Young people have told us:

• ‘I felt comfortable and welcome’• ‘found out good information on how sexual diseases can take place’• ‘The clinic was good and the nurse gave me valuable advice about sexual health’

Other Comments: If you would like further information please contact the Health Clinic team on Tel: 02837 412891 or health.clinic@southerntrust.hscni.net

Oral health training prizeElizabeth Spence (pictured right) was one of 950 Domiciliary Care Workers who received oral health awareness training on caring for older people’s teeth from the Community Dental Service.

The Domiciliary Care Workers completed questionnaires on the training and whether it had changed their work practices. All respondents were entered into a draw which Elizabeth won and she received her prize from Deirdre Conlon, Senior Dental Offi cer in the Community Dental Service

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The Trust’s Health Clinic Team

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Open University Pre-registration Nursing Programme

Band 5 nurses Paul McConnell, Rosaleen McDermott, Sarah Hughes, Sonia Willis and Adele Trainor have completed the OU Pre-registration Nursing Programme.

(Back row) Gerry Guy, Practice Education Facilitator; Sarah Hughes, Rosaleen McDermott, Paul McConnell, Adele Trainor (front row) Lynn Fee, Assistant Director of Nursing; Mary Donnelly, Willows Ward Manager; Sonia Willis; and Karen Williamson, Silverwood Ward Manager.

Meet SandraSandra Hewitt is a married mum of three daughters and a midwife for the past 20 years with a passion for improving the health and well-being of mothers and babies by increasing breastfeeding rates in the Trust.

What is your role in the Trust?I took up the position of Breastfeeding Co-Ordinator in November 2011. My role is to work with all colleagues who have any contact with pregnant women and new mothers towards improving standards of maternity care by achieving the WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Accreditation for the Trust. Since my appointment we have achieved for Craigavon Area Hospital stage 2 and Daisy Hill Hospital and Newry and Mourne locality stage 1.

What is the biggest challenge in your job?Influencing change in practice

What gives you the most job satisfaction? Ante-natal infant feeding classes and guiding and supporting a new mother in the skills to breastfeed successfully and knowing that my influence will have lifelong physical and mental health benefits to both mother and baby.

Get to know your colleague in 30 seconds!

Favourite Hobby walking, dancing and singing, I’m a member of the Southern Trust choirFavourite Music/Song “I’ve had the time of my life” from Dirty dancingNight in or Night out? Night out definitely with good music and dancingFavourite Film as a child Chitty Chitty Bang Bang would have loved adventures in a flying car, as older anything with good story, romance, few tears and a happy ending. Pearl HarbourHow would you like to be remembered? For making a difference, for being kind thoughtful and encouraging people to feel good.Describe yourself in 3 words Friendly, sincere and reliableIdeal holiday any beautiful location with good company, sun, sea and lots of activities such as archery, rifle shooting and dance classes, with a few days after to relax. Dream holiday would be a world cruise!What can you not live without? Family and friends and chocolate with nuts and honeycomb ice cream—in moderation of courseWhat was the last book you read? Life of Pi Ideal dinner guest? The team from Strictly Come Dancing!

Staff as Service Users

Tell us YOUR Story

Thank you to everyone who has told their story so far. The Trust has received its first download of stories and will now be sharing these with Directorate teams to review the lessons that can be learned from the experiences recorded. In total, 77 stories have been submitted by Trust staff, which has been a really good start for this initiative. Feedback will be available shortly.

In the meantime, please keep on sharing your experiences in order to improve services for others. Your story can be entered by clicking ‘Staff as Service Users’ on home page of the intranet or by phoning 028 37 412593 for a paper copy.

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Andrew’s birthday present to The LaurelsBessbrook man Andrew Moore has presented The Laurels Day Centre with arts and crafts materials, sports and training equipment and a PA system to the value of £1,625. He also presented a cheque to Southern Area Hospice £1,625 following his recent 50th birthday.

Maureen Carvill, Assistant Manager, The Laurels; Andrew Moore; Yvonne O’Callaghan, Day Care Worker, The Laurels; and Andrew’s sister Kathleen Moore

Avoiding overnight hospital stays for childrenA new Ambulatory Unit has opened in the Children’s Ward at Craigavon Hospital for children who need a short period of observation or treatment but don’t require an overnight stay. Staffed by two Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners, supported by the Medical Team, the Unit takes referrals from the Emergency Department and GPs. The Unit is open from 9am to 10pm Monday to Friday. It is supported by the Community Children’s Nursing Team which has extended hours to provide follow up care for the growing number of children who will be treated in their own homes.

The new children’s Ambulatory Team at Craigavon Area Hospital.

Addressing alcohol misuse

The Trust is working in partnership with six voluntary and community sector organisations on innovative plans to tackle alcohol misuse. With funding of £844,000 from the Big Lottery Fund over 3 years, the Impact of Alcohol programme will provide a range of services to individuals and families.

At the launch of the BIG Impact of Alcohol Community and Voluntary Project are (front row) Marie Donnelly, Addiction Northern Ireland; Fiona Burns, Women’s Aid; (middle row) Kieran Devlin, Impact of Alcohol Portfolio Manager, Southern Trust; Joanne McConville, Primary Mental Health Care Services Manager, Southern Trust; Gerard Rocks, Acting Assistant Director of Promoting Wellbeing, Southern Trust; Annette Daykin-Goodall, Dunlewey Substance Advice Centre; (back row) Fiona Harte, Breakthru; Amanda Doherty, Big Lottery Fund; Dave Murphy, Relate Northern Ireland; and Deirdre Canavan, Depaul Ireland

Employment and Learning Minister at the ‘Print Room’

Catherine Corrigan (fifth from left), Lorraine Knox (third from right), Lisa Polland-O’Hare (second right) and Peader White (right) joined Southern Trust Chair Roberta Brownlee, Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry and young people at the official opening of The Print Room Specifically ASD project in Armagh.

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Hearty Lives Craigavon

The Hearty Lives Craigavon project aims to increase awareness of the risk factors of heart disease for both Black Minority Ethnic (BME) and Irish Traveller communities living in the Craigavon area. Both communities recently took part in workshops to provide direction on ways to help improve their heart health.

Adele Sinnamon, Hearty Lives Craigavon Co-ordinator; Barbara and Theresa Doherty, local community representatives and Roberta Brownlee, Chair, at the Traveller’s event

New Exciting Opportunity Connect Coaching Network

The Trust’s Connect Coaching Service offers a confi dential, one-to-one, time-limited (usually 4-5 sessions) coaching service offered by professionally trained coaches. Coaching sessions will typically last from 30 minutes to 1 hour and, where possible, will be via telephone.

13 senior managers from the Southern Trust are now available as Coaches, along with colleagues from the Western Trust, HSE West and HSE Dublin North East – giving a total of 72 senior health and social care managers drawn from across all of the CAWT partner organisations who are able to offer confi dential one-to-one coaching. Further information is available on the Trust Intranet.

Back row (left to right): Teresa Ross, Bronagh McKeown, Fiona Wright, Aldrina Magwood, Pauline Matier, Carmel Harney, Jacqueline Morton. Front row (left to right): Anne Forsythe, Marita Magennis, Tierna Armstrong, Jenny Johnston. Southern Trust Coaches missing from the photograph are Monica White and Nuala Gorman.

At the BME event are Adele Sinnamon, Hearty Lives Craigavon Co-ordinator; Carolina Aguinaga, local community representative and Angela McVeigh, Director of Older People and Primary Care

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Do you know an individual or team whose outstanding work on behalf of the Trust

deserves recognition?Then don’t keep it to yourselfDo you know an individual or team

whose outstanding work on behalf of the Trustdeserves recognition?

Then don’t keep it to yourself

We value our staff...so let’s recognise their achievements!

To make your nominationgo online to the Trust’s intranet or website

www.southerntrust.hscni.net/staffexcellenceawards2013

or contact Employee Engagement and Relations on 028 3741 2586for a Nomination Pack.

Closing date for nominations is 31 January 2014 at 5pm.

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Staff Give and Gain

As part of the Trust In Community initiative on 11June staff participated in Give and Gain day. There were a range of opportunities to volunteer and provide practical support for the Southern Area Hospice in Newry, Lisanally Special School in Armagh and Praxis Care in Lurgan. Staff were involved in different tasks from gardening, painting and mending garden furniture.

Patricia Sherlock from the Trust’s Sensory Disability Team said; “The Give and Gain day was brilliant. We worked really hard but the Hospice looked after us well and appreciated our efforts. I think far more people should participate in the volunteering days offered by the Trust, especially when they are employer supported and staff don’t need to use valuable annual leave to take part”.

Nicola Murphy who works in the Trust’s Finance Department agrees: “It was my fi rst experience of volunteering and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The staff and clients at Praxis were all very friendly and welcoming.”

Praxis Care staff appreciated the support: “All volunteers were very enthusiastic. They were a great team who worked extremely well with both staff and service users.”

The Give and Gain Day was run in partnership with Business in the Community.

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Staff volunteers and Praxis Care representatives on Give and Gain Day in Praxis Care, Lurgan

Staff volunteers and Lisanally Special School representatives on Give and Gain Day in Lisanally Special School, Armagh

Staff volunteers and Southern Area Hospice representatives on Give and Gain Day in the Southern Area Hospice, Newry