Clinical Academic Hub HUB NEWS Issue: 6, April 2015 CONGRATULATIONS! WE HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY RECRUITING THROUGH THE HUB SINCE NOVEMBER 2014. HERE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS: Support from HR consultant Mark Hirst through NHS England Our Health visiting teams from Ealing Brent and Harrow win the Unsung Hero’s award at the LNWH Staff Excellence Awards in March 2015 'For their dedication and commitment through a period of massive change and uncertainty' National recruitment campaign ‘The journey begins here’ Recruitment through a newly developed microsite & telephone hotline Interviews offered within 24- 48hrs Virtual recruitment through the internet Recruitment fairs in various locations 68 Candidates interviewed for HV posts 51 Health Visitors recruited - 21 for Brent, 25 for Ealing & 6 for Harrow Funding for 25 Student places secured for Sept 2015. SCPN student posts advertised - 173 applications received, 56 interviewed & 25 appointed Health Visiting overall growth 16% The health visiting service has continued to deliver in what has been very difficult and challenging time. The service is now emerging stronger and better resourced and we are welcoming over 48 new health visitors to our service since our major recruitment drive in November. Monica Sherry, Assistant Director of Professional Standards for Children’s Community Nursing Services said: “It is fantastic that the health visiting service was recognised for their substantial contribution to children and families at the Trust Award ceremony. Your dedication and hard work is appreciated and now publicly acknowledged. Well done and you all should be very proud.” Viv Bennett Health Visitors…. In an open letter Viv Bennett has thanked the health visiting profession, partners and parents. She states: “I am writing to thank you for really incredible contributions that you have made to the national health visiting programme during the last four years.” “And so to the future. We have more health visitors than at any time since community nursing statistics were first recorded in 1971. ‘HV 456′ has been developed to show what can be achieved through the additional capacity and frontline leadership – vital services for supporting families for children’s health, development and resilience” Read more about it: https://vivbennett.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/23/transforming-healthvisiting-open-letter-thanks/ SICKLE CELL & THALASSAEMIA Changes in Policy & Community Practice Training This training will be delivered by Dr. Lola Oni, Specialist Nurse Consultant from Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre, and is aimed at health visitors. 30th April, 10.00 - 13.00 14th Sept, 10.00 - 13.00 Venue: Rooms 3&4, Sudbury Primary Care Centre Please book by emailing the hub ASQ- 3 TRAINING FOR 2 YEAR REVIEWS From October 2015, health visiting services will be expected to use Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3) as part of the 2- 2 ½ year child health reviews. FOR HEALTH VISITORS, COMMUNITY STAFF NURSES, NURSERY NURSES & STUDENTS Harrow: Belmont Health Centre 19th May 9.30 – 12.30 19th June 9.30 – 12.30 Brent: Sudbury PCC 29th April 9.30 – 12.30 20th May 9.30 – 12.30 4th June 9.30 – 12.30 4th June 1.30 – 16.30 Ealing: PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING HEALTH VISITORS, COMMUNITY STAFF NURSES & STUDENTS: (Attendance is required at both sessions 1 ½ days) Date 24th June 2015 25th June 2015 Time 9.15 – 16.30 9.15 – 13.00 Venue Sudbury PCC Rooms 3 & 4 Status Places Available 24th September 2015 25th September 2015 9.15 – 16.30 9.15 – 13.00 Sudbury PCC Rooms 3 & 4 Places Available NURSERY NURSES AND HEALTH VISITING ASSISTANTS: (Attendance is required at one session ½ days) Date 15th May 2015 Time 9.30 – 12.30 Venue Sudbury PCC, Rooms 3 & 4 16th October 2015 9.30 – 12.30 Sudbury PCC, Rooms 3 & 4 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (DV) TRAINING Our Specialist health visitor for DV Tanya Dennis from Harrow and DV Champions Julia Miller (Harrow) and Melanie Daniels (Ealing) will be rolling out the DH/IHV Domestic Violence programme to the health visiting workforce across our 3 boroughs. Book your place now: HEALTH VISITORS, COMMUNITY STAFF NURSES & STUDENTS: (Attendance is required at both sessions 1 ½ days) Date 3rd July 2015 6th July 2015 3rd September 2015 4th September 2015 Time 9.15 – 16.30 9.15 – 13.00 9.15 – 16.30 9.15 – 13.00 Venue Sudbury PCC, Rooms 3 & 4 Sudbury PCC, Rooms 3 & 4 NURSERY NURSES AND HEALTH VISITING ASSISTANTS: (Attendance is required at one session ½ days) Date 21st January 2015 Time 9.30 – 12.30 Venue Sudbury PCC, Rooms 3 & 4 4th February 2015 9.30 – 12.30 Sudbury PCC, Rooms 3 & 4 8th June 9.30 - 12.30 (Mattock Lane) 15th June 9.30 - 12.30 (GUV) INFANT MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING (NEW) FOR HEALTH VISITING ASSISTANTS (HVAs) Sudbury Primary Care Centre 18th May 10.00 – 12.00 3rd June 13.00 – 15.00 FOR HEALTH VISITING ASSISTANTS & CC STAFF Date 16th July 2015 Time 13.00 – 16.00 Venue Sudbury PCC, Rooms 3 & 4 To book a place on any of the above training please email us at the hub: [email protected] NURSE PRESCRIBING: ARE YOU PRESCRIBING? If you are registered with NMC as a Nurse Prescriber then it is crucial that you are prescribing in practice and keeping yourself up to date. We have been working with the Lead Pharmacist and Nurse Prescribing Lead to develop a training package for health visitors. This session will cover: Common conditions that health visitors prescribe Process of administering a prescription Communication with GP Documentation requirements Governance Training Date: Monday 22nd June 2015, 1.00 – 4.30pm Venue: Rooms 3&4, Sudbury Primary Care Centre To book a place please email us at the hub The Institute of Health Visiting has developed a Guide to Prescribing on Practice. It provides key information to support your prescribing decisions relating to the prescribing process, legislation, numeracy, and prescription writing. It also offers a refresher on how prescribing supports the delivery of the Early Years High Impact Areas. Click here to see the guide: SPECIALIST COMMUNITY PRACTICE TEACHER (SCPT) & MENTOR FORUMS Dates for your Diaries: Wed 20th May 2015, 2.00 – 4.00pm Wed 1st July 2015, 2.00 – 4.00pm Venue: Rooms 3&4, Sudbury Primary Care Centre STUDENT LEARNING SETS Speech & Language Therapy: Mon 27th April 2015 Venue: Meeting Room 1, Sudbury Primary Care Centre (2nd Floor) To attend please email: [email protected] FORTHCOMING TRAINING Infant Mental Health Essentials of 2 year health reviews Starting on Solids & Healthy Eating Weighting, Plotting & Centile Charts Minor Childhood Illnesses If you would like to be involved in delivering training through the hub then please email us. We are always looking for more staff involvement LOCAL NEWS After a three month break, the HCP Working Groups have now resumed. It was good to see so many of you attend the 3 sessions held this month. A number of new guidelines/ policies developed by the working groups have now been ratified, including: Standards for Antenatal Contacts New Birth Policy Infant Feeding Policy Growth Monitoring Guidelines Transition Pathways for Health Visiting & School Nursing Services HV & GP Communication Guidance A new ‘Health Visiting’ section is being created on our intranet, where all these ratified documents will be available from May 2015. You will be informed of the details through the hub. You may remember that in a staff survey conducted as part of the Health Visitor Retention Project by NHS employers in 2013, 75% of health visitors expressed that there was no clear health visiting career pathway within our organisation. This, alongside the absence of professional educational programmes for health visiting was reported to be key factors in staff considering their future in our Trust. Since the creation of the hub, considerable work has been undertaken to roll out standardised professional development programmes. We have now developed a clear career pathway for health visitors along with support packages, to help every health visitor plan their future career. These are intended to be used by all health visitors and discussed during regular managerial supervision, annual appraisals and personal development reviews. Click here to see a copy: Our Postnatal Depression (PND) wheel for mothers and fathers launched in January 2015 has generated a lot interest nationally. Sharin Baldwin & Trish Kelly presented the wheel at the annual Queen’s Nurse meeting in Birmingham in March. They also presented a professional poster on the wheel at the IHV Regional conference in London, which won the ‘Best Poster’ competition. The PND wheel is now available for purchase nationally. All our staff undertaking the Trust/ Hub Perinatal Mental training will be given a wheel. For more information please contact Sharin or Trish at the Hub: [email protected] NATIONAL NEWS Do you know about the NMC revised code? Effective from 31 March 2015, the revised Code reflects the world in which we live and work today, and changing roles and expectations of nurses and midwives. It is structured around four themes – prioritise people, practise effectively, preserve safety and promote professionalism and trust. Read more about it: http://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/ YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON: To keep up-to-date with all the latest news: The Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) has created a CPD directory to provide you with access to a wide range of CPD opportunities to enhance your capabilities as a health visitor. The resources have been quality assured and they come recommended by practitioners. Find out more from: http://www.ihv.org.uk/learning_hub/cpd_online_directory Have you seen the PHE Framework for Personalised Care and Population Health? This framework has been developed to maximise the impact of health professionals on improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities. It is a resource to support practitioners’ access to best evidence for practice and to support managers and commissioners to develop services to achieve best health outcomes for the populations they serve. This is also an excellent resource for all students. Access the framework here: www.facebook.com/HVCAH WE ARE NOW ALSO ON TWITTER Follow us on: @HVCAH https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm ent_data/file/377450/Framework_for_personalised_care_and_pop ulation_health_for_nurses.pdf Would you like your Career Profile to feature in the Independent Nurse journal? This is a great opportunity to showcase your nursing career and share some of the exciting work that you are doing. Trish Kelly has recently published her career profile. Click here to see it: This is open to all qualified nurses, so don’t miss this fantastic opportunity. Please contact Sharin Baldwin at the hub for more details: [email protected] Recent Publications Trish Kelly Associate Practice Teacher from the hub has recently written an article on How to deliver successful training? “Delivering training programmes to healthcare professionals isn’t a simple task, different aspects need to be considered to make it a success……..” Read more about it here: How to deliver successful training? Nursing in Practice, March 2015, page – 84. Heather Greenfield Health Visitor from Ealing has written some Good Practice Points for the Institute of Health Visiting on Gender Variance or Gender Dysphoria amongst children and adolescents. Read all about it here: COMMUNITY HEALTH RECORDS A message from Jenny Jean-Jacques, Interim Community Health Records Manager….. Community staff are reminded to take clinical notes out of their base only if it is absolutely necessary, the minimum amount of information required should always be taken. A record constitutes any document containing patient identifiable information, e.g. diaries, contact sheets, clinic appointment schedule. All records, clinical or otherwise must be transported in a secure and safe manner. Physical records must be secured and transported in a Tamper Evident Community Services Pouch, obtainable from the Community Health Records Manager. Records must not be stored in the home at any time as set out in the Community Health Records Management Policy. The transfer of confidential information must only be undertaken with the knowledge and involvement of the Information Governance Team and the Community Health Records Manager and with the use of a Trust Approved Courier. Original documents should never be sent outside the Trust. For further information on Community Health Records please contact Jenny Jean-Jacques, Interim Community Health Records Manager, on 0203 114 7144 or email: [email protected] NEW HEALTH VISITING SECTION ON THE INTRANET For all up-to-date health visiting policies, standards, guidelines, templates and much more.... A new health visiting section has been created on the intranet where you can access all ratified documents. They are under the following sections: 1) Policies, Guidelines, Standards & Pathways: includes New Birth policy, Growth Monitoring guidance, GP & HV Communication guidance, Infant feeding policy, and HCP Caseload Criteria. 2) Standardised Letters, Templates & Documents: includes Blood Spot letter, Transferin letter, ASQ questionnaires for 2 year reviews, 3-4 year letter and poster. 3) Education, Development & Career Pathways: includes National Induction Framework, Preceptorship programme, SPT & Mentor Guidance, Student HV Handbook, Health Visiting Career Pathways, Nursery Nurse Core training and Prescribing Guidance. 4) Staff Competencies: These are available for all clinical staff from Band 4 – Band 7. Competencies for Band 3 HVAs are currently being developed. To Access these please visit: http://lnwhintranet/departments/health-visiting/ OTHER NEWS WELCOME TO OUR 3 NEW HEADS OF SERVICE IN HEALTH VISITING Gill Peabody Ealing (East Sector) Joanna Collins Ealing (West Sector) On 11 March 2015, Sharin Baldwin, Eileen Bannis, Tanya Dennis, Heather Greenfield, Patricia Kelly, Suzette Muhammad and Monica Sherry from London North West Healthcare NHS Trust were amongst the 150 outstanding health visitors who convened at a conferment ceremony in London to receive their Fellowship of the Institute of Health Visiting (FiHV). Suzette Muhammad Harrow On Friday 27th March 2015 Sharin Baldwin was a finalist at the CPHVA awards ceremony in the category of Community Practitioner Team Leader of the year. Sharin was nominated by colleagues in Harrow. Sharin said she was ‘absolutely delighted’ to be shortlisted and felt it was a privilege to be considered for an award for doing the job she loves. She thanks all her ‘amazing and talented colleagues who have supported and inspired her along the way’. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! If you have any suggestions for the next newsletter or would like to share a story or any innovative practice taking place in your team then please contact us at the hub Email: [email protected] Facebook page: www.facebook.com/HVCAH Twitter: @HVCAH Website: http://www.lnwh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/our-careers/health-visitors/health-visitingclinical-academic-hub/
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