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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The Annual Buzz: Celebrang the achievements of Team DBTH in 2018/19 Your weekly DBTH update 24 September 2019 From Tuesday 1 October, we will begin vaccinang front-line staff against the flu and we urge all of you to accept the offer this Winter 2019. Yikes! It's almost flu season Thank you to everyone who aended the 2019 DBTH Star Awards and congratulaons to all our winners and highly commended nominees! Click here for the winners and to see the photos from the event. ! DBTH Star Awards 2019
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DBTH Buzz 20191

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals

NHS Foundation Trust

The Annual Buzz: Celebrating the achievements of Team DBTH in 2018/19

Your weekly DBTH update 24 September 2019

From Tuesday 1 October, we will begin vaccinating front-line staff against the flu and we urge all of you to accept the offer this Winter 2019.

Yikes! It's almost flu season

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2019 DBTH Star Awards and congratulations to all our winners and highly commended nominees! Click here for the winners and to see the photos from the event.

!DBTH Star Awards 2019

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DBTH Buzz 20192

Your Staff Survey is coming soon!Sent via our partners at Picker, the national NHS Staff Survey will arrive in inboxes in early October.

When it lands, please fill in this brief questionnaire and encourage colleagues to do the same.

This is an incredibly important engagement, and this year we are aiming for at least 60% of Team DBTH to complete the survey, beating our rate for last year.

Click here to see what changes we've made based

on your responses last year.

Introducing Doncaster and Bassetlaw Healthcare Services Next week, the Trust will launch its outpatient pharmacy company. Known as Doncaster and Bassetlaw Healthcare Services (DBHS), the Trust-owned subsidiary will use the same premises of the Well Pharmacy, as well as employ the same eight members of staff (on the same terms and conditions as before), bringing them into the wider NHS family.

As part of long-term business restructuring, the Well Pharmacy decided to withdraw from a large number of hospitals across the country, including DBTH. Seizing the opportunity for Team DBTH, we have decided to take on this service, which dispenses over 100,000 prescriptions each and every year, creating (DBHS) to oversee its day-to-day operations on behalf of the Trust. The benefits of this venture are numerous, such as creating an additional income stream for DBTH, making good use of our existing procurement chains to get the best deal for our patients, and ensuring the service is flexible and responsive to our needs as an organisation. The current Well Pharmacy will close its doors on Friday 27 September for a very small refurbishment and rebranding, and will reopen its doors on Monday 30 September as the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Healthcare Services Outpatient Pharmacy.

Please note our Trust Inpatient Pharmacy Team will remain entirely separate from this new venture.

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DBTH Buzz 20193

New pay progression systemA new pay system, with faster progression to the top of your band will be implemented for all staff in April 2021. From that date, your increments, or 'pay step points' as they will be called happen after two, three and five years depending on the band but will be in bigger chunks than the previous increments. We are currently in a transition period where the new system applies to staff recruited or promoted after 1 April 2019. For all of you who were already employed in your current role at 1 April 2019, your incremental dates will remain the same until the new arrangements take effect on 1 April 2021. The Trust is currently planning for the implementation of the new system and we'll be sending out regular messages in the run up.

If you have any questions about the new system, please click here

and submit your query through the online form. We'll create a rolling

FAQ page and update it as we go.

NHS Employers have put together some helpful guidance for

employees to help you understand and prepare for the new pay

progression framework. Access it here.

Questions?

What will change?This new, national system is underpinned by annual appraisals and regular conversations with your manager about your development and performance. To move to your next pay step point, you will need to work with your manager to make sure that you have met the following requirements:

SET training must have been completed with full compliance

You have had an appraisal in the last 12 months and the outcomes have been loggedby your manager in line with organisational standards

For line managers only - appraisals must have been completed for all your team members

There should also be no formal disciplinary sanctions or capability processes in place or live on your record, except where these relate to sickness absence.

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DBTH Buzz 20194

NewsCare Certificate Self-Assessment If you're a HCA, support worker or therapy assistant, you can complete the Care Certificate to further develop your career.

The vocational education team are holding various sessions for staff to book onto to complete the Care Certificate Self-Assessment. You will be issued with the standards you require to complete the course and a competency log book with a deadline for submission.

Click here to see the available sessions.

Email [email protected] or call 644786 to book your place

Mentor to Practice Assessor Transition Training DatesTo comply with the new NMC standards, all our current mentors (nursing) must attend a three hour transition update session to become a Practice Assessor.Prior to attending the three hour update all men-tors must watch the Online Core Mentor Update to gain an understanding of the new roles and the new Practice Assessment Document and complete the FAQ Quiz.

To facilitate this necessary change all our Trust mentor updates will now revert to a three hour session on the dates previously booked with a number of extra sessions booked. Click here to view the available sessions.

For employeesEveryone in the Trust has access to the ESR Portal, where you can already view your personal details and payslips.

However, once ESR Self Service rolls out, you will be able to do even more with the system.

For example, you will be able to do things like update your phone numbers, change address; and amend your bank account details – all without having to send any forms through to SBS.

It’s a really straightforward system, one that saves a lot of time and gives you extra confidence that your changes are being processed promptly.

ESR Self-Service - 2 Weeks to Go!

Supervisors and Managers will be able to see data on their employees too: including sickness absence, training compliance and appraisals.

This enhanced functionality is called Manager Self Service and to access it, you will need a smart card.

On a related note, if managers wish to make any changes to their employees (like contract changes), then this will also need to be done through the Self Service portal.

This means that, as of 8 October, SBS will be rejecting any forms that are sent through to them so, if you are a manager, please make sure that you can access the system.

To find out more, click here.

For managers

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DBTH Buzz 20195

We are Proud @ DBTHLast Saturday (21 September 2019), we asked members of Team DBTH to share what they were most proud of over the past seven days. Below are a selection of comments. A weekly fixture, if you wish to get involved, join the Trust’s staff Facebook group and take part in the conversation next Saturday morning. We want to hear what made you proud to be Team DBTH this week.

I am proud of our team on Ward 1&3. We attended the Star Awards as finalists, the event was such a fantastic positive experience. It was lovely to hear all the great work going on throughout the Trust. We are going next year whether we are nominated or not! Well done to all the winners.

- Vicky

"I am proud of the brilliant turn out for our first World Patient Safety Day. Thank you to everyone involved for making it a success."

- Julie

"I was extremely Proud of all the fantastic nominees and winners at this weeks Star Awards. Brilliant examples of the great work everyone does every day."

- Richard

"I’m really proud of our clinical admin teams across all sites for embracing change, being pro-active in reducing some of our long waiters to improve patient care whilst understaffed but keeping a positive outlook, every single person makes a difference"

- Claire

"This week I left my role as service assistant to begin my nursing degree. I have made some of the most amazing friends with all the staff I have worked with and I am proud to have been a part of team dbth."

- Kirsty

Join the Facebook group to read more and leave a proud post!

"Making a difference to patients who are feeling very vulnerable, getting positive feedback from them and relatives of their experience on admission to the clinic ESAC (emergency surgical ambulatory clinic) so lovely to be informed about the care we provide well done team ESAC."

- Tracey

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DBTH Buzz 20197

Special Lecture for National AHP DayOn Friday 11 October, there will be a specially themed lecture for Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Day. The talk will be led by a wide-range of knowledgeable speakers, who all have experience working with AHPs.

It is a great opportunity to find out how these vital colleagues support the organisation and what they can do for your teams and services, so please consider coming along!

With the DrDoctor system, our patients can keep track of their clinical appointments and access service specific information.

For this to happen, we will need to have their current mobile number. Please help by letting patients know about this and asking them to supply these details to the reception desk of any service.

Help patients to access DrDoctor

Attend the AMM DBTH's Annual Members' Meeting will be on Thursday 26 September, 4pm at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster.

You can register your attendance here.

ESR Self Service: Who to ContactWith ESR Self Service launching in just 3 weeks time, we thought we’d put together a hand guide explaining who to contact once the go-live is complete. Different teams will be able to help you with different issues, so it will save you time if you know where to go.

Holiday Discounts for DBTH StaffVivup, who provide one of our employee benefit schemes, have partnered with Hotelopia to offer us a variety of holiday discounts. This includes cost saving on hotels, transfers, activities and car hire in over 7,500 destinations! Find out more by visiting the Vivup platform.

Director drop-in sessions for Estates & FacilitiesKirsty Edmondson-Jones, will be offering Estates and Facilities drop-in Session’, for all Estates and Facilities staff. DRI - Estates & Facilities Department 10 October 5 November 12 December

Montagu Admin Office 18 October 15 November

Bassetlaw - The Hub 27 September 31 October 5 December

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DBTH Buzz 20198

Hospital services moving away from Chequer Road ClinicAs we communicated in late 2018, our Mammography, Audiology and Children’s Speech and Language Therapy services will be moving away from the Chequer Road Clinic in early 2020 as a result of the town centre premises becoming increasingly unfit for purpose, an issue which has become particularly challenging for Audiology services.

As the service investigates conditions relating to hearing, the current clinic’s flat roof and out-of-date design makes testing very difficult in certain weather conditions, meaning that patients sometimes have to wait for a break in the clouds before getting the treatment they need.

Seeking to resolve this issue, the Trust will be moving the three services currently based at Chequer Road to the following locations:

• Mammography and Children’s Speech and Language Therapy will move less than a third of a mile to Devonshire House (Cavendish Court, South Parade, Doncaster, DN1 2DJ).

• Audiology will move less than two miles away to The Sandringham Practice (Sandringham Road, Intake, Doncaster, DN2 5JH)

The new locations are in buildings which are fit-for-purpose for the services which will be provided, with refurbishments to take place to ensure a smooth continuation of care for patients. This includes the building of state-of-the-art sound rooms for Audiology, as well as the purchase of all new Mammography equipment in order to speed up and enhance screening for service-users.

To help colleagues familiarise themselves with their new ‘base’, regular site visits will be undertaken, and we are hoping to complete all renovation work by the end of the year.

Currently we are still in discussions with contractors and NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in order to refurbish these locations, as well as ensure our IT and networking is in place, work which could potentially push the proposed date back, and we will communicate this well ahead of time if this is the case.

Once we have a confirmed timeline in place, existing patients will be notified with at least six weeks’ notice of the change of venue. Both new clinics will offer on-site parking as well as being accessible via regular bus routes. We will communicate further once we know more and we want to thank the affected teams in advance for their patience during this transitional phase.

#SpeakUpToMeWe are refreshing our Freedom to Speak Up Guardian branding and communications.

If you wish to raise a concern please speak initially to your line manager or contact the FTSU Helpline on 01302 644300 or contact the confidential email service on [email protected]. For further information on raising a concern with the FTSUG and the process, click here.

Email: [email protected] visit The Hive: extranet.dbth.nhs.uk/ftsug

Our Freedom to Speak Up Guardians can offer you support and advice.

We are committed to creating an open and

transparent organisation where everyone is

actively encouraged and enabled to speak up

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals

NHS Foundation Trust

We care. We listen. We act.Find your career atwww.dbth.nhs.uk/jointheteam

Here at DBTH

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DBTH Buzz 20199

Clinical Audit Awareness WeekClinical Audit Awareness Week is running from 25 November to 29 November.DBTH will be organising all kinds of activities, including an educational drop in session 28th November, Learning Room 3, Education Centre and celebratory awards. There will also be a chance to nominate your Clinical Audit Hero and the winners will be announced on 28th November 2019.

This will be perfect opportunity to find out more about what Clinical Audit actually means to the Trust, shinning a light on some of the best examples from the past year. Any-one interested in taking part should contact the Audit and Effectiveness Department on 01302 642160.

In the meantime, please keep any eye out for more details on social media and in Buzz.

PROUD to be involved in...

Clinical Audit#CAAW

Your parking permit explainedAs the works progress with the number recognition barriers on our carparks, we're answering some of your questions about your permits and where to park. At the Trust, we offer a range of colour-coded parking permits that give different privileges.

To clear up which is which, and what they all do, we’ve broken each of them down with this helpful guide.

Please note: If you currently park in the Chatsfield car park (or Hut 5 as you may know it as) the barrier is not currently in operation and will be activated in two week's time.

Please continue to park there as notmal during this grace period.

All staff who park on site and pay for car parking through salary, should be advised that the Trust will share your name, car registrations details and permit number with Saba UK to ensure you can safely enter and exit the ANPR car parks.

Macmillan Coffee Morning On 27 September, the Palliative Care team will be hosting a Macmillan coffee morning in the Boardroom at DRI. Everyone is welcome to join the team for tea, coffee and cakes and to take part in the raffle and tombola.

All of the proceeds from the day will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. Head over to the Board-room between 9.30am and 2pm!

Pathology do Made in Dagenham Members of the DBTH Pathology Team are taking part in a production of Made in Dagenham the Musical at Cast Doncaster! Jessica Mellow is in charge of choreography while Pete McGinley and Kevin Scholey are on the theatre crew. The show is on 12th-16th November at Cast Doncaster. Tickets are available here.

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Meet Stella, Rachel Howard's 16 week old Sprocker (Springer and Cocker) Spaniel puppy!

Please keep your photos coming in, by sending them to [email protected] (in jpeg format) and we will publish some of the best in future issues.

Stella the Sprocker


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