A one day advanced course for staff on designated adult ward areas that care for patients with tracheostomies on a regular basis. Candidates will build upon knowledge learnt on the foundation tracheostomy course, learning skills and knowledge around pharmacological management, impact of tracheostomy on speech and swallowing, tracheostomy weaning, community management and practical skills of changing a tracheostomy.

PLEASE NOTE: 'All candidates must complete the Barts Foundation Tracheostomy course prior to booking onto this course'

There is pre-reading required - MUST BE DONE BEFORE ATTENDING THE COURSE

Please log into Moodle https://education.bartshealth.nhs.uk/moodlelive for all Acute Care Skills course pre-reading, modules & e-learning and resources

Designed for clinical staff working within Enhanced care units 1.5 or level 2/3 areas: non-paediatric nursing, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, medics

PRE-COURSE WORK MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE ATTENDING THE COURSE - select More Info tab for Moodle link

 The course is broken into two components; the first component includes an e-learning package that must be completed prior to attending the practical half day session. The e-learning package will include resources on vascular anatomy, advantages & disadvantages, complications, management of invasive lines, and relevant articles.

The practical session of this course is conducted in the medical simulation centres and will enable staff to practice using invasive lines and transducer sets. To conclude the practical session scenarios will be discussed and analysed where complications, trouble shooting and escalations has occurred.

The SIREN course teaches nursing staff how to anticipate, recognise and prevent critical illness at an early stage. A structured approach to assessment is undertaken to permit appropriate action in treating the acutely unwell. Communication training using the SBAR tool is covered. There is an assessable OSCE which reviews recognition, assessment and communication.

There is pre-reading required - MUST BE DONE BEFORE ATTENDING THE COURSE

Please log into Moodle https://education.bartshealth.nhs.uk/moodlelive for all Acute Care Skills course pre-reading, modules & e-learning and resources

Designed for clinical staff: non-paediatric nursing, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational Therapists, Physician Associates, Apprentice AHP’s, Advanced Practice Practitioners, medical Practitioners

PRE-COURSE WORK MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE ATTENDING THE COURSE - select More Info tab for Moodle link

The course is broken into two components; the first component includes an e-learning package that must be completed prior to attending the practical half day session. The e-learning package will include resources on responsibilities of healthcare workers when delivering oxygen, oxygen escalation scales, precautions, oxygen device information, pathophysiology of hypoxia, and relevant articles.

The practical session of this course is conducted in the medical simulation centres and will enable staff to practice and increase their confidence in using different oxygen devices including HFOT. Participants will receive advanced HFOT train the trainer teaching that will equipped them to teach other members of staff within their speciality areas. The course will be concluded by discussing common oxygen scenarios and interventions.

Registered Practitioners assessing Bands 2-4 to complete the Care Certificate

These workshops will give assessors the tools they need to assess healthcare support workers who have engaged with the care certificate programme.

Professionally registered healthcare practitioners (including preceptees), designated assistant practitioners and health care support workers who will be undertaking peripheral Cannulation and Venepuncture/Phlebotomy.

This one day interactive workshop will teach you about cannulation and venepuncture.

Suitable for staff without previous training on Venepuncture and Cannulation.

 Mandatory V&C e-learning

Staff must complete the cannulation and venepuncture e-learning before booking/attending the session.

Please bring evidence of completing both modules to the face to face session.

 Cannulation e-learning:

You will need to create an account the first time you access it and include your NHS Trust, Job Title & Clinical Area as a mandatory field.

Access via this link : https://bbraunmedical.mylearningapp.com/login/signup.php

Once registration is completed, the system will ask you for enrolment key. Please use: Barts2021

 Venepuncture e-learning:

You will need to create an account the first time you access it. The Training consists of 8 modules, you must complete, and you need to achieve an overall score of 70%.

 Access via this link: 

 https://bd.elmg.net/?rc=621a9a4f7e23e646a93d0336e3072dbf

It is mandatory to read all the information in the ‘more information/pre-course work and resources’ section prior to attending the course. Candidates not completing all the required pre-course work will not be permitted into the session.

Transfusion training is a core element of statutory and mandatory training for all staff involved in the transfusion process.

Career Development programme for Femal & BME Clinical and non Clinical Staff

A series of three practical and motivational personal and career development workshops to help Barts Health staff to:

• Boost confidence, strengths, raise awareness and aspirations
• Identify and develop career aspirations, plan and strategies
• Build job application, interview and presentation skills.

This facilitated empowering programme is designed to raise the confidence, aspirations and attainment among female and Black Minority Ethnic (BME) staff at Barts Health.

Covid 19- Leading in NUH ICU during Pandemic

NUH ICU and Education Academy is offering  an Interactive session providing excellent opportunity to explore your feelings as leaders during pandemic. Also will include Psychological PPE, Blood Transfusion safety and DKA Training

Three Day Dementia and Delirium Training Course.
Training is being provided to ensure staff have an in depth knowledge of the needs of individuals living with dementia and delirium in hospital. Staff are required to attend all three days of the programme.
Day one will cover - Understanding patients living with dementia and delirium,
as well as Simulation and Communication.
Day two will cover – Legal aspects – DOLs/MCA and Physical Health.
Day three will cover – Implementation of positive change in practise.

The Overall Aim of the Programme

The art and value of effective facilitation

Understanding processes including needs assessment, establishing aims and objectives and evaluation

Planning and preparing workshops

Meeting the needs of participants through a range of participatory facilitation techniques

Dealing with challenges and challenging behaviour

The use of facilitation skills

Enable participants to start debriefing with an understanding of some human factors theory and debriefing frameworks.

Assisting teaching using simulation based techniques.

This is carried out as both a face to face session and a Webinar - please only book one.

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the essential principles of end of life care. With focus on the  importance of getting the basics right and what is required to achieve patient centred care.  Highlighting how this can be applied in the acute setting to compassionately support patients and their loved ones.  

Fire Wardens Training (Clinical)

An advanced face to face training session which also covers elements of site based training. Training items to include:

1) Importance of fire

2)Evacuation Principles/Strategy

3)Clinical Evacuation Decision Tree

4) Tabletop Evacuation Scenario Based.

Specific fire evacuation strategies will also be covered such as peronal evacuation plans, Fire Warden Check List

Note: This session is for clinical staff only clinical Band 5-7 (only Red or Amber staff). . There is a practical element involving using an extinguisher on a fire held outside. Please wear appropriate clothing with this in mind.

The Fundamentals of Care Development Programme is a personal development programme for  Support Workers who wants to develop their themselves programme aims to build on the expansion of the existing Health Care support workers, who have already completed the Care Certificate, and to increase their awareness and improve patient experience for effective patient outcomes. This is a continuing professional development programme to equip the HCSWs with knowledge skills and behaviours to effectively provide safe and compassionate care. More importantly this programme gives the participants the opportunity to proficiently undertake Enhanced Care to patients who require closer monitoring or those patients who are at risk of harm to self or others.

Additionally, this programme will provide the HCSWs with the opportunity to undertake and lead a Quality Improvement project in their service clinical areas.

To discuss up dates on what’s happening at Barts Health NHS  Trust
Information on career  and development  pathways for  Bands 1-4 including HEI partners
Learning  and development  opportunities  provided by  specialist within the Trust
Individual experience  and  opportunity to  learn from each other.

Interim OSCE Programme for International Nurses

OSCE Practice for International Nurses

IV Therapy 

Information on how to access CapitalNurse IVT e-assessment & e-passport on HEE e-LfH (Please note: IV Therapy is no longer delivered as a face to face facilitated session)

ESR Access to IV Therapy e-assessment & e-passport on HEE e-LfH

You can now access IV Therapy e-assessment and e-passport via Barts Health Electronic Staff Record Learning Management System with your log-in or smart cards. From the ESR portal, you can choose the option - my learning and search the course catalogue for:

000 IV Therapy Passport. Thiswilllink you to the IV T course and pressing start will upload this to your ESR portal. The ESR keeps a record that you have started and completed the course.

The IV Therapy Passport

The IV Therapy Passport is an agreed approach and pathway through intravenous (IV) medication administration training and assessment. It has been developed and designed through collaboration with stakeholders from health care organisations and higher education institutes across London.

The pathway leads Health Care Professionals (HCP) to gain an IV Therapy Passport which enables that person to transfer between organisations in London with their IV skills, without the need to retrain. The passport enables health care professionals to transfer with their IV skills, between organisations in London without the need to retrain. 

Although designed and developed in London, the pathway is of relevance nationally.The passport is designed for registered and student health care professionals caring for infants, children, young people and adults, whose role requires the administration of intravenous medication for patients. Healthcare professionals can access the pathway and passport at a range of points in their career, these may be as:

• pre-registration student such as a student nurse or midwife 
• internationally recruited healthcare professional
• registrant after registration with a professional body
• existing member of the workforce to up-skill.

The IV Therapy Passport’s 3-steps pathway

The pathway to the passport is comprised of three steps as illustrated below: 

Step 1 Access Learning

The IV Therapy Passport programme for e-learning is on the HEE e-Learning for Healthcare hub (e-LfH). This programme of e-learning provides the full curriculum and is the preferred route to access the learning required for the passport. Read more about it here e-LfH IV Therapy Passport programme page and access the e-learning by following the link e-LfH Hub.

Step 2 Assess Knowledge

Assessment of knowledge is via e-assessment on the e-LfH Hub – this is the standardised gateway to practice learning and assessment. A drug calculation eAssessment is included.

Step 3 IV Practice Learning and Assessment (IV PLAD)

This IV Practice Learning and Assessment Document (IV PLAD) for the pathway is composed of a set of core proficiencies and a choice of optional proficiencies, selected to be relevant to a HCP’s current role.

Download IV PLAD for use in practice after completing Step 1 and 2.

The IV Therapy Passport (IV PLAD): The passport is evidence of the HCP’s learning, assessment, and proficiency in IV Therapy.

Intravenous Pump Training

On completion of the CapitalNurse e-assessment, please book your pump training with Barts Health Medical Device Team (bartshealth.medicaldevicetraining@nhs.net). For information on pump training: https://weshare.bartshealth.nhs.uk/medical-device-training 

IVT Drug Calculation Workshop

HCPs can access the IVT Drug Calculation Workshop and information on Moodle. This IVT Workshop provides additional support for HCPs before completing the CapitalNurse e-assessment and HCPs who may require further help with the mathematical contents involved in drug calculations. 

For more information or support please contact IV Therapy Lead:

oluwafiropo.olaofe@nhs.net

For further information on CapitalNurse IVT e-assessment and IV PLAD, please refer to the Capital Nurse presentation.

This is a 90 minute teazching using the millennium system including recording of electronic observations.

 This course is an excellent development opportunity for both qualified staff and health care support workers. Your link workers will help you to build best practice for patient safety and dignity during handling, as well as promote staff safety and wellbeing.

NB: Suitable clothing and shoes must be worn for practical sessions (shoes must be flat and cover toes, no flip flops). For Health & Safety reasons delegates will not be permitted into the session without appropriate footwear

The new Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA) are commencing from September 2019.

The annual updates are an opportunity for all mentors/assessors/supervisors to discuss and share information on changes within undergraduate nursing education.

Non-Medical Prescriber Conference

Annual Conference for all non medical prescribers and trainees.

Overall Aims

• To provide a forum for all non-medical prescribers and trainees to network and share issues, developments audit and practice
• To provide CPD updates relating to prescribing practice, legislations and trust policies and procedures

 Learning Outcomes

• Awareness in current legislation and National / regional/ local developments for non-medical prescribing
• Aware of trusts developments for non-medical prescribers including policies and procedures
• Update CPD for non-medical prescribing with a specific focus on implications and impact of co morbidities for NMPs
• Networking and Sharing Practice
• Awareness of CPD resources and development

 Participants

All Bart’s Health Non-Medical prescribers

All Bart’s Health staff currently undertaking non-medical prescribing courses

Managers / Clinical team leaders wishing to learn more about non-medical prescribing or considering introduction

Caring for children with tracheostomy or non invasive ventilation

This half day course includes PCA/NCA training, pain guidelines and updates on current pain issues as well as entonox training.

PCA/Epidural knowledge and skills study day - Newham Staff ONLY

PCA and Epidural Workshop (PCA - 9.00-12.00 & Epidural - 13.00-16.00)

Learning Outcomes - 

• Update knowledge and competency
• Promote safe environment
• To deliver highest standard of care

Practical speech therapy skills for paediatric nurses

To provide paediatric nurses will core knowledge and practical skills to support children with feeding, swallowing and communication impairments during hospital admissions.

The new Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA) are commencing from September 2019.

This training is for registered Nurses, Midwives and AHPs that will be supporting any undergraduate learners.

Ready Steady Go and Hello to Adult Services Programme – Roll out

To support with the rollout of the NICE accredited programme

Return to clinical placement Covid-19 Undergraduate Induction

Undergraduate Induction for Medical Students

StatMand Safeguarding Children Training for those needing Level 3 (Face to Face Sessions Only)

In response to the pandemic, changes have been made to the delivery of Safeguarding children level 3 training.  Staff who are required to attend level 3 training will need to complete both the Level 3 safeguarding children e-learning package on the e-Learning for Health site https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/ (approx. 4-5 hours) and the Safeguarding Level 3 Microsoft Teams training package (approx. 3 hours).  Staff will be recorded as compliant once they have sent proof of e-learning training to the safeguarding team and attended the Microsoft Teams training.  Staff are required to complete both elements of the training in a two week time frame. A screen shot of your e-learning certificate should be emailed to: Bartshealth.safeguardingadmin@nhs.net

If you require virtual sessions, please click the following hyperlink and see under "Safeguarding children level 3 - computer based learning (Microsoft teams)"

:https://www.bartshealthacademy.co.uk/statutory-and-mandatory-courses

Spinal Study Day

Increase nurses awareness and knowledge about spinal conditions

Optimise nursing care for patients with spinal conditions

Optimise nursing care in patients with cord injury

Nurses only (All Bands)

We Can Talk Children and Young People Mental Health training

This training has been developed directly in response to the views, experiences and needs of young people and healthcare workers.

It was developed with funding by Health Education England at Barts Health NHS Trust in collaboration with the Common Room, the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) and Healthy Teen Minds.

It has been developed by a partnership between young people and adults with lived experience of mental health difficulties, health care professionals and mental health professionals.

Healthcare workers often report that they feel they lack the knowledge, skills and confidence to support young people with mental health problem.