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

To build upon knowledge and skills required to manage acute deterioration in adult patients. Participants are senior nursing staff (Bands 6-7) and are encouraged to employ leadership and active followership skills during the management of the unwell patient. This is a 2 day course with a summative OSCE for course assessment.

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

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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

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.

Corporate Induction (COVID19)

This session is to induct new starters to the Trust during the current pandemic.

This will include Nurses, HCA's, Doctors, Midwives and AHPs.

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 programme is aimed at developing our Band 6 nursing, midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) colleagues and has been designed based on the feedback received from staff and management in clinical areas across Barts Health. The programme has been mapped against the nine domains of NHS Leadership Academy’s Health Care Leadership Model and has a strong focus in the Trust’s expectations of fulfilling the Bands 6 nursing, midwifery and AHP role

The higher development 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 behaviors 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.

This module invites you to consider how well you are able to think critically and evaluate options in everyday situations that you face in the work place. You are invited to consider the habits of critical thinkers and how critical thinking was used effectively in challenging situations. It includes a range of activities and scenarios in order to develop your ability to think critically.

You are invited to consider what emotional intelligence is and isn't. This includes critically exploring the work of Goleman and Joshua Friedman, evaluating the roles of trust and rapport in developing team emotional effectiveness, active listening and resilience.

Accountability is considered from a personal perspective and participants are challenged to consider their role in holding others to account whilst continuing to lead with compassion. It introduce the use of coaching models to facilitate discussions with team members and considers the importance of recognition.

Explore your Leadership styles and the importance of taking care of yourself as a leader. This module combines discussion with a series interactive activities and self assessment activities to help you understand the qualities of a leader.

This module gives you the opportunity to explore the clinical leaders key role in ensuring high levels of quality in the delivery of care. The module uses a mix of role play, scenarios, discussion and presentations to consider the challenges of organising care, monitoring standards and addressing poor standards. A range of tools are introduced to participants.

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

Revalidation is the process that all nurses and midwives in the UK and nursing associates in England will need to follow to maintain their registration with the NMC.

Please contact your local Nurse Education Team if you wish to participate in Revalidation - they will be organised on a bespoke basis.

https://weshare.bartshealth.nhs.uk/adult-nursing-midwifery-and-ahp-education

NON MEDICAL PRESCRIBER FORUM

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

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

Paediatric Winter Illness study day inc. CPAP and Humidified High Flow Therapy (HHFT)

• To provide a baseline or refresher for staff on common winter illnesses in paediatric patients
• To reinforce the structured systematic assessment approach to nursing
• To highlight respiratory infection prevention and control measures over the winter period
• To enable staff to refresh themselves on key pieces of equipment used primarily in the winter period.

This half day workshop will enable delegates to develop appropriate Moving and Handling techniques for themselves and the patient following a patient fall. Delegates will also have the opportunity to review their clinical post fall care in a simulation area.

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.

This training is for registered Nurses and Midwives that have been a Practice Supervisor for more than six months and will be supporting any undergraduate student nurse.

Please note: you must complete all e-learning sections via the Barts Health moodle page. Please bring the certificates of completion to the face-to-face session.

Principles of Cancer Care

Your participation on this three-day course will improve your knowledge and understanding of cancer, enabling you to care for and communicate more effectively and confidently with cancer patients.

This course is for practitioners who are working in general settings, including community and hospices, who meet patients being investigated, diagnosed and treated for cancer.

Risk Assessment and Incident Management training

1 hour presentation taking delegates through legislative requirements, what is deemed suitable and sufficient, and what to do when risk assessments have been written. How to ensure correct details of incidents are recorded

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.