Category: Education & Training

Lunch and Learn

Strategy

Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session this week. Our guest speaker, Paul Bibby , Head of Strategy and Business Planning, gave us a very interesting insight into strategy development.

If you missed the session, you can watch the session recording here (please use your LSCFT email to access) or view the presentation slides here.

We would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com

Our next session will be held in July and will focus on Sustainability and Environmental Changes . We hope to see you there. Please contact carmel.smith@lscft.nhs.uk if you would like an invite to this session.

Royal Marsden Manual Online

New Student Companion Site now available

The new Student Companion site is now available as part of our online subscription to the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. The site gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the manual.

There are plenty of exciting learning tools for student nurses to help test and grow their knowledge such as:

  • “Drag and Drop” Sequencing Exercises- Drag and drop the steps of key following clinical procedures into the correct order to test their knowledge and understanding
  • Label the Diagram
  • Full Glossary- Find out the definition of some of those key terms
  • Question and Answers for each Chapter
  • Additional Reading- learn what other Nursing products Wiley has to offer which can support their development

Lunch and Learn

Long Covid

Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session yesterday. Our guest speakers, Jane Beenstock, Alison Pye and Cath Taylor from the Public Health team, have been following the development and research relating to Long Covid and they gave us a very interesting insight into what Long Covid is and what the research around this topic is telling us.

If you missed the session, you can catch up here (please use your LSCFT email to access.)

We would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com

Our next session will be held in June and will focus on Strategy Development . We hope to see as many of you there. Please contact carmel.smith@lscft.nhs.uk if you would like an invite to this session.

Lunch and learn – April Reminder

Health Literacy Awareness Session

This is just a reminder that the next Lunch and Learn session will be held via Teams on Thursday 29th April between 12pm and 1pm.

This session will discuss:

  • What health literacy awareness is and how it might impact on everyday practice
  • Issues surrounding this topic when working with patients
  • What low health literacy looks and feels like
  • The impact of low health literacy on individuals’ everyday lives and on the services that support them
  • Tools and techniques you can use in practice to overcome these issues

As the session may discuss personal reflections or examples from practice, we will not be recording the April session.

Teams invites have been sent to all our Library registered users. If you would like an invite to be extended to you or you team please email: katie.roper@lscft.nhs.uk

King’s Fund Event

What have we learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic?

This virtual conference, will take a look at how people working in health and care have been working remotely, flexibly and in an agile way to meet the demands created by the pandemic and to develop new and improved ways of working for the future.

Sessions take place over 4 half days between the 7-10 June 2021.

To find out more or book your tickets click here.

Lunch and Learn

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session last week. Our guest speaker Sam Tyrer discussed his own experiences of living with mental health issues and how this influenced his reasons for working for the NHS. He also shared about how he wants his work to influence the outcomes of children and young people and is a fantastic advocate for raising awareness of mental health, the stigma that comes with this and raised some issues that young people are currently facing. Sam shared some really useful guidance for working with young people – or your own children and discussed some useful strategies to apply to cope with your own anxiety or mental health worries.

If you missed the session, you can catch up here: https://nwsis-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/katie_roper_lscft_nhs_uk/EepmXm6Rm1FFv4-D18jcKq8Bb_h1962q4ll1CENkJoUoSg (please use your LSCFT email to access.)

We would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete:https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WLHBMSG

You can also follow Sam’s work via his mental health hour: Mental Health Family Hour – YouTube

Our next session will be held in April and will focus on health literacy awareness. We hope to see as many of you there. Please contact katie.roper@lscft.nhs.uk if you would like an invite to this session.

King’s Fund Free Event

What’s in store for health and care in 2021?

This free online event, taking place Thursday 28th January 2021 (10am -11am), will provide insight into the wider UK health and care landscape in 2021 and will explore how recent trends, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and future developments could affect people working in the sector, patients and the wider population. 
 
Their speakers will discuss some of the big issues that we hope to see progress on in 2021, including health and care staff wellbeing, social care reform, population health and health inequalities, and legislative changes to support the integration agenda.

To register for a place click here.

Living and working with complexity

Thinking clearly, acting wisely and staying healthy

The uncertainty and anxiety that come with the experience of complexity can be overwhelming. It can be hard to think clearly and act wisely, and our wellbeing can easily suffer. The Covid-19 pandemic has made these experiences an everyday occurrence for many people, and the need for us to work clearly, wisely and healthily has never been more pressing.

The King’s Fund have put together 3 workshops to lift the lid on complexity. They’ll explore how encouraging ourselves and others to understand and acknowledge the loss of control when faced with complexity can help us, our teams and our wider organisational systems survive and even thrive in conditions of uncertainty. 

The workshops will help you:

  • make sense of the messy reality of complexity, accurately categorise different aspects of that reality and be able to choose appropriate, measured, responses
  • understand your own preferences and strengths in relation to the complexity around you and develop strategies to stretch beyond them
  • help yourself and others be their best during uncertain times.

To find out more or buy your tickets click here.

Free online event

Courage of compassion : transforming nurses’ and midwives’ working environments to enable them to flourish

Following the release of the Kings Fund report on The courage of compassion last month, they are providing a  free online event on 3 December in partnership with the RCN Foundation. Their panel will discuss how we can better support nurses and midwives to flourish at work and to provide compassionate care in a sustainable way.

To book your place click here.

Virtual conference

Leading beyond Covid

The virtual conference, taking place between 23rd-26th November 2020, will share practical ideas about transforming work and workplace cultures. It will explore how leadership and teamworking influences people’s work experiences, releasing their full potential to drive improved outcomes for patients and citizens.

There will also be the opportunity to discuss how to create compassionate cultures with other local health and care leaders.

To find out more or book a place click here.