Useful information for the induction programme
Any queries about the programme email HCSW@hhft.nhs.uk.
Contact with your ward/department [Bank staff will need to contact the bank team]
Contact your ward as soon as possible to discuss:
- uniform ordering and I.T logs:
- your rota (shift pattern)
- To ensure your Supernumerary days are rostered as short days (7.5hrs shifts) and NOT long days (12 hrs shifts)
It is the wards responsibility to arrange these, this cannot be done by the teams delivering the induction programme.
Please check your e-mail in box including the spam/junk mailboxes regularly for communications from your ward.
Venues and Parking
Days for the programme are located both in Winchester and Basingstoke. Parking can be a challenge in both areas.
Winchester
Parking is extremely limited the best and cheapest option is to use the Winchester Park and Ride service.
You will not be allowed to access the public parking level of the multistorey car park for attending training – even if you are prepared to pay or already have a hospital parking permit.
Basingstoke
There is no parking available on the Millenium/Vickers house sites.
If you already have a hospital permit, you can access the staff parking areas or you can park in the hospitals visitor’s payment car park, these are a short walk away from Millenium/Vickers house.
Shuttle Bus
There is a free shuttle bus that runs hourly between the Winchester and Basingstoke hospital sites and places are on first come first serve basis.
Please bring a pen and notebook to the training days: This workbook has been designed to be printed off for use throughout the programme.
Please be on time at the start of the day, returning from breaks and if attending any other training sessions as part of the programme. The days have been designed to run in a certain order and to cover information relevant for the HCSW role being late means you will miss content from the day and is disruptive to the running of the session.
Introduction
Welcome to your role as a health Care support worker at HHFT.
The induction programme is a ten-day programme which is a mix of education sessions delivered by different training and clinical teams and time on the wards where you will be working alongside a colleague to help you prepare for the role.
The educational sessions will cover.
- Manual handling and Basic Life Support (resuscitation) skills
- Understanding and taking observations
- Early National Warning Score and identifying the deteriorating patient.
- Dementia care
- End of life care
- Diabetes care
- Fundamentals of care
- Health care support worker: Roles and responsibilities
- Time with the therapy teams
The sessions are designed to introduce you to generic areas of healthcare that you may encounter in any ward or department.
Where there is a higher need for more role specific training that cannot be covered in depth on the induction programme, this will be delivered by the ward/department when you have commenced your role. Examples of this would be Emergency departments, theatres, and dementia wards
What you should know ?
You should have the workbook which provides information about the program and an overview of the traniining session
The Induction program is over a period of 10 days, 5 days in class, 5 days on the ward.
Your Supernumerary days should be rostered as short days (7.5hrs shifts) and NOT long days (12 hrs shifts).
Introduction
Welcome to your role as a health care support worker at HHFT- Bank Staff.
The induction programme is a three - day programme which is a mix of education sessions delivered by different training and clinical teams. Time on the ward would be allocated by the Bank Team.
The first section is allocated for E-learning, where all courses on green brain must be completed before the Face-Face induction begins.
The Second and third section are educational sessions which covers;
- Manual handling and Basic Life Support (resuscitation) skills
- Understanding and taking observations, National Early Warning Score and identifying the deteriorating patient.
The sessions are designed to introduce you to generic areas of healthcare that you may encounter in any ward or department.
Where there is a higher need for more role specific training that cannot be covered in depth on the induction programme, this will be delivered by the ward/department when you have commenced your role. Examples of this would be Emergency departments, theatres, and dementia wards.
What you should know?
The Bank team will :
- Allocate you 2 shadow shifts once the recruitment process has been completed
- Arrange your ID Badge /uniform
- Loop allocate App [Used for Rota and shift management] can be set once you have worked your first shift and have your pay roll assignment number
Useful contacts:
Charlotte Pocock- clinical Bank Admin & Recruitment
Eileen Rudge- Rostering, Uniform / ID & Shadow Shifts (x2)
Juanita Rogers - clinical lead
Telephone: Monday to Sunday 8am -7pm:
01256 314949 or 01256 314948
Email: nursebank@hhft.nhs.uk
