Resilience, passion, brilliant leadership

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Here’s our latest ESTEEM nominations. To find out more go to the ESTEEM gallery.

Lots of nominations this time for community dietitians at Southern Health and Social Care Trust. Joy Sloan, Anna Boyle and Hayley Reilly along with dietetic support workers, Lydia Watson, Emma Darragh and Rebecca Norris were redeployed as healthcare assistants to the non-acute wards. Donning their PPE and becoming “hands on,” their experience was very different.  Maria Tynan, specialist palliative care dietitian, moved into the home enteral feeding service, Louise Sharpe, advanced practitioner dietitian, and Arleen Watt, dysphagia dietitian, moved into the acute care at home team. They’ve done themselves and the profession proud!

Donna Holland, non-acute dietitian, shielding and working at home was heavily involved in developing the Regional Nutrition Guidance for COVID-19 care home residents. This supported the independent sector to treat and help meet the nutritional needs of their COVID-19 patients.

Cherith Hall, community dietitian, went the extra mile when re-deployed into the acute Daisy Hill hospital while continuing her virtual community caseload. She embraced change and the challenges of PPE and facilitated her first ECHO training video conference on the Regional Nutritional Guidance for Nursing Homes. Cherith is a credit to her profession and the Trust.

Two nominations from Scotland. Gail Nash, AHP practice education coordinator, and the webinar team, NHS Education for Scotland, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Lothian, NHS Shetland created profession-specific webinars to show the practical application of NHS Near Me to help AHPs to run remote virtual clinics. So far over 4,100 people have participated with 3,000 links to recordings.  Near Me consultations rose from around 3,000 to 33,000.

From NHS Lothian, Alison Anderson and the mortuary services team coped brilliantly with the unprecedented challenges of a rising death toll, increased workload, a need to rapidly increase body storage capacity, altered working practices, and the challenges of staff absence. With the University of Edinburgh, they established a COVID-19 post-mortem programme. Congratulations on their professionalism, enthusiasm, hard work and determination to work within the wider clinical and scientific team.

Nicky Wyer and the critical care dietitians supported by Sonal Samani and Rachel Ball at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust developed updated feeding protocols and, working closely with critical care MDT, ensured that new ways of working supported patients and staff. The team developed a rota and a training programme to up-skill dietitians on critical care. The hard work of the whole team ensured that they were ready to manage the peak of admissions. Incredibly adaptable, driven and multi-skilled!

With resilience, passion and brilliant leadership, Justine Theaker, chief AHP, Nightingale North West, Manchester, embraced the challenge to ensure that AHPs had a voice and were involved appropriately, building effective relationships. She worked 7 days a week to ensure AHP teams were set up safely and given necessary support, induction and training.

Neath Children’s Centre paediatric physiotherapy team were redeployed to the Neath inpatient team to support the rehabilitation and supported discharge of patients during the pandemic. Many had been away from the acute setting for a long time. They demonstrated the flexibility and diversity of their skills and were able to adapt their experience of treating children to offer support and skill to the adult team. They are a shining example of skill diversity, flexibility and willingness to step up to support the NHS.

We welcome nominations. Go to https://ahawards,co,uk/esteem/

 

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