midwife named top Mentor Starting any new career can be daunting, which is why mentors like Ellie Taylor are important. For Ellie, supporting her soon-to-be colleagues has always been an enjoyable experience, and she offered a couple of tips to those
Ellie Taylor
The newly crowned UTS Midwifery Mentor of the Year is the third RNSH midwife to scoop the award in the past three years. “Being a mentor is something that everybody in our team does,” she said. “One of our team members won this award last year, and another won it the year before so obviously we are doing something right. “It’s a really nice recognition (to win this award) because all the midwives do this work every day with the students and we’re all walking alongside them; it’s great that the students nominate us.”
looking to become a mentor. “Do it; do it generously and do it cheerfully,” Ellie said. “Since I’ve been working, I’ve loved working with students. I think it’s really important students work with enthusiastic midwives – I’m glad that I can do that for them.” Ellie might have claimed top billing, but seven other NSLHD midwives were also awarded Certification of Nomination. Congratulations to Amanda Liddell, Noni Joyce, June Payne, Kelsea Wills, Krista Gibson, Elise Matthews and Zoe Streatfeild on their nomination.
give a compliment this festive season It’s been a bumper year for the People and Culture Directorate, with the successful launch of Speaking up for Safety and the NSLHD Compliments Portal.
Health Learning and on the intranet, and I would like to encourage all staff to sign up to be part of the culture change.” Christine also encouraged staff to spread the cheer these holidays by sending a colleague a compliment through the Compliment Portal. “When reflecting on the year and all we have achieved, I’m sure we can all think of someone who has helped us, so why not send them a compliment to say thank you?” she said. More than 1000 compliments have been sent across NSLHD since portal launched in July 2019. “It’s just another little way of rewarding colleagues for the amazing work that they do every day,” Christine said. The compliment portal can be found in the quicklinks sections of the intranet home page.
Speaking up for Safety (SUFS) encourages all staff - clinical and non-clinical – to support each other to speak up about safety and quality at any time. Organisational Development and Talent Manager Christine Tait Lees said SUFS has gone from strength to strength and will be rolled out further in the New Year. “We now have more than 1600 people trained in SUFS; this is a fantastic start,” she said. “Thank you to those who have supported the program to date. Mona Vale and Ryde hospitals are on the journey with their trainers completing training in November to launch in early 2020. “Those training dates will be published in My
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