to provide further assistance should it be required. ED Registrar Airway Course » Due to COVID restrictions the Anaesthetic Term for ED registrars has been limited and reduced. In response, the SCSSC is designing and developing an airway program for Emergency Department Registrars to compensate for a shortened anaesthetic term. PEOPLE SYSTEMS AND ANALYTICS » Ongoing weekly COVID Vaccinations Reporting and data verification » Development of the staff exposure tracker which enables the contact tracing teams to have access to the relevant details of the staff that might be classified as close or casual contacts from a patient or staff COVID exposure. » Ensuring deployed staff are correctly paid and the appropriate entitlements are applied based on the new working conditions. » Support the documentation and comms process to staff e.g. distribution of the letters to staff within affected LGAs, as well as reminders to unvaccinated. » The Exemptions tracker was introduced for the local workforce Business Partners to manage the residual population of staff with NSLHD who have yet to be vaccinated against COVID » Reinstatement of and functional upgrades to the free parking application. HEALTH SAFETY AND WELLBEING Injury Management Team » Injury Management have continued to support employees who have contracted COVID within the workplace Employee Assistance Program (EAP) » Individual support to employees during lockdown. » Group support provided specific to pandemic related impact and related organisational issues. » Communication of service to build/ maintain awareness utilised Area Communications, newsletter articles and noticeboard flyers. » Staff Deployment support by regular contact and communications with deployed staff.
quarantining of COVID positive residents. The team also assisted with transfer of patients and health care workers. SYDNEY CLINICAL SKILLS AND SIMULATION CENTRE Systems Testing /COVID Emergency drills » Obstetrics - Systems testing, assessment and development of training material for COVID positive women requiring transfers for emergency C-section. Development of a supporting educational video. » Emergency - Out of hours simulation activity to assess and review the Medical Emergency Response after hours to the radiology department. New Courses » Public Health Conversations for Contract Tracing course designed to meet the needs of newly appointed surge staff to the public health unit. Courses Delivered: 4. 20 total participants. » Currently developing an online training course for new staff commencing in the Virtual Hospital Environments. » COVID-19 Airway Team Training (CATT) - train the trainer model developed and support provided to departments through curriculum, equipment, task trainers and staff. Red Zone Rapid Response Team Training for medical and surgical registrars » Courses Delivered: 4. » An online e-learning package was developed and weekly online educational sessions were facilitated. » Developed and produced trigger videos of common emergencies and patient deterioration to utilise in these interactive online sessions. Advanced Life Support (ALS) Training » The SCSSC team were involved with the development of the updated training video for Protected Code Blue BLS/ALS Guideline due to a change in the guidelines. ICU/Recovery Nurse Up Skilling » The SCSSC has acted in a supportive capacity for the development of ICU Nurse up skilling led by the ICU education team. The SCSSC has provided a venue and equipment for this to occur and is currently on standby
Work Health and Safety Team » Significant number of WFH assessments completed across the District. » Provided advice and partook in assessments regarding WHS issues of COVID vaccination and isolation locations » Ongoing review of Vulnerable Worker Risk Assessment
COVID-19 PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT AND WELLBEING PROJECT » Identification, curation and development of appropriate staff support resources » Psychosocial staff support, information sessions, manager training and provision of targeted webinars and forums to address COVID related staff distress, fatigue, burnout, psychological injury and promotion of Team cohesion, wellbeing, support and resilience. » Developed and piloted the following presentations: COVID-19 Supporting Psychological Health & Wellbeing of NSLHD HCWs and Frontline Teams; Psychological First Aid; Supporting HCWs after sudden unexpected traumatic workplace events/ incidents; Identification of Vicarious Trauma Impacts and Response; Grief at Work; Communication Tips in Times of Stress and Identifying signs of stress and distress and ways to respond. HUMAN RESOURCES BUSINESS PARTNERS Vaccination of Health Care Workers PHO » Human Resources supported employees in the District to ensure compliance with the Public Health (COVID-19 Vaccination of Health Care Workers) Order 2021, requiring that all Healthcare Workers have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine or have been issued with a medical contraindication certificate before 30 September 2021, and have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine before 30 November 2021 » Managed the medical contridication and non- compliance processes for unvaccinated employees » Maintatined regular commubications between NSLHD Executive and relevant Union bodies, including regular
» Ongoing review and support for room space requirements in regards to social distancing
Respiratory Protection Program (RPP) » The WHS unit undertook handover of the RPP as of 20 September 2021 » Recruitment of RPP Lead and Fit Test Assessors » Since 1 September 2021, a total of 1537 workers have been tested. An external contractor was utilised to test 430 of these workers » Total number of staff fitted since Oct 2020 through to 8 November 2021 = 6128 Staff Health Department » Reviewed and treated health care workers with skin reactions from mask wearing » Reviewed and risk managed vulnerable health care workers » Supported vaccine hesitant health care workers with information and assessment » Provide guidance to managers and health care workers about isolation requirements following a close or casual contact Vaccination Compliance Project » Conducted approx. 5825 searches and manually updated over 2000 COVID vaccinations in VaxLink between August and November 2021 Health and Wellbeing » Engagement for events such as RU OK Day, STEPtember and Mental Health Month were moved to virtual facilitation
extrardinary JCC meetings with unions » Provided ongoing workforce advice
THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HARD WORK. IT HAS ALL MADE A HUGE IMPACT.
HERE’S TO 2022! (RIGHT?...)
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