STEPtember
Staff Spotlight Name: Nina Trimboli Position Title: Health Management Graduate Team: Graduate Health Management Program, NSLHD
fundraisers at each site and Fitness Passport provided 3 months of membership for the NSLHD highest stepper. Incentive giveaways to encourage participation such as eco- friendly reusable cutlery sets and mobile phone wallet cards were well received. People and Culture held a total funds raised guessing competition. Sam Cairns, NUM Vaccination Compliance Project, was the winner with a very close guess of $81,564. Sam won a box of goodies supplied by the Health and Wellbeing team.
NSLHD raised $81,445 during STEPtember and took almost 172 million steps. Collectively, NSW Health raised over $287,000 in 2021. This placed NSLHD as the highest fundraising Local Health District, 21st place in Australia for fundraising and 20th for stepping. NSLHD had 614 participants and 170 teams register for the challenge. A virtual ‘Thank You’ presentation was held on 1st November. Certificates and prizes were presented to the winners. Smartsalary provided 16 smart watches for the highest
Welcome to Nina who commenced a 3 month placement with People & Culture at the end of November. Nina has already completed a placement with the Chief Executive, and most recently in the Ryde Hospital Executive Unit.
What would you do for a career if you weren’t doing this? I think I would open a restuaurant. If you could meet anyone, living or dead, who would you meet? Yotam Ottolenghi. If you won the lottery, what is one of the first things you would do? Travel or buy a house!
What are you currently watching on Netflix? Christmas movies (including Love Actually of course). What are you passionate about? Travel, cooking and eating out. Pineapple on pizza. Agree or disagree? Disagree. What are some of your pet peeves? Aggressive drivers.
What job did you have prior to working at NSLHD? What was interesting or unusual about this role? Before starting on the Graduate Program, I was working as Physiotherapist in a Perth Hospital. I was mainly based on the Orthopaedic and Maternity Wards, which provided an interesting mix of patients. When you have 30 minutes of free-time, how do you spend the time? I go for a run or get some
fresh air. What’s your favourite travel destination? Hard to look past Japan, especially in winter on the ski slopes. What’s the last book you read? I just finished Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - definitely puts life into perspective. What’s your favourite movie? Life is Beautiful has been a favourite since I was young.
Huge Year for Employee Services
Above: Damian Percy, Business Manager Cerebral Palsy Alliance, presented at the virtual thank you ceremony
Above: Deb Williams, Health and Wellbeing Consultant, was acknowledged during the virtual thank you presentation
The team welcomed 2021 with an internal restructure to the service. They were then put to the test during the COVID escalation due to increased demand for workforce across the District. Despite increase in workload, service KPIs have improved. 2021 Statistics • 3845 Audit/Checks Completed
• 634 New Positions Created • 152 Cost Centres Created
THE ODAC TEAM GETTING THEIR STEPS IN
• 5 Restructures Processed and 5 for completion before the end of 2021
15% ATF submission increase compared to 2020 15% Audit/Checks increase compared to 2020
• 3868 ATF Submissions • 6053 eForms Processed • 3435 Leave Forms
Jane Millar, Professional Development Manager
Zanule Dube, Education Consultatnt
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