SMT Roundup – September
- Let’s start off with the most exciting bit… CHRISTMAS! The Christmas do will be held on November 26 at Charnock Farm. David will send an email round with further details and We are Derian staff forum will be collecting ideas for decoration and entertainment! This year we will also have a budget for team building Christmas activities for each team – have a think about what your team would like to do.
- There are no changes to the Government guidance on our COVID protocol as a healthcare setting. However, many people have asked about increasing the number of seats in Danni’s Diner during lunch time. Although this won’t be possible under the current guidelines, we are looking at the idea of introducing staggered lunch times to ensure people don’t have to sit on the floor! This is not ideal and we thank you for your continued patience with this matter.
- There will be work commencing to install EV car charging points in our car park in the near future. Stay tuned for more details of when work will begin.
- Upcoming training includes fire marshal training and mental health first aid. Thanks to everyone who completed the first aid training sessions last month.
- Communication between teams received some negative feedback on our most recent Birdsong survey and so there will be a number of sessions being held to engage everyone to feed into a project to understand the issue and come up with solutions.
- Flu vaccines are coming back! We will be able to offer flu vaccines in-house again this year – dates TBC.
- We will be visiting Culture and Values with staff engagement sessions starting next month, revisiting each letter of our DERIAN values. We are aiming for 100% staff attendance rate to ensure everyone’s views are heard.
- Our Christmas carol extravaganza, Lights of Love, will be returning in 2021. It will take place on Friday, 3 December at Blackburn Cathedral. Tickets are free, but must be booked on our website. Staff can reserve tickets for their family and friends now before we advertise to the wider public.