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Happy Friday Team Derian…. & Happy New Year!

 

Here’s your first weekly news update of 2024….

 

Firstly, let’s celebrate birthdays.  Celebrating their birthdays earlier this week we’ve had Kim and Fran, hope you’ve both had wonderful birthdays, and celebrating this coming week are Rosie, Faye and Jen. Enjoy!

 

• Kirsty and the Education Team have been successful in securing an online platform to host the Palliative and end of life care education project content. We have sent the modules over to the developers and are very excited to see how all of our hard works looks! The content will include key areas for your practice in a hospice including grief and bereavement, compassionate communication skills, symptom management and more. We are hoping that it will be live by March 2024, and once live you’ll be able to access the content at any time.
• This week we’ve doubled our HR team, as we welcomed Louise Bamber to support Kim with implementing our new strategic aims for being an employer of choice.
• We’re continuing to develop a great relationship with our friends over at CQC, Catherine is now officially our Registered Manager and we’re making a few changes to our registration details and updating our Statement of Purpose. We’re really keen to ensure everyone within the organisation is confident in the role of CQC and so we’re developing a briefing document about the new framework and also a helpful one-page guide on how we’ll respond should we get an unexpected visit at any point.
• We’ve been in the news 325 times in 2023 including stories on BBC News, in the Independent newspaper and even on Newsround – well done for all your hard work that has made us so newsworthy.  This really helps with our profile, reputation and funding.
• We’re making the final plans for our HUGE recruitment drive.  We’re hoping to attract a number of registered and non-registered staff in to the Integrated Care Team.  We will also be advertising a new exciting role, a Family Advocate/Engagement Lead.  This role will have autonomy across the organisation and will ensure that families are at the heart of all decision making.  If anyone want to chat about the role, please do come and grab me.
• And finally, for this week, we’re looking to relocate our Chorley shop.  We’re keen to have a flagship store in our hometown and so the search is on for a bigger store – we’ll keep you updated!

 

That’s about it for now, have a lovely weekend everyone

 

Best wishes   Karen   Karen Edwards OBE Chief Executive Officer   Please note, I am sending this email now as it suits my work pattern, which may not match yours.