News

Hi Team Derian, here is your weekly round-up….

 

• Goodbye and good luck to Lizzie Lysons who has now left us due to personal reasons. The search is now on for a new graphic designer to join our comms team and we are delighted with the response so far.  Yesterday, after 13 years at Derian, we waved goodbye to Sue Duckett.  Sue will leave a huge hole in our community offer and we wish her all the best in her new role.

 

• Some of our most loyal donors were treated to afternoon tea and tour of the hospice on Thursday afternoon. It’s really important for us to show our donors where their money goes and they left feeling inspired (and full of Jeff’s delicious cakes).

 

• Our family section of the website is preparing to launch at the end of next week with just a few last minute tweaks needed. The idea is to provide an area for families to find out more details about our services. If anybody wants to have a sneak peek and let the comms team have any feedback that would be much appreciated. The link is derianfamily.co.uk

 

• Our Palliative and End of Life Care Education project has successfully launched and received some wonderful feedback from the professionals who have undertaken the training so far.
• We have 65 sign ups including some internal staff, 3 were rejected though so 62 total. We have 41 active learners who are on the platform and 78 courses have been completed with a total of 25 learning hours.

 

• Over in retail, our Blackburn and Preston shops will be treated to a mini makeover in the coming weeks to make sure our shoppers are getting the best experience.

 

• The Stars and Cars event (14 April) is looking for volunteers. If any staff are interested please get in touch with Mick Croskery. Jobs include setting up the event, stewarding duties and checking tickets. In return you will get fed and watered and get the chance to meet TV stars including Hacker T Dog and Doctor Who’s Sylvester McCoy, and also to see some of the coolest cars from your favourite movies.

 

• Thanks to everyone who took part in our CQC preparation sessions. We’ll have more of these in the coming months to make sure we are all happy and confident of what to do at our next inspection

 

• Thursday also saw another professionals day at Derain, with over 20 colleagues attending the education and learning suite with Keynote speakers throughout the day

 

• We’re well on the way planning our annual Forget Me Not service and we’ll share more about this over the coming weeks.

 

• Thank you to those of you that met with the Leadership Team and Trustees on Monday.  Sadly I was unable to attend after organising the meeting, I understand it was a productive meeting exploring both our current challenges and also thinking about our future cohorts of BCYP.

 

Celebrating birthdays are Shirley, Megan, Natalie and Catherine…..have a wonderful birthday.

 

Have a great weekend everyone,