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We have a robust Preceptorship programme which supports all newly registered or return to practice health professionals (including AHP’s), including Nursing Associates and Internationally Recruited Professionals
The purpose is to support them into the Trust and to ease them through the transition to autonomous professional.
Watch our webinars below to find out more.
- Making preceptorship meetings effective
- Coaching within preceptorship
- Why you should become a preceptor
- What is the preceptorship programme
- What does an effective preceptorship look like
- Top tips for preceptors
- Useful tools to support preceptors
Definitions
Preceptee – the person who is taking part in the Programme
Meet one of our Preceptees - Shaun Briers
Preceptor – the person who supports the Preceptee
Meet one of our Preceptors - Alan Haddy
Meet the team
Preceptorship Leads
- Nichola Thomason (Operational)
- Lyndsey Ford (Clinical)
Nichola and Lyndsey develop the programme and strategy, deliver the structured sessions and provide pastoral support as identified
Preceptorship Facilitators
- Mental Health Care Division - Nurses/Nurse Associates– Jacqui Fuller
- Secure Care Division - Nurses/Nurse Associates – Emma Wilkinson
- Community Care Division - Nurses/Nurse Associates – Adelia Shaw, Phoebe Dickinson, Eleanor McNicholas
- AHP’s Trust Wide – Jean Clare jean
.clare @merseycare.nhs.uk
The role of the Preceptorship Facilitator is to provide one-to-one support for whatever issues the Preceptee may be having. They also support the completion of the Competency framework which is integral to the Preceptorship Programme
They also promote the use of the (Award winning) phone App which hosts all the information a Preceptee and Preceptor need and can be used to sign off the Competencies.
The attached document is the One Page Profile which provides further detail about the Preceptorship Programme.
If you need any further information or support please do not hesitate to contact jean
Details of a new animation published profiling HEE’s AHP support workforce programme. You Can watch it here
The Trust has made a decision to standardise uniforms across the Trust during 2022 whilst we await the outcome of the National Healthcare Uniform. On Wednesday 9th February we held an engagement session where we shared that white smart scrub tops with a coloured trim and navy trousers with the option of a smart scrub dress have been agreed in line with the National consultation as the standard style for Allied Health Professions (AHP’s). The reasons for standardising our uniform are:
- Enable patients / service users / families / carers to recognise our AHP’s as a priority
- Staff know who is who in busy ward / hub / clinic environments
- Provide AHP’s who have been wearing scrubs or a generic uniform throughout the pandemic with a recognised uniform
- Give AHP’s a professional identity and the option of wearing a uniform the same as other professions
- Standardise the style of uniform we wear across clinical professions to improve professional image
- Standardise the colour ways per profession to avoid confusion across Divisions
- IPC Measures: bare below the elbow and able to wash uniform at 60 degrees
Please take a look at the AHP Uniform Standardisation Presentation to find out more
If you have further feedback or questions please email the generic inbox below with the subject header ‘AHP’ then your Division and Team e.g. ‘AHP Community Dietetics’
uniformstandardisation@merseycare.nhs.uk
In Mersey Care, we run events throughout the year to support our staff with education.
Nutrition and Hydration Week 2024
We ran a series of CPD Sessions, delivered by our Dietitians and Speech and Language Therapists. Click on the below links to review the presentations
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome – An Evaluation of Dietetic Input
- Least Restrictive Practice in Dysphagia
- LPR Laryngopharyngeal Reflux and it’s Impact on the ‘Swallow’
- Patient Led Goal Based Outcomes in Dietetics
- Prescribing Project in South Sefton
- The Role of the Catering Dietitian
- The Use of Accessible Information to Support Weight Loss in Patients with a Learning Disability
- Time as a Student Dietitian in the Mental Health Setting
- Gastrostomy Tube Care
The guide below has been developed to raise the profile and importance of a career conversations and pulls together a range of contemporary resources, tools and guidance for registered and non-registered AHPs and their managers to help facilitate good quality career conversations.