We’re creating a series of articles to introduce you to a range of colleagues, showing how our varied teams and colleagues work and fit into the way DHU approaches patient care.
Here, we shine the spotlight on Sarah Goodwin. Sarah, one of our Clinical Mandatory Trainers, is part of our training team supporting colleagues to develop within their roles.
Sarah comes to DHU with a long background of working in nursing, particularly within the community, as a health visitor and school vaccinator. Moving away from patient facing nursing, Sarah has built up wealth of experience within the corporate function before joining DHU Healthcare.
Sarah said: “I’m thankful for the experience I developed prior to joining DHU, but I wanted to move on to a different organisation to challenge myself. I wanted to get out there and work with staff in a staff-focused role and when I saw the training position at DHU I knew it was the best way to continue my development.”
“What makes DHU stand out is how well managed and clinician-led the organisation is. The culture here is very different to other Trusts and people have been so welcoming since I started. It’s a place where you are listened to and trusted as well as being given the opportunity to develop within your role.
“In our team we organise and plan clinical training sessions across DHU. We will provide mandatory training and work with other colleagues to provide this, and offer a wide-range of clinical skills to colleagues such as wound care, ECG, cannulation and phlebotomy. As well as Recognising unwell Adult and Child, and offer Customer Care skills.
“We try to be as flexible as possible as to when and where the training sessions take place. Availability is difficult for people, so many sessions are done virtually and also outside of people’s standard working hours. DHU has a diverse workforce and how we deliver the sessions can be tailored around this. So, for example, if there is an admin receptionist on a ‘recognising an unwell child’ session we would adjust the course to train them on how to triage over the telephone.
“As a team we adapted quickly to working digitally throughout the pandemic. The non-clinical sessions can be done anywhere and this has saved learner’s time and money travelling between bases. However, there will always be a need for face to face clinical training and we are all aware of how challenging this has been over the last few years.
“Now restrictions are being lifted, we have the opportunity to expand on how many people we can have in each session. We’re ready to highlight what the training team can offer, so keep a look out for pop-up sessions, workshops and regular e-bulletin updates.”
The training team are available to support you with your development, if you have any questions at all then email them at Mandatory.Team@DHUHealthCare.nhs.uk.
For upcoming courses and news check out their monthly Training & Development Bulletin featuring a calendar of upcoming courses.
Thanks to Sarah for telling us about her role and keep your eyes peeled for DHU’s next #WhatDoYouDo.
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