Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

This half-term our Health on the High Street service at Unit 33 in Friar's Square Shopping Centre in Aylesbury celebrated more than a year of offering the local community easy access to support and advice for their health and wellbeing, including one year health checks for babies, parent and toddler groups, health checks, blood pressure checks, smoking cessation advice and much more.  Unit 33 opened on the 26 September 2023 and since opening 14,000 people have accessed the unit and hundreds of people have had their blood pressure checked or a mini health check. Happy Birthday, Unit 33, and thank you to the local community who use the facility and take control of their own health and wellbeing. Start well, live well, stay well! Find out more about Unit 33 on our website ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eWwfn4-b Buckinghamshire Council NHS Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board

It's been a very productive run-up to the school half-term for our #BrightFuturesAtBHT programme. This week we've: 💡 spoken to two attentive audiences at The Grange School about work experience  💡 met well-prepared and enthusiastic students at Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted, Herts, HP4 3AH during their Careers Expo 💡 had a very positive experience at the Sir William Ramsay School careers fair Thanks to our Deputy Chief Nurse Tina Charlton, Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Matthew Size, Ben Godden and the Resus team, our School Immunisations team, colleagues from Amersham Nursery and of course Schools Engagement for all supporting - and thanks to schools for inviting us! 🙏 Next week we're opening our doors to around 90 sixth-formers on #workexperience to show them a range of roles from #digital and #finance to #radiography and speech & language therapy, #pharmacy to clinical research. A great way to lay the foundations for the #NHSLongTermWorkforcePlan. 🚨 Interested in work experience in the spring term? Students should apply between 20 December to 5 January. More details at https://lnkd.in/e5j4m4pT 🚨 Book onto our free after-school careers talks 5-7pm at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for students in Years 7-13: nursing & midwifery on 14 November and Allied Health Professions on 5 December: https://lnkd.in/edttQ-FM? Health Education England, The Careers & Enterprise Company, Buckinghamshire Skills Hub #NHSjobs #healthcarecareers #healthcareers

📢 VACANCY: Trainee Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technician 🔹 Band 4 🔹 Closing date: 05/11/2024 23:59 Would you like to join the NHS and help provide patients with the best possible care? Have you got an interest in Science, Maths and Medicine? Would you like to be paid whilst studying a college course? If you can answer yes to these questions, then this could be the role for you! We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to undergo a 2-year apprenticeship and once completed become a registered Pharmacy Technician. This is a training role which provides 30 hours on-the-job training and 7.5 hours off-the-job training per week in order to assist you to complete your course. The post is full time and will involve the candidates rotating through specialist sections of the pharmacy department such as Inpatient dispensaries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, High Wycombe Hospital, Procurement & Distribution and Medicines Optimisation/Wards. You will undertake and complete the BTEC level 3 in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians, attending set virtual college classes, developing a work-based e-portfolio, undertaking work-based assessments, and completing assignments within set timescales to a competent standard, alongside working in our busy pharmacy department. You will be supported throughout the training period with regular reviews and appraisals with their Education Supervisor & college tutors. On completion of this qualification will enable you to register with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) at the end of your training placement. More information and to apply ➡ https://lnkd.in/e6m78czt #nhsjobs #nhscareers #nhsrecruitment #pharmacy #pharmacytechnician

Celebrating #AHPsDay #AHPsDay2024! Thank you to all our Allied Health Professionals, for their incredible impact on our communities. Our AHPs in #Bucks got together for their AHP 2024 Conference, with speakers including our AHP Director Mav Ghalley, co-founder of AHP day Rachael Brandreth, Chief AHP NHSE South East Region Sara Bolton, Chief of AHPs for BOB Gemma Donnelly, BOB AHP Workforce Programme Lead Sajida Hanif, AHP Faculty Lead Bucks Health and Social Care Academy Melissa Martin and Exec Sponsor for the AHP Faculty Mary Lovegrove.

Good luck to the team behind our Lipid Optimisation Programme at tonight's NHS Parliamentary Awards! The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony tonight, to which all nominees, their relevant MPs and other key figures will be invited. The ceremony will be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster, London.

Book tickets to 'Discover careers in nursing and midwifery': Thursday 14 November Help us spread the word to young people interested in working in healthcare. Our latest after-school talk is on careers in #nursing and #midwifery, starting with a welcome from our Chief Nurse Karen Bonner MBE. Thanks to education partners Buckinghamshire New University and University of Bedfordshire for also joining. Colleagues will talk about their real-life experiences, explore different career pathways and help career starters explore which role is right for them. Male colleagues also share why these careers are equally a great choice for men. 📆 Thursday 14 November ⏰ 5 - 7pm 📍 Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury 👤 Aimed at secondary school students Year 7 - 13. Welcome to bring a friend or family member. 🔖 Free to attend. See full agenda and book tickets: https://lnkd.in/eDui75n3? 'Discover careers in nursing and midwifery' is part of our #BrightFuturesAtBHT pre-employment programme. The Careers & Enterprise Company, Buckinghamshire Skills Hub, Health Education England, Royal College of Nursing - Company, The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) #NHSjobs #healthcarecareers

Ikhlaq Ahmed, Health Records Stores Assistant at the Trust, had a successful summer of sport representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the European Transplant Sports Championships (ETSC) in Lisbon, Portugal and the British Transplant Games held in Nottingham. These games raise awareness for organ donation and encourage transplant recipients to lead active lifestyles and provide a valuable opportunity to meet and interact with people who have shared experiences. Ikhlaq won gold in pétanque and silver in darts at ETSC and at the British Transplant Games won gold in the 5k race walk event. He has also been selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2025 World Transplant Games in Dresden. Ikhlaq said: “The games are a place where I can open up and talk to people about how I’m feeling and how I’m getting on as there is shared lived experience between us. It’s not about who comes first or who is the best, but the main aim is spreading awareness of organ donation as unfortunately, transplant is not a cure and everyone who has had a transplant may need another one in the future. Taking part at the games is amazing as 10 years ago I would be struggling to walk up the road let alone take part in national and international sporting events.” Read more on our website ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eRQzN_Xh #OrganDonation NHS Blood and Transplant

It's been a busy #OrganDonationWeek across the Trust and at Unit 33 in Friars Square Shopping Centre for our Organ Donation team and volunteers. Thank you to everyone who stopped to chat and find out more and signed up to the register 💗 2 minutes now could save up to 9 lives ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dg3WCiS

Congratulations to Liz Anderson, Lead Nurse for Nutrition at the Trust, who has been awarded the Tracy Hill Patient Champion Award 2024 by national support group PINNT (Patients on Intravenous and Naso-gastric Nutrition Treatment). Carolyn Wheatley, Chair of PINNT said: “Liz always goes the extra mile for her patients, she does it naturally. Care and compassion are part of her DNA and nursing is a wonderful vocation that allows her to make a difference for people in need.” Read more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/esh_WUGu

Happy #WorldPharmacistDay 💊 Pharmacists make a difference to the lives of their patients through an expert knowledge of medicines and health. Find out more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/euJC66x6 Join our BHT family ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e5WmqChP