children - West London Mental Health NHS Trust

Congratulations
A number of the trust’s domestic and
portering staff have been awarded
NVQs and Skills for Life. Pictured from the
left is Antonio Navalha (NVQ 2 cleaning
sciences), Rano Ganieva (NVQ 2 cleaning
sciences), Mavis George (NVQ 2 customer
care), Peter Middleton associate director
of estates and facilities who gave out
the certificates, Carlos Mendoza NVQ 2
(cleaning sciences), Amilcar Simoes NVQ
2 (customer care), Samuel Bello (NVQ 2
cleaning sciences) and Louis Stephens NVQ
2 (customer care).
Broadmoor secretaries win team of
the year award. The London directorate
medical secretariat team from Broadmoor
Hospital has been named team of the
year in awards run by the British Society
of Medical Secretaries and Administrators.
The team of seven medical secretaries
was nominated for the award by their
line manager Jacky Glover. She explains, “I
nominated them for the award because
they tirelessly work away in the background
and I would like their efforts to be
recognised by a wider audience and not just
those of us who know how good they are.
“They are highly valued members of the
clinical teams they work for and are a key
factor in the support of the delivery of
patient care. Team members work together
to ensure cover is provided at all times
and quite literally would do anything for
anybody and if they can’t they will find
someone who can.”
Technical Hero
Exchange system
manager, Andy
Burton, received
recognition for his
technical expertise
at the Sorce user
conference last
week. Sorce, who
are the software
providers for the
Exchange, said ‘we’ve taught Andy a few
things and he’s taught us a few as well’ and
presented him with their ‘Technical hero
2008’ award.
Andy and his colleagues in the Exchange
team are continually working to develop
new and improved functions on the trust’s
intranet. If you have any feedback or ideas
regarding current or future developments,
please email Vivienne Mowatt via
GroupWise.
Michelle Nielsen from Hounslow SDU
was short-listed as a finalist in the 2008
NHS Champions Award for her work
with the Hounslow Hawks, service user
football team. The Champions Awards, are
run by the King’s Fund in association with
the Evening Standard and NHS London,
in recognition of exceptional NHS staff
working in and around London.
Michelle said: “I am honoured and delighted
to have been nominated. The football
initiative means so much to me, but more
so to the service users. It has allowed them
to grow in confidence and has given them
the chance to play a positive role within
the community.” Michelle is picture with the
chief executive Simon Crawford.
Staff who received their NVQ 1 certificates
earlier in the year in cleaning sciences are,
Narinder Bansal, Carlos Alberto Bastidos
Mendoza, Garcia Estevao, Gladys Gadzanaki,
Kathleen George, Ricardo Goncalves,
Georgina Gymiah, Deolinda Rosa Marques,
Kalwinder Mehta, Antonio Varela Navalha
and Raj Rani Sidhu.
Jennifer Holmyard, support services
manager said, “The continued training has
given many of the domestic and portering
staff the confidence to move on with their
lives and in their jobs with staff progressing
into nursing positions recently with the
appointments of Rajen Dabee, Martin
Kubecka, Ambeka Chetri and Eric Gohou.
Two other members of the team Abdul
Rahim Dewan and Bibi Bhuttoo have
taken up positions as healthcare assistants.
Supervisors and managers of the domestic
and portering department would like to
wish them well in their new posts.”
Pictured from the left is Maggie Cole, Pat
Rufus, Sandra King, Maggi Branigan, Jenny
Meredith, Emma Collacott and Emma
McGurk.
Pictured is the trust’s most recent group
of preceptees, with head of allied health
professions Gemma Stanion (far left) and
executive director of high secure services
and nursing Grant Macdonald (far right).
This group of new nurses and occupational
therapists has recently completed the trust’s
preceptorship programme.
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