AH ANNUAL REPORT 2018
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Improvements<br />
• Continued long term secondment agreement (5<br />
years) for the Consultant LD nurse post<br />
• Formation of LD/ASC liaison team which will include<br />
- Full time LD liaison nurse<br />
- Part-time play specialist<br />
- Part-time admin support<br />
- Part-time LD nurse contribution (across site,<br />
released from clinical areas) to team<br />
• 4 LD nurse appointments within the Trust across<br />
clinical areas<br />
• Established Learning Disability and Autistic Spectrum<br />
Condition Steering Group<br />
• Established parent and child reference groups<br />
to support steering group and trust consultation<br />
(Millstead, Bank View and Redbridge schools)<br />
• Established partnerships with voluntary and<br />
independent sector organisations e.g. Contact a<br />
Family, Autism Together<br />
• Ongoing participation in CCG hosted Liverpool Acute<br />
Liaison Network<br />
• Mandatory training LD awareness e-learning pack<br />
rolled out<br />
• Ongoing training – e.g. Learning disability and ASC<br />
awareness via induction training for all volunteers and<br />
nurses that is the pan-Liverpool LD health training<br />
pack (used in all acute sites in Liverpool – developed<br />
with Liverpool Mencap as part of the Liverpool Acute<br />
Liaison Network)<br />
• Ongoing risk assessment/ mental health first aid and<br />
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) training across the<br />
trust (rolling programme available to all areas)<br />
• Ongoing autism awareness training for all staff<br />
provided by Autism Together<br />
• Developed LD indicator for easy LD identification on<br />
Meditech (Trust wide computer system)<br />
• Developed ‘LD champions’ training and new<br />
champions identified<br />
• Developed LD resource pack and pilot in clinical<br />
areas - including pathways<br />
• Pilot of hospital passport/ risk assessment and<br />
reasonable adjustment tools as per Liverpool acute<br />
liaison Network strategy<br />
• Developed academic and practice links across Edge<br />
Hill University and Alder Hey children’s hospital to<br />
support student journey/experiences and ultimately<br />
recruitment for the Trust.<br />
Future Plans<br />
• Continued development of the five day acute liaison<br />
service across site (LD nurse workload model and<br />
supervision)<br />
• Trust strategy to have an LD trained nurse on every<br />
ward. Further recruitment planned<br />
• Continued development of LD/ASC steering group<br />
and parent/ child reference groups<br />
• Development of Alder Hey information pack for<br />
children and families with LD/ASC in conjunction with<br />
Liverpool network<br />
• Continued roll out of hospital passport, a one page<br />
profile, communication passport<br />
• Continued attendance and benchmarking across<br />
Liverpool acute network and nationally re best<br />
practice<br />
• Further implementation of risk assessment and<br />
reasonable adjustment tools across the Trust<br />
• Continued rolling programme of training across all<br />
clinical areas - bespoke training planned for clinical<br />
areas where requested<br />
• Implementation of toy library proposals - across site<br />
access to sensory and specialist toys for all children<br />
with LD and additional sensory needs<br />
• Continue development of LD champions and<br />
resources<br />
• Continue to support clinical areas in the development<br />
of specific pathways for children with LD/ASC<br />
• Improve external communication with families e.g.<br />
through electronic/media etc.<br />
• Develop further the use and availability of<br />
communication tools across areas to increase staff<br />
awareness.<br />
• Continued identification of research streams and<br />
dissemination of best practice across professional<br />
networks e.g. LD Consultant Nurse Network ,<br />
Learning Disability Research Network.<br />
3.3.13 Nurse Staffing<br />
Aims:<br />
• To have zero nursing vacancies.<br />
• To sustain a Nurse Pool to cover maternity leave<br />
and long term sick cover and fill ward/department<br />
vacancies.<br />
• To have a proactive recruitment campaign.<br />
• To have a nursing workforce who have the right<br />
skills and receive the right training for the job.<br />
Changes or deficiencies in the nursing workforce can<br />
have a detrimental impact on the quality of care. Patient<br />
outcomes, and particularly safety, are improved when<br />
organisations have the right people, with the right skills,<br />
in the right place at the right time.<br />
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Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18