NHS Orkney

A year of further progress for Team Orkney - looking back at 2024! As we near the end of 2024, it’s important that we look back on what has been an incredibly busy year, but one we are especially proud of. By working together, our staff have made so many positive improvements for our patients, our community and our colleagues. We have reached a number of important milestones and achievements that are important to recognise and celebrate. You can read the full piece from Meghan McEwen, Board Chair and Laura Skaife-Knight, Chief Executive on our website via the link here, https://lnkd.in/eYjU7EWs

What a festive week we've had across NHS Orkney! From bell ringing performances, carol concerts and Christmas Jumper Day. And there's only more festive fun to come next week. Please see below a selection of photographs.

NHS Orkney Annual Review – Reconnecting with our community Yesterday, we held our 2024 Annual Review meeting, which presented an opportunity for us to reconnect with our community and share our journey of improvement, our challenges and responses to these and our future plans and ambitions based on what matters to people. We thank those who took the time to come and speak and share their stories of using NHS Orkney services – including following engagement with Age Scotland Orkney, The Blide Trust and Orkney Housing Association. Thank you also to our Clinicians and Union colleagues. The depth and richness of the feedback we have heard added such richness to our Annual Review. Thank you to our patients, community and staff who joined us yesterday to be part of the conversations and to those who submitted questions ahead of the day and asked questions on the day. ➡️ View the full recording of the Annual Review - https://lnkd.in/ekiCD2nA ➡️ View the Annual Review presentation slides - https://lnkd.in/enJsYTSy ➡️ View the full set of Questions and Answers from the Annual Review - https://lnkd.in/e7p5SSET You can read more about the event itself here, https://lnkd.in/edZ2MUA7

Are you a strategic and ambitious transformational leader with a passion for delivering exceptional care and services? NHS Orkney is looking for an excellent visible and compassionate individual to join our Board and help lead us into our exciting future. NHS Orkney serves the vibrant and close-knit community of Orkney, and we have 800 staff across our community, primary and secondary care services. We are on an exciting journey of improvement. Our Promise (vision) is: Looking after our community and providing excellent care. Our recently published Corporate Strategy - called “Delivering what matters to our community: 2024-2028" is our compass at NHS Orkney and sets out our priorities. Find out more here - https://lnkd.in/dGwpJ65W #NHSCareers #NHSScotland #NHSScotlandCareers

Our next NHS Orkney Board Meeting will be held on Thursday 12 December at 9.30am. All the information, including how to join the meeting, will be available here, https://lnkd.in/eMSNG586

NHS Orkney is hiring a Director of Performance & Transformation (and Deputy Chief Executive) to drive strategic change and lead our “Team Orkney: Improving Together” programme. This is a Band 9, fixed-term for 18 months position based in the beautiful Orkney Islands, ideal for an experienced leader passionate about healthcare innovation and community impact. https://lnkd.in/dGwpJ65W

NHS Orkney secures two National Awards Last week, the prestigious Scotland Health Awards were held in Edinburgh at a dazzling awards ceremony to celebrate the outstanding work and commitment colleagues across the Health and Social Care network show to our patients and communities across Scotland. We firstly want to recognise our three finalists, Anne Gregg, Macmillan Specialist Nurse and Amanda Manson, Cardiology Specialist Nurse, who were both nominated for Nurse of the Year Award and Melissa Lindsay, Midwife and Sonographer, who was nominated for Midwife of the Year Award. We were so incredibly proud when we heard Melissa win Midwife of the Year and, Anne win Nurse of the Year! The Nurse Award is ‘for an individual nurse providing excellent NHS nursing care for people in Scotland. It recognises the high quality and compassionate NHS nursing care that an individual nurse has provided for people in Scotland.’ Well done Anne. And the Midwife Award is ‘for an individual midwife providing excellent care, evidenced-based NHS maternity services/care in Scotland, who is providing high quality compassionate care for women and babies in Scotland.’ What an achievement Melissa. Sam Thomas, Executive Director of Nursing, Midwifery, AHP’s and Chief Officer Acute at NHS Orkney said: “I truly couldn’t be prouder of all three NHS Orkney finalists at this year’s awards. When I heard both the Nurse of the Year and the Midwife of the Year awarded I was genuinely delighted. I’d like to once again congratulate Amanda, Anne and Melissa, you’ve done yourselves and NHS Orkney proud. Finally, I wish to extend my congratulations to all finalists across all the categories and the very worthy winners.”

Return to Practice Programme – Nursing NHS Orkney is encouraging anyone who has let their nursing registration lapse and interested in returning to practice to attend an upcoming meeting about what’s available. The return to practice programme for nurses involves a short course to prepare for re-joining the NMC register and enables nurses to return to their field of practice in a safe and confident manner. The course can be completed via a full or part-time route and hours are negotiated depending on length of lapse of registration. Funding is also available to undertake the programme. Georgie Green, Practice Educator at NHS Orkney said: “This is an excellent opportunity for qualified nurses to return to practice. If you still have a passion for nursing and would love to return we would love to support you. We have opportunities in varied roles so please join the virtual event or get in touch for more information.” If you’re interested and want to hear more, you can join the information session on Wednesday 13 November from 6pm – 8pm. The session will be held via MS Teams and the link for joining can be found here, https://lnkd.in/e4Y-bYct If you want to speak to Georgie about the programme or the information session itself, you can contact her by emailing [email protected].

NHS Orkney Annual Review – Reconnecting with our Community – Agenda Our NHS Orkney Annual Review will take place on Tuesday 3 December from 12pm – 2pm both in-person at The Balfour and virtually via MS Teams. We are pleased to share the agenda for the session, which has a clear theme and focus: ‘reconnecting with you, our, community.’ We will hear from our Board Chair, Chief Executive, Executive Directors and wider Board members who are responsible for the care and services you receive. We will share an update on our progress and achievements over the last year and our plans and priorities for the year ahead, based on what matters to you. If you’d like to join, please come along to The Balfour on Tuesday 3 December or, join via MS Teams, the link can be found here, https://lnkd.in/eBNrhCer. Alternatively, you can watch the session at a time that suits yourself as it will be recorded and shared after the event on our website. We continue to encourage everyone to keep submitting questions which will be answered in our dedicated “question and answer” space as noted on the agenda (below). You can submit questions by emailing [email protected] or by calling 01856 888197.

NHS Orkney are currently recruiting an experienced BSE accredited Echocardiographer/ Cardiac Physiologist, primarily to provide an echo service but additional cardiac physiology skills would be welcomed. The post holder would work closely with the Cardiology Nursing team, Cardiologist and NHS Grampian in delivering both inpatient and outpatient services. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eJ5UNWUr #NHSCareers #NHSScotlandCareers