Dear SAS colleague,
We extend a warm welcome to you in your new role as a Specialty Doctor/Specialty Dentist in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde!
We are a team of three NES SAS Education Advisors in GG&C. Once notified by HR of your appointment, one of us will make personal contact as your designated advisor. You will be added to our SAS contact list and we will share relevant information pertaining to education, training and SAS development funding opportunities. We can offer guidance on career development, job planning and appraisal. We are also a point of support for your wellbeing.
There are approximately 1300 SAS grade doctors and dentists working in NHS Scotland. They make up about 25% of the senior medical workforce. Many are working in various specialties across GG&C, so please reach out – we would all like to meet you. By now, you will have had induction pertaining to your clinical role. Here, we summarise information on local contacts and links relevant to our SAS workforce.
NHSGGC SAS Education Advisors
Local BMA SAS Representatives
Contact for Occupational Health
Whistleblowing Details
Health Board Appraisal Lead
HR Manager, Job Planning
Other useful local links
Here is a helpful guide for people new to the SAS grade: Guidance for SAS Doctors and Dentists (nhs.scot). An induction checklist for SAS can be accessed here: nesd1227-sas-induction-checklist.pdf (nhs.scot)
We have lots of resources on the Scotland Deanery website about our SAS Development Programme including details on SAS Development Fund Application Process | Scotland Deanery (nhs.scot), which is over and above your entitlement to regular study leave funding. This may assist you to develop new or improved clinical services, or to enhance your role within your clinical team. It can also be used for short term top up training for CESR.
We encourage that you consider taking up associate membership with your relevant specialty Royal College and sign up for e-Portfolio, as do trainees in your specialty. This will enable you to record your training experience prospectively, allow procedural training to be listed and signed off and help plan your training needs. By collecting the data as you go along, you will be in a good position to re-join formal training or consider future specialist registration status from a SAS post (CESR), should you so wish. If you are pursuing CESR, you can join our NES CESR Peer Support group via MS Teams which features regular webinars by SAS who have achieved CESR.
We wish you every success and happiness in your new role and look forward to meeting you at our local meetings, SAS webinars and education sessions!
Mun, Linda and Gary
Dr Mun Woo – Associate Specialist, Renal and Transplant Services, Inverclyde Royal Hospital, GGC Training Lead / ADME (SAS)
Dr Linda Stephen – Associate Specialist, Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Unit, West of Glasgow ACH-Yorkhill
Dr Gary Manson – Staff Grade, Accident and Emergency, Royal Alexandra Hospital
If you feel we should include anything please let us know: medicaleducation@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Contact Telephone Number
- Call Reception: 0141 211 8580
Contact Email Address
- Gartnavel General Hospital: 0141 211 3171
- Glasgow Dental Hospital: 0141 211 9725
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary: 0141 211 8580
- Inverclyde Royal Hospital: 01475 54379
- Royal Alexandra Hospital: 0141 314 7057
- Royal Hospital for Children: 0141 452 2880
- Queen Elizabeth University Hospital: 0141 452 2880
- New Stobhill Hospital: 0141 355 1406
- New Victoria Hospital: 0141 347 8537
- West Glasgow ACH: 0141 201 0164
Studio and Location Based Clinical Photography
Clinical photographs provide a permanent and accurate recording of a patient’s condition, and are used to monitor the progress of treatment, assist with diagnosis, and for triage (further specialist opinion). All patients can be seen by a photographer within our fully-equipped clinical photographic studios, or on location in wards or clinic areas.
Fully Trained and Accredited Professional Clinical Photographers
Photographs are taken by fully qualified professional clinical photographers, who are registered with the Academy of Healthcare Scientists (AHCS) for professional accreditation and regulation. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has adopted the IMI Code of Responsible Practice and Protocols for Ethical Conduct and Legal Compliance in respect of patient consent and confidentiality. Patients are treated with the upmost respect and care.
Full Range of Diagnostic Equipment
Our photographers are trained to use a broad range of camera equipment to make sure we can provide accurate diagnostic images to our healthcare colleagues, ranging from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for ophthalmic patients to polarised lighting techniques in dermoscopic images for skin specialists.
Non-clinical and PR Photography
Our team are accomplished in capturing non-clinical moments within the healthcare environment. This ranges from staff portraits to coverage of high-profile events and visits. Our team has won many professional awards and has been published within various media and news outlets.
Medicolegal Photography
Medical Illustration Services will accept instructions from external agencies across the UK requiring personal injury photography. Our expert clinical photographers provide high quality photographic documentation for Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence cases, producing accurate and legitimate photographic evidence of injury.
Medical Image Manager – MIM
Medical Image Manager is a purpose-built database solution which allows healthcare professionals to access clinical photographs at workstations using a simple web browser. The system has been fully implemented within the acute hospitals of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
To log onto MIM click the Medical Image Manager link here or access directly via the Clinical Portal.
Registration: To register to use the system, please complete the MIM System Access Request Form. This form can be filled in electronically but must be signed and authorised: unsigned electronic copies will not be processed. Due to the sensitive nature of the images held within the database, access is restricted.
Important: Users must have an active XGGC account and Clinical Portal account to register for the system.
Please be aware that access to any patient identifiable information is governed by the Data Protection Act 1998. Your rights and responsibilities under this act can be found in the NHS Code of Practice on Protecting Patient Confidentiality.
Email us if you have any enquiries.
Secure Clinical Image Transfer – SCIT
Clinical photographs used for treatment planning, diagnosis, and recording and monitoring the progress of a patient’s condition, form an essential part of the patient’s healthcare record.
The Secure Clinical Image Transfer (SCIT) app is NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s approved method for capturing clinical photographs securely on a registered mobile device in acute and community settings.
Authorised users of the SCIT app should familiarise themselves with the SCIT Usage Policy, NHSGGC’s Information Security, Mobile Communications, and Recordings (Photography and Video) for Clinical and Service Use policies, and work in compliance with them at all times.
SCIT can only be used on NHS GGC-owned devices, and should only be used if professional clinical photography services are not available. SCIT cannot be used on personal devices at this point in time.
Approved devices: NHS GGC-issued Samsung mobile phones (ordered through Telecomms)
Users will be audited in terms of user access, data input, and image quality, and notified of any issues; if ongoing, you’ll be removed from the authorised list and the SCIT app deactivated.
If you have an approved device, you can apply for access to SCIT.
Training: Watch the SCIT Overview and Training video for more information.
Print on the Web – POTW
A searchable patient information resource database relating to conditions treatments and services provided by our hospitals. Written by our health care professionals, and reviewed regularly to ensure all information is up to date. PDF previews of each document can be viewed before ordering.
Production
From a simple piece to camera, to role play, training, or complex campaigns and dramatisations, together we’ll help you film concepts with impact. We work within sensitive clinical environments, and understand the requirements for patient consent, confidentiality, and infection control when filming clinical programmes. Most of our work is undertaken outside the studio, to bring a sense of realism and to create a dynamic that presents the viewer with a compelling series of visuals. Our production services include design for animation and motion graphics produced in-house at our studio in Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Our standard production studio is a flexible space that can accommodate green screen arrangements, and our in-house autocue system can also be used on location. We’ll work with you to create resources that have impact and can be readily adapted for subtitling, translation or British Sign Language (BSL). Never has it been so important to understand how we engage with communities and we are proud of our work that reflects this.
Simple Recordings
So many services find themselves changing practices, and are left without an easy way to train, educate or consult. We’ve introduced a simple studio-based recording service to allow us to meet this demand. We can still offer fully supported productions but these take longer in planning. We’ll review your requirements, contact you for any clarifications and confirm what the cost will be.
How we work
Tell us what you need and how you think it might look. We’ll work to understand your requirements, and how closely you want to be involved in production. Once agreed, we’ll develop the project plan with you. In essence, we take complex ideas and interpret them, turning the problem in to a simple and clever narrative. If we don’t understand your goals, then we can’t produce what you need, so we revisit your ideas until we do, and support you in co-writing your script. Dependent on the treatment, we interpret a script visually by creating an image sequence (storyboard) that helps you ‘see’ the film before it’s made. Once the proposal has been signed off, we’ll assign a dedicated producer who’ll be your contact, overseeing the whole project. This tends to happen quickly over a short space of time, and with good reason. Everything should be planned, agreed and in place. It’s where we bring together yours and our commitment. From the outset, we need to know your deadline, and equally important, how and where the production is going to be used. Understanding release intention is key to successful promotion, and if you are unsure then we can advise on how best this can be delivered.
Supporting Patients
Giving patients information they need in a clear, appropriate format is one of the key roles of the Graphic Design & Print Team. We maintain and supply over 1000 patient information leaflets across the service. We support health improvement campaigns and well-being initiatives including exhibition/display designs, brochures, posters, branding, and promotional ideas, and offer a bespoke solution to every situation.
Supporting the Organisation
We provide signage and wayfinding, design and print forms, ensuring that through quality of design, all standards are adhered to – governance, branding, and accessibility.
Supporting Staff
NHSGGC relies on its staff to deliver the best quality healthcare, and we help you deliver that care. You’ll receive the best advice on how to deliver essential information in the most appropriate and cost-effective way.
Supporting the Environment
Despite a commitment to paper-light practices, there is still a huge volume of print undertaken within GGC. We have the biggest in-house NHS print facility in Scotland, to match our print on demand requirement. We provide a robust professional print-buying service ensuring best value for money and quality assurance, using the Government Procurement Tender (Quick Quote) and PECOS systems.
Medical Illustration Services provide a professional and clinical photography, video and graphic design service to healthcare professionals within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and to external organisations and private clients. We promote best practice for clinical care and documentation, and support teaching and research. Our staff are qualified healthcare scientists, who work to the highest standards with the latest technology available.
The continued learning opportunities of our AHP workforce is of vital importance, in consolidating the services we deliver today, and ensuring our teams are enabled to deliver the services and roles we aspire to in the future.
The NHSGGC AHP Learning and Development Strategic Framework has been designed to support all AHP staff in NHSGGC to access educational opportunities. This being at all levels of practice across the career framework, from Health Care Support Worker to Advanced and Consultant level of practice.
The framework highlights that all staff will have equal access to ongoing learning, training and development within their role. Recognising that AHP capabilities are required of all staff across the four pillars of practice. These being clinical practice, facilitation of learning, leadership and evidence, research and development (including service improvement).
Professional and Service Leads developed the framework following an AHP staff communication exercise. The framework is underpinned by the four pillars of practice and it is aligned to local and national policy drivers. The framework is accessible, easy to understand and key in supporting AHPs to take ownership of their learning and development. It is a live resource to support meaningful role and career conversations.
The NHSGGC Practice Education team provides information and support to all Practice Supervisors / Practice Assessors working within NHSGGC. Not only do we offer a choice of online and in-person support sessions, but also a variety of additional resources which includes presentations, interactive guides and audio podcasts.
Further information on preparing to become a Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor as well as information you will find useful when supporting students can be accessed from this portal.
Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor Support Sessions
In order to secure a place, sign-up using the links below.
Practice Assessment Document (PAD)
During this session we aim to provide a general overview of the PAD. In addition to discussing the role of the Practice Supervisor and Practice Assessor, this session will provide information and encourage discussion on the topics of student assessment, grading and the proficiencies, skills and procedures that students must achieve, as well as the principles of learning development support planning.
Wednesday, 9th October 2024 at 2pm – 3pm via MS Teams
Wednesday, 30th October 2024 at 2pm – 3pm via MS Teams
PAD Session Additional Resources
NMC Future Nurse – Skills and Procedures
During this session we aim to increase your awareness of the theory student nurses learn at university and the skills and procedures they must demonstrate to enter the NMC register. In addition, this session will provide an outline of governance processes and resources available to guide Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor in their role of supporting students to demonstrate specific skills and procedures.
Thursday, 17th October 2024 at 2pm – 3pm via MS Teams
Thursday, 7th November 2024 at 2pm – 3pm via MS Teams
NMC Future Nurse – Skills and Procedures Session Additional Resources
Reasonable Adjustments: Religion and Culture
During this session we aim to provide practical support to Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessors in supporting individual requirements related to Religion and Culture. Furthermore, the session provides an overview of our diverse workforce, examples of related reasonable adjustments and how to manage them in practice. Lastly, opportunity to discuss what constitutes a reasonable adjustment, learning development support plans, interim feedback meetings and additional supports available are provided.
Reasonable Adjustments: Religion and Culture Additional Resources
Reasonable Adjustments: Dyslexia
During this session aim to increase your awareness of dyslexia and how you as Practice Supervisors / Practice Assessors can support student nurses with dyslexia in the practice learning environment. Furthermore, the session provides an overview of dyslexia, including positive influences, related characteristics, and professional and legal obligations. Lastly, the session also provides an opportunity to discuss the process for putting a reasonable adjustment in place and completion of learning development support Plans.
Reasonable Adjustments: Dyslexia Additional Resources
Reasonable Adjustments: Mental Health and Anxiety
During this session we aim to increase your awareness of anxiety, how this impacts student nurses and how you as Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor can support them within the practice learning environment. Furthermore, the session also provides an opportunity to discuss what constitutes a reasonable adjustment, learning development support plans, interim feedback meetings and additional supports available.
Reasonable Adjustments: Mental Health and Anxiety Additional Resources
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This section provides practice supervision / assessment related documents and resources for all those involved in the supervision and assessment of student nurses and midwives within NHSGGC.
(Please note we are continuing to work on the information supplied on this page.)
Sample Learning Development Support Plans
Learning Development Support Plans are used to support students to meet specific objectives, particularly if they face challenges in achieving the level of knowledge and/or skills required by their educational programme or if there are concerns regarding their professional practice. These sample plans can be used to help you to write an effective Learning Development Support Plan to support students to progress in their practice learning environment.
New skills and procedures for student nurses
Guide for staff regarding the supervision and assessment of new skills and procedures for student nurses undertaking pre-registration 2020 programmes.
About Annex A: Communication and relationship management skills – Examples from practice
This resource has been developed to assist you in your role as practice supervisors and practice assessors to support students to achieve Annexe A: Communication and relationship management skills.
Student IT access
Students must have active NHSGGGC accounts to access our healthcare systems needed to participate in Practice Learning Environments. In order to get started with our main hospital systems, guides have been created and these are available on the Learn section of the student external eHealth portal. This additional guide outlines the process for students to register for the student eHealth portal in order to report IT issues and to change their student account to NQP status.
Supplementary factsheets about specific eHealth programmes
Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicine Administration (HEPMA)
This resource will supplement practice supervision / assessment in the workplace for student nurses and midwives. Additionally, it is practice supervisor and practice assessor facing and provides information and guidance on Pharmacology.
Blood transfusion
GGC Clinical Transfusion Policy provides information on the involvement of students in the transfusion process.
Raising concerns in practice: student guidance
This guidance is designed for use in all audited practice learning environments across Scotland. It aims to describe the process for dealing with instances of poor care witnessed by nursing or midwifery students while on practice. In this case, poor care refers to situations in which one perceives care as inadequate, below an acceptable standard, abusive, or neglectful, based on the premise that one should never accept poor care.
Practice Learning Support Protocol
These flowcharts illustrate guidance for student nurses and midwives, as well as PS / PAs, on dealing with concerns, although not care concerns, we come across in Practice Learning Environments.
‘Speaking up’ – National Whistleblowing Guidance for Nursing and Midwifery Students in Scotland
This guidance details the process for raising a concern and intends for nursing and midwifery students in Scotland to use it while undertaking PLEs during their pre-registration nursing and midwifery programmes.
Versions of Practice Assessment Documents
(NHS Scotland sign in may be required)
If additional PAD pages are required, please refer to the relevant PAD and print the individual page(s).
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