The NHS is more than just doctors and nurses.
Within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare, our multi-disciplinary teams are made up of clinical and non-clinical staff, all playing a vital role to deliver, support and develop what the Trust has to offer.
From music therapists and activities coordinators, to estates and catering, communications and community engagement, all the way to business management, legal services and logistics, we have many unique roles that you might not have even thought of. Take a look at our spotlight profiles below to learn more.
What is an Agile Working Co-ordinator?
I help our teams find local community venues to hold their events and meetings when we are unable to fulfil needs within our own estate. I also help to manage booking needs and to look for cost savings. This is a dual role, so I also help to manage users on our internal room booking system, help to maintain the system with updates and report on usage.
What is the best part of your role?
I really enjoy the interaction with different people and I’ve built up good relationships with staff and community. I like a challenge of finding something suitable and for the right price and I have autonomy to get on with it.
What training and skills are required?
Having good time management and communication skills, experience of using booking systems, excel spreadsheets and other applications such as SBS knowledge/training and the ability to build rapports with both staff and external stakeholders.
Barbara
Agile Working Co-ordinator
Onsite, hybrid/remote
Bernadette
Mental Health
Yoga Practitioner
Onsite, hybrid/remote
What is a CAMHS Yoga Practitioner?
I use yoga techniques to support children achieve greater body awareness and develop healthy coping and self-regulation skills, which is helping them feel more relaxed, grounded, and focused.
What does a typical day look like?
I work with approximately 20 children per week, my day focuses on preparing, undertaking and writing up the sessions, measuring progress for children and using this evidence to develop the yoga pathway.
What is the best part of your role?
Supporting the children and young people to develop their practice and seeing the impact of the work, evidenced in measurable outcomes.
What training and qualifications do you need?
You need 200 hours of yoga teacher training by an approved body and an understanding and experience of working with children with mental health diagnoses.
What is the ESR team?
ESR stands for Electronic Staff Records, so we hold and maintain a vast database about all our staff. The teams main job is keeping all staff information updated which feeds into annual leave, training records, workforce, recruitment and pay.
What tasks do you do in this role?
Ensuring the system is up and running, implementing updates and answering queries, overseeing my team working within the ESR platform, delivering training.
Whats the best part of your role?
Helping managers to understand our processes can sometimes be challenging, but it's really satisfying helping our staff to understand how their data impacts them.
What training and skills do you need?
Communication and people skills are key, and you need to have a desire to find out how information can impact staff. You can acquire knowledge about the Trust and it’s systems as you go.
Laurie
ESR Systems Manager
Onsite, hybrid/remote
Rosie
Participation Facilitator
Onsite, hybrid/remote
What is a Participation Facilitator?
We support our services to involve children and families to make improvements to their service. We give advice and guidance, facilitate workshops and empower teams with tools and training in how to work with children and families.
What does a typical day look like?
Every day is different. Recruiting and onboarding children and young people into our youth voice programme, working with our youth ambassadors to co-produce pieces of work, helping our young inspectors to carry out quality service visits, helping our young recruiters to help us recruit and select new staff, training for young people and staff.
What is the best bit of your role?
Probably the variety of work and the new challenges that comes with the role. For me, it's being able to listen to young people’s views and doing the best by them.
Qualifications and experience needed?
Degree level qualification and experience of working with young people, engagement and people involvement desirable.
With more than 350 different careers in the NHS, many of our staff work with patients, while others work behind the scenes.
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