💥Bang goes D&G💥work out how to measure your muscle mass from your grip strength with the Dietetic team 💪#STEM NHS DG Dumfries & Galloway Chamber of Commerce DYW Scotland #AHPDG #BangGoesDG2024

💥Bang goes D&G💥 There are over 30 muscles working in your hand and arm when you play with putty! Come and test how strong your hands are with Occupational Therapy in the Gilchrist Room NHS DG Dumfries & Galloway Chamber of Commerce DYW Scotland #STEM #AHPDG #BamgGoeDG2024

What an amazing time we had at 💥Bang Goes D&G💥Over 1100 secondary school students who now have an awareness of how #STEM is used in the different allied health professions and I’ve gained top tips on how to make better slime! 💚NHS DG Dumfries & Galloway Chamber of Commerce DYW Scotland #AHPDG #BangGoesDG2024

Leadership behaviours for quality improvement Curious -Ask why & what else Creative -Imagine new ideas Empower -They can do it! Persistence -Don’t give up Experiment -Try things give it a go Learning -Good & bad Listening -To learn & understand Reflect -learn from experiences

Your behaviours, approach and style is just as important as your knowledge/ability to carry out improvement work

Are you part of the AHP workforce in Scotland? We would like to hear from you regarding student practice education. 👉Please complete the AHP Survey on Student Practice Education via this link: forms.office.com/e/Wgts7BGvBC #AHPPrBL Professor Carolyn McDonald Dr Gareth Hill Gail Nash

Applications are open for cohort 24 of Digital Health and Care Leadership Programme (DLP), from Aug 24. For anyone interested in digital health and care and leadership from NHS Scotland, social care, social work, housing, and the third sector. Read more nes.scot.nhs.uk/news/digital-h…

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Last month, Sarah Kirkpatrick & Paul Muir were invited to Heathhall Primary School to teach primary 5-7 some CPR skills ⚡️🚨🚑. 147 pupils as well as the teaching staff. Positive feedback from staff and parents taught. #CPRsavesLives NHS DG (📸 from School) Resuscitation Council UK

Calling all nurses, midwives, and AHPs: this 4-minute animation provides info on resources to support an underperforming student and making reasonable adjustment in the practice setting: vimeo.com/94249561 Professor Carolyn McDonald @Garethhill999 NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Maria Pollard

Don't miss the Placement Café with the placement team from University of Salford Occupational Therapy this Wednesday. ☕ Lisa and the team will talk about the RCOT practice-based learning quality and capacity research, which they are launching. How to join: loom.ly/oISnxW0

Say hello to Connor, a physiotherapist in NHS Grampian👋 👀 Check out a behind the scenes of Connor's role, and find out how you can become a physiotherapist! careers.nhs.scot/blog/ahps-behi… #NHSScotland #PhysiotherapyJobs

Today is International Paramedics Day 💚You can find out how to become a paramedic with us! 🚑 Find out everything you'll need, and what the role is like 👉 careers.nhs.scot/explore-career… #InternationalParamedicsDay College of Paramedics

Claire Hedley- interesting question. How do we lift our ‘cloak of invisibility’? ahpscot.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/ahp… @Ahpscot have had fantastic blogs from AHPs in Forth Valley, always space to showcase more Laura Lennox AHPed

Learning & change are deeply connected. Successful change requires continuous learning, yet we often don't think enough about the fundamental nature of learning as it enables change. Here are "ten mental models (general ideas that explain things) for learning anything": from the

Shout out to healthcare support workers! They provide care, compassion & continuity to patients in the #NHS A role that doesn’t get enough credit but is so important. Thank you for everything you do Created in conjunction with NHS England South East Region 🌟

One of my favourite illustrators of organisational life is Virpi Oinonen / Business illustrator. Here she is highlighting wicked problems (messes). These are complex issues involving many interdependent factors, making them hard to define & understand fully & with no clear solution. Most of the issues we