What a spooktacular day at Woodbank! 🎃 We had fun with fancy dress, a Halloween buffet, games, dancing and a trick or treat pamper bag for tonight and it was great to see the whole team getting involved. We all loved it 🎃👻🎉Happy Halloween from Woodbank 👻👻

🎉 Our fabulous Gemma has been nominated for October's M&M (Marvellous and Magnificent) Award! 🌟 The team nominated Gemma for making the ward a nice place to work and for her positive attitude. Thank you, Gemma, for always going above and beyond! 🙌🏻💫

🍂 Words of Woodbank autumn newsletter is now available! Our fantastic Laura has put together a summary of our recent activities, what's coming up, getting to know Bronwen one of our fabulous staff, and some fun facts/games. It’s a great update for all our ladies and families📚

Another great day with animal therapy yesterday on Woodbank 🐰🐸🐹 Always so much fun and brings so much joy to the ward!!

Woodbank Ward really getting into the spirit of Christmas now, this will be Woodbank’s first ever Christmas so if anyone has any decorations or games to donate that would be greatly appreciated #WoodbankWard

🎉 Woodbank’s first student nurse completed their placement with us today! We were grateful to receive a card, key ring, and of course chocolate! It’s been great having students and I am glad to hear they enjoyed the placement and found it to be a great learning opportunity! 🌟

Our discharge garden is blooming with creativity 🌻One of our talented patients painted this masterpiece 🎨Each flower added will represent our patients journey #safewards

🎉Our winter edition of Words of Woodbank is out. Inside, you find photos of our recent activities, a glimpse of our art gallery, and our model of care. Getting to know Evan and our doctors a little better.

One of the highlights from last year, the final paper from #WardSonar proving that patients can identify incidences in advance, and there is window of opportunity post-incident to prevent further ones bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Such a wholesome Sunday on Woodbank playing bingo with all the patients and bracelet making afterwards. Everyone had so much fun!! Followed by a fakeaway in the evening, delish!!

Today’s 2pm and 6pm protected time activity we prepared some paper mache balloons, and later painted them. We’ve got some tortoises, a strawberry, a bike helmet and Africa.

🎉Congratulations to our amazing Grace, Woodbank’s January's Marvelous & Magnificent (M&M) winner! Grace has a positive impact on the ward always going above and beyond. Thank you for always lending a helping caring hand to both staff and patients! 🌟

Congratulations, Grace! The Woodbank team have this marvellous and magnificent M&M award to celebrate good work from colleagues caring for people on the psychiatric intensive care unit. How do you recognise others or show appreciation? #PennineCarePeople

🎉 Exciting news! We have another winner for our M&M award! Our fabulous Charley has hit the ground running, always ready to help and fully implementing our 3P model of care with her named patients. Thank you, Charley! 🌟

This incredible new feature wall on Woodbank psychiatric intensive care unit was painted by a former patient. The wall of hope aligns with our safewards practice, while being a creative focus during the artists' stay on the unit. It brings hope and positivity to everyone.

Congratulations to our February M&M Award winner, Josephine! 🌟 She was nominated for always going above and beyond for both patients and staff, and for lifting everyone's spirits with her positive attitude and infectious smile! Well done Josephine 🎉

Huge congrats to our April M&M winner, the amazing Jake! A true team favourite and greatly appreciated by patients, he’s always going the extra mile and looking for ways to make things better. Well deserved! 👏

We are so proud of our amazing Josephine for being nominated as Preceptee of the Year! Her dedication to patient care and support for the ward shine through every day. Well deserved! 👏

What a wonderful day we had yesterday celebrating! 🎉Huge thanks to our amazing Rachael (OT) for putting together the beautiful videos, such a lovely way to remember the day 🎉

📣🚨 Calling all Charge Nurses! This is a fantastic opportunity to join our amazing Woodbank team. Don’t miss this opportunity 🎉 Pennine Care NHS FT Katie Gartside Aimee_Steadman Rachel🍃 ساحرة jobs.penninecare.nhs.uk/job/v7398237