Clinical support pack - physical healthcare

During the COVID crisis, it has become essential to free up the physical healthcare team to undertake the skills and interventions that only they are trained to deliver. We also need to be prepared that there is likely to be less capacity and availability from both acute hospital and community physical health services and that we may have less access to our internal physical healthcare trained staff.   

With this in mind this framework has been developed to outline the minimum skill set that is required to support the physical healthcare management of our patients and to ensure that simple and clear guidance to meet these needs is available to you as the clinical staff who may be providing this.  

This framework focuses on physical healthcare assessments and interventions specifically and should be used in conjunction with the Trust policies, virtual induction pack and local induction for the area that you are redeployed to. This has been approved by the Trust Executive Team and the Clinical / Ethical Advisory Group.   

• Please use the links in the COVID-19 Clinical Support Pack - Physical Healthcare (word document) to guide you through the training.
• To access the links/documents included in the pack you must hold down ctrl on your keyboard and then click link.
• We advise wherever possible to complete the training on either the NHS network (in the office) or if working from home NOT to access this on VPN, unless stated otherwise. You can access this site and most of the documents by turning off your proxy settings. Here is a guide on turning off proxy settings. 
• If the link is to a powerpoint or word document this will open in the footer of your internet window and you will need to click open file. Some links because of size may take a minute to open on slower networks.
• If these document links do not work through this route, some of the local documents/powerpoints, can be accessed using the folders below.