St Giles Hospice Quality Account 2018/2019 St Giles Hospice 2018-19 Quality Account | Page 21

14. Supporting staff and our community
to have a voice within our organisation
We celebrated the first
completed year of our five year
strategy in September 2018 by
holding a series of events across
our catchment.
In 2018/19 St Giles engaged
with a variety of community
groups which supported mutual
learning and exploration.
These included a voluntary
organisation that supports
people with learning disabilities
and the South Staffordshire
Mental Health Network.
We have also engaged with a
group of women from different
generations (age range 40 to
90s) from mainly South Asian
origin who meet on a weekly
basis in Walsall where discussion
around death dying and
bereavement was facilitated on
a monthly basis for two months.
Conversations around death,
dying and bereavement were
facilitated and these monthly
sessions have made us realise
there is an appetite for this type
of work within this community.
The sessions were tweaked
as learning was gathered and
further sessions were requested
by the group.
We have also engaged with a
local Stroke Association on the
subject of Care Planning, the
group found the sessions very
useful and in turn they have
helped us with a project we are
currently involved in around
care planning.
During the national Dying
Matters Week in May 2018,
we held several events and
workshops across our catchment
area. Working in partnership
with Tamworth Cooperative
Funeral Service, we held a pop
up shop in Tamworth, where we
invited the public to pop in, have
a tea of coffee and discuss death
and dying related matters.
We also hosted an art exhibition
entitled ‘Arts for Life’ which
demonstrated the connection
between art and hospice life.
Local schools, art societies, day
hospice patients, dancers and
poets all engaged to showcase
the relationship between art and
end of life care.
Staff and volunteers continued
to be involved in Listening into
Action, an NHS organisational
development and improvement
tool, of which St Giles Hospice
was the first hospice to be
involved. This included a work
stream on staff wellbeing.
Throughout the year the
senior management team hold
monthly hospice briefings
which all staff and volunteers
are free to attend, besides
providing updates on what is
happening across the hospice
it is an opportunity for staff and
volunteers to ask questions.
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