The Weekly Wrap: 15 February 2023

Various dates available. Click on the link to register and choose a date.

1. A shared understanding of family violence-Register here
2. Identifying and Screening for family violence-Register here
3. Intermediate Risk Assessment and Management of Family  Violence –Register here
4. Identifying and Responding to children at risk—Register here

• Pascoe Vale – Pascoe Vale Outdoor Pool *Seasonal Pool – Reopens December*
• Preston – Iron Kingdom – Preston 24/7
• Reservoir – Reservoir Health and Fitness 24/7
• Mount Beauty Swimming Pool

*Seasonal Pool – Reopens November*

• Myrtleford Swimming Pool

*Seasonal Pool – Reopens November*

• Noble Park Aquatic Centre
• Pascoe Vale Outdoor Pool

*Seasonal Pool – Reopens December*

• Powerhouse Gym Bayswater North 24/7
• Reservoir Health and Fitness 24/7
• Seymour Sports and Aquatic Centre
• Sky Fitness 24/7
• Snap Fitness Heidelberg 24/7
• Tangambalanga Swimming Pool *Seasonal Pool – Reopens November*
• The Sands Torquay Health Club
• Warragul Leisure Centre
• Heidelberg – Snap Fitness Heidelberg 24/7
• Keilor Downs – Brimbank Aquatic and Wellness Centre
• Kilmore – Kilmore Leisure Centre
• Lilydale – Genesis Lilydale 24/7 *Coming in October!*
• Meadow Heights – Derrimut
• Coolaroo 24/7
• Melbourne – Doherty’s Gym 24/7 – City
• Melton – Derrimut Melton 24/7
• Morwell – Latrobe Leisure Centre Morwell
• Mount Beauty – Mount Beauty Swimming Pool *Seasonal Pool – Reopens November*
• Myrtleford – Myrtleford Swimming Pool *Seasonal Pool – Reopens November*
• Newborough – Latrobe Leisure Centre Moe Newborough
• Noble Park – Noble Park Aquatic Centre
• Pakenham – Derrimut Pakenham 24/7
• Ballarat – Derrimut Ballarat 24/7
• Bayswater – Powerhouse Gym Bayswater North 24/7
• Bright – Bright Sports Centre
• Brunswick – Doherty’s Gym 24/7 – Brunswick
• Bundoora – Gym on Grimshaw 24/7
• Burwood – DeakinACTIVE Burwood
• Chelsea Heights – Kennedy’s Health and Fitness
• Churchill – Latrobe Leisure Centre Churchill
• Coburg North – Coburg Olympic Swimming Pool *Seasonal Pool – Reopens December*
• Craigieburn – Elevate 24:7 Fitness
• Dandenong – Doherty’s Gym 24/7

– Dandenong

• Epping – Crunch Epping – 18+ Only
• Flora Hill – La Trobe Sport Centre Bendigo
• Healesville – Healesville Fitness Centre

Tickets are now on sale

Join us for the Women for Western Health Giving Circle Breakfast and celebrate International Women’s Day.

When: Friday 10^th March 2023

7am – 9am

Where: Melbourne Zoo – Leopard Lodge

Purchase your ticket today

We will be joined by

Host:  Michelle Redfern, founder of Advancing Women, A Career that Soars! And Culturally Diverse Women (CDW).

Guest speaker: Ms Tasneem Chopra OAM.  Tasneem is a cross-cultural consultant. Her areas of expertise are diversity and intersectionality in leadership across sectors, centering on issues of identity, race and gender inequity. Tasneem is the inaugural Ambassador for Women of Colour, Australia.

All proceeds will support Western Health innovation projects as voted by Women for Western Health members.  The Women for Western Health Giving Circle is a membership based program that brings together like minded people who are looking to connect and make an impact in the community.

BankVic is currently offering $4,000 cash back for Home Loans on new home purchases and refinances from other financial institutions to eligible members.

Talk to BankVic about $4,000 Cashback on Home Loans*!

BankVic is currently offering $4,000 cash back for Home Loans on new home purchases and refinances from other financial institutions to eligible members.

Now is a great time for a financial health check on your home loan.

You may also be eligible for a $4,000 cash back if you apply to take out a new home loan or refinance to BankVic.

This cash back offer is available for a limited time, and applies to home loan applications received between 1 February and 31 March, and settled by the 31 July 2023

For applications between 1 February 2023 and 31 March 2023, and settled by 31st July 2023 and up to 80% LVR.

BankVic works with their members to understand their goals and help them find solutions that suit their individual needs at different times in their life.

It’s all part of BankVic’s commitment to the financial wellbeing of our members.

Contact Michelle today for a free financial health check or visit the BankVic at Sunshine Hospital

Michelle Ferry 0418 415 096 or email mferry@bankvic.com.au

*Terms Conditions and eligibility criteria apply

Police Financial Services Limited ABN 33 087 651 661 trading as BankVic AFSL and Australian Credit License 240293

The Emergency Management team contribute to meeting Western Health’s moral and legal health and safety obligations to provide and maintain a working environment that is safe and without risks to health through the implementation of the Western Health emergency management framework.

To help ensure staff are equipped to deal with an emergency, the emergency management team from the Safety Risk and Emergency Management Unit, provide training, evacuation exercises, scenario-based exercises and more. The Emergency Management Officers, Peter Heyes and Louise Livsey, review new work areas and provide advice on capital projects to ensure areas are fit for purpose and comply with emergency management standards.  Peter and Louise also provide valuable insight and advice in reviewing incidents to help identify where improvements can be made.

The Safety Risk and Emergency Management (SREM) Unit will contribute to a series of Weekly Wrap articles on a range of topics. In the next edition, we will cover the response to an Uncontained Code Black. If you have suggestions for future articles, please email the SREM Unit

 Stock Stampede

Are you in need of a Nissan? Madly searching for a Mitsubishi? Keen to get into a Kia? Don’t miss our new car Stock Stampede – with a great range of deals on a great range of new cars – in stock now and ready to lease.  

What is coercive control?

This video introduces coercive control as the pattern of family violence that a perpetrator uses and its impact on victim survivors.

Coercive Control – MARAM Animation Series – YouTube  (2:30)

This is the challenge you’ve been waiting for!

Escape Melbourne’s cold winter and discover one of the world’s most inspiring walking tracks – the Larapinta Trail.

Join us in this July to trek the Aussie Outback and over six days. Experience the rich history of Australia’s First Peoples, trekking scenic landscapes along well-worn, red dirt tracks. At night, camp under a blanket of stars and fall asleep to the nocturnal sounds of the desert.

Raise vital funds to transform the health and wellbeing of Melbourne’s west.

As part of this incredible adventure, you’ll support, care for and empower those affected by cancer throughout their treatment and recovery journey, providing the best care for the people of the west, in the right place and at the right time.

Places are limited. To find out more visit

– https://inspiredadventures.com.au/event/westernhealth-larapinta-2023/

Western Health (WH) in partnership with VMIA are creating the Best Care Excellence & Improvement Project. The project aims to demonstrate how each staff member is a fundamental contributor to creating a culture of continuous improvement and driving the responsibility for improvement and change to every staff member.  

7 interactive We-Learn modules will include facilitating and teaching skills in improvement, innovation, and the role of ‘human factors’ in healthcare errors, including Safety I and Safety II thinking.

The learning modules will be released in a phased approach which will include

1. Live Best Care Module
2. Patient Experience and Engagement
3. Effective communication, Staff Engagement and Empowerment
4. Risk Identification, Incident Management and Open Disclosure
5. Clinical Practice Improvement, Project Management and Clinical Innovation
6. Clinical Informatics, Systems Thinking, Process Improvement and Change Management
7. Data Analysis and Application

The learning modules aim to move the organisation from reactive to proactive in regards to incidents and complaints. The programme aims to show each staff member how they are a fundamental contributor to creating a culture of continuous improvement and drive the responsibility for improvement and change to every staff member.

For more information visit the Live Best Care site Best Care Excellence & Improvement Project – Live Best Care (wh.org.au)

The extended meals and refreshment program – part of the Victorian Government’s winter retention strategy – came to an end on Tuesday 31 January 2023.

Running since 1 July last year, the program has provided just short of 80,000 meals to staff working night shift at Sunshine, Footscray, Williamstown and Bacchus Marsh Hospitals.

The program was due to cease on 31 December but the Victorian Government extended the program by an additional month.

Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical has offered us 20% off all tickets for its return Melbourne season from 16 February.

Based on the original Hollywood film, featuring an iconic soundtrack with songs like Bye, Bye, Bye (NSYNC), Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve), Sometimes (Britney Spears), Just A Girl (No Doubt), and Torn (Natalie Imbruglia) this show is “FUNNY & NOSTALGIA FULLED…THE BEST OF THE ’90S” Time Out

https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/cruel-intentions-the-90s-musical-tickets/artist/2595873?did=20off

Be good today and better tomorrow by signing up to your on-site Health Club EFM. 

Nothing to pay until March 1^st

All memberships are cost effective and pre tax deductions. Best of all you have a coach to guide you at every single workout as well as 24/7 access. Please call Jarrod on 0401951734 or email sunshine@efm.net.au to book a free trial.

As preparations for the EMR Phase 2.1 Go-Live continue, the Digital Health Team will soon visit the wards at Western Health’s EMR sites to discuss training opportunities. 

These Ward Walkarounds will take place between 13^th – 17^th and 20^{th –} 24^th February, and involve the Digital Health Team visiting the wards to answer questions from staff about the EMR, provide assistance with signing up for WeLearn packages and Super User training, or answer general EMR queries.

This is also a great chance for staff to ask any questions they may have about EMR Phase 2.1 and the enhancements this will bring to their department without having to leave their work space.

A full list of when the Digital Health team will be in the wards of our EMR sites is available here.

Further chances to engage with the Learning and Development team are also taking place this week with the pop-up Training Information Kiosks, which will be set up at designated locations at Footscray, Sunshine and Williamstown.

These kiosks give staff an opportunity to visit and chat to EMR trainers about EMR Phase 2.1 training, and will run from 12:30pm – 2:00pm on the following days:

The information kiosks and ward walkarounds were an invaluable training and communications tool during EMR Phase 1, and the Digital Health team are looking forward to engaging further with staff in the build-up to the EMR Phase 2.1 Go-Live.

For more information please contact the EMR Training Team at WHS-EMRTrainers@wh.org.au

A tailored medical leadership program for senior clinicians.

Flexible study modes to fit-around your busy clinical schedule delivered by Australia’s number one university and experts in health leadership.

Click here to find out more. 

SCCL Expression of Interest Dec 2022

Western Health have been approached by FormQuip, the developer of Cornerstone – a development planned between Footscray central and the New Footscray Hospital.

Given the location of the development and its proximity to the New Footscray Hospital, employees may be interested in finding out more about residential owner-occupier and investment options available for purchase. The building is expected to be completed by the time the New Footscray Hospital is completed. The brochure for the apartments is here and FormQuip have a display suite near the development.

It is important to note that Western Health has no involvement or commercial relationship with the developer, we are simply conveying this information as it may be of interest to our employees. Employees will need to make their own independent decision about this offer, and are advised to seek independent financial advice appropriate to their individual circumstances. FormQuip have partnered with Sure money to provide financial advice and information. You can find out more about this service here.

FormQuip will be holding information sessions specifically for Western Health staff at their display unit in Droop St in the new year. This session includes a site visit, and tour of apartment fitouts and options for different apartments. Third-party financial planners will also be available to provide advice.

If you are interested in attending an information session (or you are unable to attend but would like more information) you can contact FormQuip representatives Paul Carney (0418 856 856) or Sean Bishop (0419 231 542).

EMS is now open for all 2023 bookings

There’s never been a better time to get into an electric vehicle, and there’s never been a better way than through a novated lease with Maxxia.

With the Australian Government’s Electric Car (EV) Discount, taking out a novated lease on an EV just got a whole lot cheaper. So, if you were thinking about making the switch to an eligible electric or hybrid vehicle your timing is impeccable.

As Australia’s largest novated lease provider, we’re ready to help get you into an electric or hybrid car of your choice. We’ve geared up our systems and are working closely with key suppliers to help you make a confident choice – for yourself and the environment

New Child Safeguarding WeLearn modules

1. Impact of FDV on the child (1 hour) Course: The Impact of Family and Domestic Violence on the child (wh.org.au)
2. Family and Domestic Violence and Child Aware Practices ( 2-4 hours) Course: Family and domestic violence and child-aware practice (wh.org.au)

Certificate available on completion to upload to WeLearn

EDUCATION & LEARNING UPCOMING COURSES:

Resuscitation Mandatory Competencies: Sessions have recommenced. In the first instance, can you arrange an assessment with your local instructor or educator. Resus educators are contacting managers to arrange local sessions for individual teams. Dedicated sessions for Bank and Pool Staff along with separate sessions for Nursing and Medical staff are available on Welearn.

Invasive Lines & Cannulation: Dates for Bank-Pool Nursing staff, Ward Nursing staff, Radiology, and Medical staff available soon.

• Please note: The 15/02/2023 Wound Care Education session is cancelled.
• 22/02/2023 Central Venous Access Devices (CVAD): 14:30-15:30 (FH & WTN Sim). Bookings essential. Please speak with your clinical educator.
• 0​2/03/2023 & 09/03/2023: Mental Health First Aid
• 20/03/2023: VAC Therapy Study Day
• ​04/04/2023 Heart Failure Study Day
• 06/04/2023: Bank and Pool Study Day
• 14/04/2023: ALS1 training
• More courses click here: Courses and Inservices (westernhealth.org.au)

Course Enrolment/Inquiries:
Welearn Helpdesk Email: welearn@wh.org.au
Welearn Enrolment link: welearn@wh.org.au

Learn new tools for Telehealth video calls

A new Telehealth WeLearn module is now available to help guide clinicians on how to use Healthdirect Video Call, and includes tips & tricks on conducting an efficient and safe Telehealth consultation.

The aim of the module is to improve clinician confidence in using Video Call and conducting Telehealth consults, which will also lead to an improved clinician and patient experience.

The learning module only takes 5-10 minutes to complete and will help clinicians get up and running with the basics of Telehealth quickly.

Search for Telehealth on the WeLearn website to find the Western Health Telehealth learning module, and for further information about Telehealth at Western Health please visit the Telehealth and Virtual Care page on the Digital Health information site.

Get in quick to secure your free BankVic wall calendar

The ever popular BankVic Wall Calendars (A2 size) are available from the Foundation Office (Ground Floor, Footscray Hospital – opposite the library).

Calendars can be collected from the Foundation office Monday – Thursday between 10am-1pm.

Get a free Financial Health Check today

A home loan health check can help you assess your current financial situation and assist in setting goals for the future. It also looks at whether your current home loan still suits your needs.

At the same time, you might find now is a good time to refinance, you might be able to get a better deal on your home loan and save on your repayments.

We work with our members to understand their goals and help them find solutions that suit their individual needs at different points in their life.

It’s all part of BankVic’s commitment to the financial wellbeing of our members.

Contact Michelle today to get your free home loan health on

0418 415 096 or email mferry@bankvic.com.au.

Police Financial Services Limited ABN 33 087 651 661 trading as BankVic AFSL and Australian Credit Licence 240293.

Make a pre-tax donation direct from your pay

The Western Health Foundation have launched their staff giving program “Small change creates big change”

Your small change has the ability to make a big impact to support staff, patients and their families.

We are all aware of the huge need for support for our most vulnerable patients and community. Small change creates big change helps to provide support when and where it’s needed.

Nominate your regular pre-tax donation and sign-up today. Complete the personal details form here and return the completed form to peopleservicesoperations@wh.org.au

Last year alone, the Western Health Foundation provided more than $700,000 to fund new equipment, patient and staff support and world-class research, including:

• Purchasing new ECG machines to support the rollout of the EMR project
• Fellowships and scholarships for staff development
• Culturally sensitive Welcome Packs for patients who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Care packs to help patients undergoing cancer treatment
• Purchasing mobility aids or medication for patients who are in great hardship.

If you have any other questions about the Foundation or donating, please contact Katrina.desfosses@wh.org.au