Please only attend the Urgent and Emergency Care Centre if you are in need of emergency medical care.
NHS111 is available online to provide advice and signpost to appropriate local services.
Local pharmacists can also provide advice and treatment for most common injuries and illnesses.
Our colleagues are our biggest asset and we ensure there are benefits and support available.
Includes flexible working, hybrid working, a range of special leave, carer’s passports, and purchase of additional leave.
Rest and personal time are important, so we offer 27 days annual leave, increasing by two days after five years of service, and a further four days after 10 years of service.
Saving for the future is vital and we offer a generous pension scheme alongside life and family benefits, and flexible ways to increase your pension entitlements.
We offer the opportunity to spread payments for purchases such as bicycles, cars or childcare which are deducted at salary source.
We believe in empowering all our colleagues to have a voice, so we can continue to enhance their experience, enable our colleagues to thrive, bring their whole selves to work and feel part of team.
We are always wanting to improve our colleagues' skills and knowledge of the job and build colleagues' confidence in their abilities. This will improve performance and make people work more efficiently and effectively.
Freedom to Speak Up (FTSU) is about encouraging a positive culture where people feel they can speak up and their voices will be heard, and their suggestions acted upon. Speaking up is about anything that gets in the way of providing good care.
Via the VivUp programme, help and support with pressures at work or home is available any time, 24/7, 365 days a year.
A discount service for the emergency services, NHS and Armed Forces, providing discounts online and on the high street through a physical Blue Light Card. You can sign up for free and get codes for online stores. Alternatively you can pay for the physical card which can be used on the high street. The card costs £4.99 for a 2 years.
Find out more and sign up by visiting: www.bluelightcard.co.uk
Health Service Discounts has a range of discounts and benefits for NHS and healthcare staff. There are exclusive deals from big brands which could save you hundreds of pounds. The service is free to use and you can receive the latest deals direct to your email inbox.
Find out more by visiting: www.healthservicediscounts.com
We are proud of our colleagues and celebrate their achievements in a number of ways.
Every year, we hold our Proud Awards. Nominations can be submitted by our colleagues for a number of categories. We also ask members of the public to nominate their healthcare heroes in our Public Recognition Award. Winners are announced at our large award ceremony.
Colleagues can nominate a team or individual for the Excellence Awards. The recipients are chosen each month by our Chief Executive and announced at the Team Brief. Winners go forward to the Excellence category at the annual Proud Awards
Those reaching 25 years of NHS service are recognised for their hard work and dedication. We also hold a Long Service Award ceremony for those reaching 40 years of service to the NHS as part of the Proud Awards.
We embrace the diversity within our workforce and make everyone feel welcome.
We have three staff networks:
The networks are all staff-led.
We are pleased to work with Vivup to provide a 24/7 helpline service, which includes counselling, self-help information and fast-track access to therapy where needed.
Our colleagues can call Vivup at any time of day to access this service.
Once you contact Vivup, you they are provided with fast-track access to assessment and the appropriate support pathway:
Our colleagues also have access to Vivup’s online platform which has self-help materials, podcasts and webinars on topics such as anxiety, burnout and men’s health.
We’ve launched a dedicated menopause helpline to support all colleagues in their experience of the menopause. The helpline will be available 24/7 and partners are also able to call it.
The service offers:
We also have numerous training sessions on the menopause, whether you want to find out more about a specific topic or you’d like to become one of our menopause champions.
We have a menopause policy, detailing the support that can be offered.
As a Trust, we are accredited as a menopause friendly employer. This standard shows that we are committed and actively demonstrating support for the menopause in our organisation.
To support your financial wellbeing, we have the Wagestream app which comes with multiple features, including:
We have a fast-track colleague physiotherapy service. If you are having any pain you can refer yourself into the service.
You are usually seen within a couple of weeks and a treatment or management plan is created for you
Our colleagues can access complementary therapy massages at work:
A massage may help reduce stress and anxiety, promote relaxation, reduce muscle tension and improve sleep quality.
We offer cardiovascular checks to our colleagues.
The check involves calculating a person’s risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) through assessing the seven main risk factors; smoking status, body mass index (BMI), alcohol consumption, physical activity level, cholesterol level, blood pressure, and blood sugar level. You are then supported to reduce your risk of CVD through behaviour change interventions, such as weight management and to access clinical treatment where needed, for example drug treatment to reduce high blood pressure.
We offer fitness sessions and hydrotherapy pool sessions.
The fitness sessions are made up of 18 different exercises which you can tailor to your desired difficulty level. They are self-led, however, a member of staff is available to help or demonstrate any of the exercises if you need.
The hydrotherapy pool sessions are an opportunity for you to:
We work in partnership with Rotherham United FC to deliver fitness and activity sessions for colleagues. These are tailored to activities colleagues have told us they’d like to see.
Our wellbeing trolleys regularly visit departments across the Trust bringing free drinks, snacks and healthy breakfast pots! A chance for you to take a moment for yourself during your shift.
We recognise the value that serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to the Trust. As well as being Veteran Aware accredited, we also hold a Bronze Award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. This means we support the Armed Forces' community as an employer and our values align with the Armed Forces Covenant.
If you are interested in transitioning from a role in the armed forces into a career in healthcare, please take a look at the wealth of information available on the Step Into Health website.