Lynette Whitehead

We, the Volunteer Service, said a huge thank you to our team's volunteer today. Thank you Sabrina, we really appreciate the time and support you give to us . We have cake for this afternoon too! @PennineCareNHS @KirstiePcnhs @l_whitehead19 #VolunteersWeek

More cheers for our volunteers 👏 Our Beech ward volunteers are Brilliant at Birch Hill, including gardener Michelle and mealtime assistant Carol. Thanks for everything you do to help patients and improve our services! #PennineCarePeople #VolunteersWeek

Not forgetting our 4 legged friends on #volunteersweek Pearl (left) visits patients on Whittaker Unit and Lola visits our young people on Hope Ward. @PetsAsTherapyUK @PennineCareNHS Thank you to their owners in letting our patients share them

Some great examples this week of how #penninecarepeople are celebrating and thanking our volunteers for #VolunteersWeek If you are interested in becoming a volunteer @PennineCareNHS , visit our webpage penninecare.nhs.uk/volunteer

Jacob is one of our fantastic Patient Experience Volunteers. He helps services to gather feedback from people accessing our services. Thanks Jacob! @PennineCareNHS #VolunteersWeek @KirstiePcnhs

Today seems the start of Volunteers' Week for 2024. It's a time to say an extra special THANK YOU to all our fantastic volunteers. @PennineCareNHS #VolunteersWeek

Special thanks Doris, retiring after 15 years volunteering with older people’s mental health services! Doris was the smiling face on reception, greeting patients & visitors, creating welcome packs, knitting comfort blankets. Enjoy a happy, healthy retirement!💙#VolunteersWeek

Big thanks from patients & staff for Mike volunteering in Stockport @sodelafo @Michelledavisq @KirstiePcnhs @mattwalshNDQ

@anniemarydixon @nicky_littler @gleesonshawnna1 @PennineCareNHS Great news Annie. I know our service users and carers have really felt included in this work and have already seen the changes from their input.

Proud to lead the education and workforce development team and to have worked with our service users and carers to develop our HCSW programme. Without them all winning this award would not have been possible! @nicky_littler @gleesonshawnna1 @PennineCareNHS

“Once they’ve got this great big, long list of everything they do, we then say – that’s what the carers do as well.” Phil, our Triangle of Care lived experience co-chair, talks about the importance of involving carers in patient safety work. #WorldPatientSafetyDay #WPSD2023

Chocolates, pens, suggestions ... #CarersWeek2023

Thanks to Donna And Collette from the Anthony Seddon Fund for coming up to chat to our ladies this morning and also big thanks to our volunteers for their input . #TeamTaylor @Teeeeeeeeeeee82 @tasfund @PennineCareNHS @sophiecoxonx @DebbieArtingst1 @DannyTheLove

Spent some time with @PaulaLB27 the lovely ward manager at Rosewood this morning. Happy to hand over a new #volunteer for the ward at The Meadows. Who wants a volunteer next? @PennineCareNHS

We’ll soon be adding a new ‘carer space’ on our Paris electronic patient record system, to help capture info about how carers are involved and supported. 2/2

Triangle of Care self-assessments are underway and have been highlighting innovative and compassionate work from teams to involve carers. Graham and Jan, two of our carer assessors, have been visiting services and were really impressed with the support offered to carers. 1/2

Making lovely Valentine’s Day cards with Katie today along with some completed Diamond painting #TeamTaylor @Teeeeeeeeeeee82 @PennineCareNHS @ben_woffenden @ArtBettys

Our Burn’s Night afternoon has just finished and we just have to come on and say how proud we are of this little community we have. To see so many people with their own struggles, supporting others is amazing. Laughter, dancing and crying. We have seen it all today. Thank you 💚

We have a number of new involvement and engagement opportunities for people and carers with lived experience to influence and shape how we work - from hearing about our plans for the next year to shaping our approach to safety incidents. Find out more penninecare.nhs.uk/involvement

#thankyouthursday – Just a quick and very important thank you for everything you do! @PennineCareNHS #volunteers #nhsvolunteers

The Anthony Seddon Fund is passionate about supporting the mental health and wellbeing of the local community. For us, it starts with a brew... #MentalHealth #Tameside #GreaterManchester #PeerSupport #MentalHealthSupport #MentalHealthAwareness #Charity #MentalWellebing