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<\/span><\/div>06 April 2020 \u2013 COVID-19 (coronavirus)<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n We have created three temporary Directors of Clinical Operations positions to support our COVID-19 response. These positions will be based at Redcliffe Hospital, The Prince Charles Hospital and Caboolture Hospital and will support the Executive Directors to manage operations during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery, and also ensuring our non-COVID-19 healthcare continues to be high quality.<\/p>\n Applications are open to all staff from all professions and streams in Metro North. Applications close at 4pm next Monday (Easter Monday, 13 April). Please see the role description for more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n As is now a Monday tradition, below is a summary of last week\u2019s COVID-19 response activities:<\/p>\n Preparedness initiatives last week<\/strong><\/p>\n Our activity for the past week<\/strong><\/p>\n Looking after our people<\/strong><\/p>\n Workforce hubs are being established locally and centrally throughout Metro North. These will be the key areas responsible for managing reallocation of staff to priority clinical are and management of our vulnerable workforce. In line with social distancing we continue to offer virtual staff training, as well as supporting flexible working arrangements where suitable. Also revised are our workforce FAQs<\/a> and a new employment arrangements flowchart<\/a> (under Fact Sheets leave) has been created to support staff.<\/p>\n To help keep staff healthy, we have purchased more than 16,000 flu vaccinations for our staff vaccination program, with frontline staff receiving vaccines as a priority.<\/p>\n There is a strong focus on staff wellbeing initiatives and tools including working on the COVID-19 Staff Wellbeing online hub being launched later this week. Our staff guidelines around staff support for those who are vulnerable has also been updated.<\/p>\n We are developing a fatigue self-assessment card which will attach along with your ID card to ensure adequate breaks are taken.<\/p>\n\n
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