We are working to ensure that children on the Isle of Wight are supported to get the best start in life that will lead to good health and wellbeing. This will provide the foundation to ensure they are able to achieve the best opportunities and keep as healthy and well as possible throughout their lives.
We want to ensure that families, individuals and communities are thriving and resilient with access to good jobs, affordable housing, leisure activities, lifelong training, education and learning, health and care services are are able to enjoy the place in which they live.
We want to ensure that people on the Isle of Wight are able to live independently in their own homes with appropriate care support. We want to make sure older residents are supported to play an active role in their communities and supported to maintain and develop their social and community networks.
Isle of Wight NHS Trust is full of caring, compassionate, and highly capable people. Our vision is for high quality, compassionate care that makes a positive difference to our Island community – each and every day. Being part of the NHS on the Isle of Wight is a unique privilege because the people who use our services are often our friends, family, or colleagues.
The Isle of Wight is a fantastic place to live, and you can see from our NHS Staff Survey results that we have made important progress in making the Trust a great place to work too. The Island is also an excellent place to test your skills and to work in new and innovative ways.
Our strategic partnerships, integrated services and commitment to quality improvement mean that you will get many opportunities to develop and to have a positive impact for our staff and our community.
The breadth of our services and the demographics of the population presents its own unique challenges and as well as some great opportunities. We are on an improvement journey and as part of that, we are developing partnership arrangements with other organisations to ensure the future sustainability of all our services.
Thank you for thinking about being an important part of #TeamIOWNHS, I hope we get to work together in the future.
Steve Parker, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Medical Director
Partnership Working
Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, with the backdrop of a long history of working together, entered into an Acute Services Partnership in 2020 to address the clinical and financial sustainability of small and fragile hospital services on the Isle of Wight. Since its creation, the Partnership has delivered improvements in services on the Island including Stroke, Cardiology, and Urology. Bringing the two organisations closer together will mean they can better respond to the challenges facing the NHS and the changing needs of the people they serve.
Both Boards recognise that working together provides the best opportunity to achieve this.
We are working together to develop formal partnerships and as part of these developments it is envisaged that rotational job opportunities will become available in the near future, further enhancing leadership and other areas of career development.
There are close links with both Portsmouth and Southampton Universities and successful applicants are encouraged to involve themselves with all aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate medical training. Honorary Senior Lectureships are available and encouraged.
All partners are ambitious for the Isle of Wight and want to ensure that Islanders, as well as those visiting the Island, receive the best possible care and health outcomes.
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Integrated Care System
The central and evolving role of the Integrated Care System (ICS) has been to support the local place-based plans to achieve the changes that local people and local clinicians have told us they want.
The plan does not replace or slow down local transformation programmes. Instead, organisations have come together to do the things that can only be achieved by working in partnership. We have learned a great deal from working with and listening to local people over the past few years and this plan is rooted in these local discussions. Working together also allows us to better share best practice and ensure we are coordinated when we make local changes.
The challenges we face are not unique to our area. In fact, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight was one of 44 areas across England that were developing detailed local transformation and sustainability plans (STPs) to find ways of solving them. This work is now being taken forward by the ICS alongside island place-based plans for an Integrated Care Partnership with local authority.
Education, Training and Research
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is a research active trust with a small R&D Department who work with NIHR/CRN Wessex in promoting, supporting and undertaking research activity.
The Care Group Director will have a key role in promoting and supporting appropriate research with the clinicians in their directorates, ensuring that there is leadership for research and development in the services and that clinical practice is evidence-based and effective.
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is committed to the development and training of all employees.
Based in the Education Centre; the Learning and Development, Clinical Education, Leadership Development and Library & Knowledge Services teams work together to support staff in their job roles and career progression.
We provide and co-ordinate internal and external training, for clinical and non-clinical staff, facilitate team and personal development and provide 24/7 library access to knowledge resources.
The Academic Skills suite offers a dedicated area for health care professionals to develop necessary skills.
Resources available within the Academic Skills Suite include a simulation manikin, Virtual Reality Simulation equipment along with a laparoscopic trainer.
"Simulation is a technique, not a technology, to replace or amplify real experiences with guided experiences that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner (D.Gaba, 2004). It has a very important place in adult learning by creating real life experience, reflection and conceptualisation (Kolb, 1976). It is the most useful tool for training of softer skills (non-technical skills, human factors). ‘Human Factors in Healthcare’ Concordat from NHS England (2013) and ‘Improving Safety through Education and Training report’ (2016) from Health Education England strongly recommend use of simulation based training to improve patient safety."
Postgraduate Doctors In Training:
St Mary’s offers a great mix of clinical experience and a strong culture to support education, which like those before you, we hope you will benefit from, and enjoy. Please make full use of the Education Centre, it is your resource and houses a very supportive team of professionals who are always happy to help. There is also an extensive library and clinical training rooms to aid your professional development.
We greatly value the hard work and dedication of all our training doctors. You are an important part of our staff and we want to hear of your experiences during your time at the Isle of Wight. As such please find the time to attend our Postgraduate Doctor Forums and feedback to the Local Faculty Group meetings. This will allow us to continue improving our quality standards.
As part of your training support, you will be allocated an Educational Supervisor for the period of your employment at the trust. They will oversee your training to ensure you are making the necessary progress. You should meet with your Educational Supervisor as soon as possible to develop and agree a learning agreement, and arrange regular meetings documented in your eportfolio throughout the course of your time here.
You will also have a Clinical Supervisor for each rotation you have at St Marys Hospital.
Medical Work Experience:
Clinical Attachments
Clinical attachments are non-paid placements requested by qualified doctors, usually from overseas who are looking for some work experience in this country. Placements are usually 4 weeks and doctors generally request a specific department. For more information, please contact the Medical education Team.
Student Electives
Student Electives are 4 week placements requested by medical students, from either overseas or from UK medical schools (not including Southampton). For more information, please contact the Medical Education Team.
A Level Students - The Hospital Experience Course.
The Hospital Experience Course is a two day course aimed at Year 12 students thinking of applying to medical school. To be considered for this course, students must be studying the required subjects at A level. The course consists one day spent in Surgery, at which time there may be an opportunity to go to the operating theatre and the other day in Medicine shadowing a Junior Doctor on the wards. For more information, please contact the Medical Education team (Kate Hyde: Deputy Medical Education Manager, kate.hyde3@nhs.net).
For any enquiries on Medical recruitment please contact: iownt.medicalhr@nhs.net
Our Objectives
To deliver our strategy and the improvement in services that we all want to see it is important that we set clear objectives. The 4Ps (Performance, People, Partnerships, Place) describe what our organisation wants to achieve and what success will look like for our community, staff and patients.
Our Strategic Ambitions
Having a strategy is important because it sets out where our organisation is heading, what we want to achieve, why and how we will do it. We will improve the health and wellbeing of people who use our services, our staff and our Island community. Our strategy sets out how we will work together, with our partners and with our community, to improve and join up health and care services.
Our strategy will guide how we set our priorities each year and it will help our teams to plan and take decisions. It responds to the changing needs of local people and national priorities, including the NHS Long Term Plan. For us to succeed we need to do things differently
