Final quiz lunch before Christmas- Ellena Farrow testing everyone’s Reindeer knowledge and Lucy J providing some exceptional baked goods again 😋 Merry Christmas from the Acute Medicine Therapy Team 🎅🏻🎄

Lots of goodbyes yesterday- our wonderful B5s Ella & Lucy J (PT) and Karen (OT) rotate, & we say goodbye to Charlotte who heads off to the Community Healthcare Hub to start her physio post there. Thank you all for your hard work & good luck. We had 1 final games lunch🥳

📣CALLING ALL CURRENT AND PROSPECTIVE OT’s📣 ✅ Major Trauma Centre ✅Specialist IST opportunities ✅Weekly cake rota* ✅10/10 colleague sense of humour Plus all below! *Rotation dependent, but opportunity to create your own as service development🤭 lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/join-our-workf…

Todays team activity was Elephant donut frenzy. There were only 2 prizes but if there had been more, winners would have included - Most donuts hooked: Kurian - Most Chaotic: Rachel & Joe - Elephant most fearful for their life: Christine - Best technique: Kwai Fun all round!😅

Today Taz took the leap from senior therapy assistant to OT apprentice. We are so excited to be on this journey with you! The uniform looks good on you girrrlll 💁🏼‍♀️

On Friday we said goodbye to Rachel. We’ve loved having you as part of our team. You are hard working, flexible and an excellent team player. Surgery will be lucky to have you 🥰

Welcome to the team 🥰

This week we played twister for our team building exercise. Alex fell over moments after this picture was taken. Shout out to Dean in the back, silently judging us all 😂

🚨Do you function well in a crisis? 🚨High pressure environments help you thrive? Good, because you have 24 hours to get your Band 5 Physiotherapist applications in before the closing date so you better get typing! Closes Tuesday 23:59 - don’t miss out! lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/join-our-workf…

Everyone’s favourite day, when the ice cream van comes to work 🍦😍

If you need us we’ll just be reading our OT Charlottes publication in BJOT. Could not be prouder to have you in our team. What a superstar ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Have a read here… rb.gy/i6rk0

Fab day today meeting our new physiotherapist’s on day one of the on-call training. Learning about tracheostomies, airways, suction,cough assist, bird, ABG’s and CXR’s 🫁🩺. Medical Therapies CDH Critical Therapy RPH Neurosciences Therapy Team RPH Cath Edwards

Yesterdays Thursday Fun and wishing Taylor the best on her next band 6 rotation. We will miss you xx

📣Calling all Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, present and future! 🧠Pick up some top tips from our application and interview skills workshop. 💙💚Meet our fantastic teams to find out why you should put your new skills into practice!

Fab Thursday fun over the last few weeks. Halloween theme 🎃👻 and balloon animal making 🎈🐶 😃

📣 Tracheostomy Specialist Practice Educator 📣 Thrilled to announce our service expansion as we look to welcome a passionate individual to support with education + training provision to pts, carers, families and clinicians across Lancs + S.Cumbria nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Lancash…

We need each other more than ever 💕🌎 Join us for Friendly February and take action to boost your relationships and be a good friend to others actionforhappiness.org/friendly-febru… #FriendlyFebruary

What’s this? A rare and exciting opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to work with… ME 💁🏼‍♀️ what more could you want? Click the link ➡️ rb.gy/46kqfo

Does avoiding hospital admissions make you happy? Is excellent frailty care your specialist subject? We have an opportunity for a Clinical Lead OT in our brand new and shiny acute assessment and frailty therapy team. Have a look ➡️ tinyurl.com/3njd3sj5

This week’s Thursday Fun was provided by Akin and Mike. The team got to taste some classic dishes from Ghana and Nigeria cooked by our very own chefs!