Cydraddoldeb, Amrywiaeth a Chynhwysiant
Fe wnaethom siarad â mwy na 6,000 o staff, cleifion, eu teuluoedd a’u gofalwyr a gyda’n gilydd fe wnaethom ddatblygu ein gwerthoedd.
Mae ein gwerthoedd yn dangos bod ein hymrwymiad i gydraddoldeb wrth wraidd popeth a wnawn.
Mae cydraddoldeb yn ymwneud â sicrhau bod pobl yn cael eu trin yn deg. Nid yw’n ymwneud â thrin pawb yr un fath ond gweld pobl fel unigolion a chydnabod bod anghenion pawb yn cael eu diwallu mewn gwahanol ffyrdd. Mae rhaid i ni fod yn sensitif, meddylgar a hyblyg o ran sut maen nhw’n diwallu anghenion bob person.
Mae yn gwneud y peth iawn i bob person ac yn trin pawb ag urddas a pharch. Mae bIPBA yn diogelu urddas a phreifatrwydd pobl ac yn gweithredu pan fyddant yn gweld bod y rhain yn cael eu tanseilio.
Gofalu am ein Gilydd ym mhob cyswllt dynol ym mhob un o’n cymunedau a’n hysbytai.
Datblygwyd ein hamcanion cydraddoldeb trwy gydweithio â’n partneriaid. Gwnaethom ymgysylltu â phobl o wahanol grwpiau, gan feithrin cysylltiadau da. Mae’r amcanion wedi’u cynllunio i sicrhau bod gwasanaethau BIPBA yn hygyrch i bawb, ac mae arferion cyflogaeth BIPBA yn deg.
Rydyn ni eisiau bod yn gynhwysol ac yn gwella bob amser. Byddwn yn hyrwyddo cydraddoldeb a hawliau dynol i bawb. Ni fyddwn yn derbyn unrhyw un sydd dan anfantais oherwydd unrhyw un o’r canlynol:
- Oedran
- Anabledd
- Ffydd neu gred
- Rhywedd
- Beichiogrwydd neu famolaeth
- Hil
- Cyfeiriadedd rhywiol
- Yn briod neu mewn bartneriaeth sifil
- Ailbennu Rhywedd.
Cydraddoldeb
Rydym wedi ymrwymo i’ch trin yn deg
Mae ein hamcanion cydraddoldeb wedi’u datblygu i’n cefnogi i gyflawni’r ymrwymiad hwn. Ni ddylid rhoi pobl dan anfantais oherwydd eu hoedran, anabledd, crefydd a chred, rhyw, hil, cyfeiriadedd rhywiol, hunaniaeth rhywedd, beichiogrwydd a mamolaeth neu oherwydd eu bod yn briod neu mewn partneriaeth sifil.
Fe wnaethom adnewyddu ein Hamcanion Cydraddoldeb gan ddefnyddio adborth o ymgysylltu ac ymgynghori yn ogystal â thystiolaeth arall. Roedd hyn yn cynnwys y sylfaen dystiolaeth gref o fewn ‘A yw Cymru’n Decach’ (Comisiwn Cydraddolden a Hawliau Dynol, 2018). Mae ein hamcanion cydraddoldeb wedi’u cynnwys yn ein Cynllun Cydraddoldeb Strategol.
Mae ein Hamcanion Cydraddoldeb yn cael eu hadlewyrchu yn ein Cynllun Blynyddol ac yn cefnogi’r gwaith o gyflawni eu nodau. Rydym yn adrodd am gynnydd yn erbyn ein Hamcanion Cydraddoldeb yn ein Hadroddiadau Cydraddoldeb Blynyddol.
Mae nyrs o Fae Abertawe a helpodd i gerfio llwybr i’w chydweithwyr BAME wedi cael ei henwebu am wobr uchaf
Mae Omobola Akinade wedi rhoi’r gorau i’w hamser hamdden – yn aml yn ystod y nos – gan helpu i osod y sylfeini i staff Du, Asiaidd a lleiafrifoedd ethnig eraill (BAME) symud ymlaen.
Mae’r nyrs datblygu practis wedi bod yn fodel rôl i staff BAME ar draws y bwrdd iechyd ers cyrraedd yma o Nigeria 18 mlynedd yn ôl.
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The practice development nurse team’s (from left) Julie Barnes, Emelda Lunga, Susan Mhlahleli, Omobola, Titilope Babatunde and Karen Williams.
She has spoken up against racism in the workplace, helped higher-level positions become more diverse and been an instrumental figure for overseas nurses who have left home to work in Swansea Bay.
Her impact has led to not only nominations for awards within the health board, but also a national organisation which celebrates the leadership achievements of BAME staff.
Omobola arrived in Swansea in 2005, initially without her family, but now calls the city home.
Since progressing from a nurse to teaching the newest cohort of international nurses, she is now helping colleagues who are in the same position as she found herself when she first stepped foot in Swansea.
Her desire to help colleagues develop and progress within the health board is highlighted via a quality improvement project she created to ensure more BAME colleagues were applying for higher-level opportunities.
Such is her passion, part of the project’s work saw her voluntarily visit colleagues during night shifts to discuss how they could progress in their field.
Omobola said: “I want us to retain staff who have quality in care and can improve us as a health board.
“It’s something I am very passionate about, and after being accepted onto the Florence Nightingale Foundation Windrush Nurses and Midwives Leadership Programme, I developed a quality improvement project.
“It was about fair representation of BAME colleagues in high positions in Swansea Bay. It came from the experiences I’ve had in the health board in 2005.
Omobola and her practice development nurse colleagues pictured in the nurse education centre in Baglan, where they prepare overseas nurses before they go onto work within the health board’s hospitals.
“I sent questionnaires to recruiters and nurses to know their opinion on things. The majority of BAME nurses were unhappy that they’d been in one position for a long time, but some of them felt they should have had the promotion without applying because of their experience. Some felt there wasn’t any point in applying.
“I wanted to change their minds, and I didn’t want them to pass their way of thinking onto people coming after them.
“I did it for the first time in Singleton and saw the progress and change of people’s mindsets – they were applying for positions and progressed.
“So I rolled it out to Morriston, and it went very positively.
“I went around the wards, sometimes in the middle of the night, in Morriston to speak to staff one-on-one to share my experience and to listen to their thoughts.
“As I’m based in Baglan training our overseas nurses, I’d go home for a bit after my shift and then go to Morriston to speak to staff that night. If I had to wait for them to finish their medical rounds then I’d do that. It’s that important to me.
“I also set up a BAME leadership seminar, which had around 70 people in it, while people logged in from Neath Port Talbot Hospital to watch it.
“My project looked at a timeline comparing BAME staff to the rest of the workforce, and there was a major disparity in high-level appointments but that has since changed, which I’m really pleased about.”
Her work has been recognised by the National BAME Health and Care Awards, with Omobola nominated for the Compassionate and Inclusive Leader category.
Sharron Price, Interim Group Nurse Director of Neath Port Talbot and Singleton Service Group, nominated Omobola for the award.
She said: “I nominated her for the work she has done and leadership she shows not only to our BAME nurses but to our profession as a whole.
“She is a role model and inspiration to those around her, and is using her voice to encourage, support and develop our global majority nurses.
“We look forward to continue seeing Omobola develop and lead. As her colleague, we love working with and learning from her.”
Omobola has been nominated for two awards in September.
Omobola is also responsible for changing the way racism in the workplace has been dealt with and recorded.
After experiencing racist abuse from a patient in 2021, she took a stand and became a champion of equality at work.
To improve the way in which the matter was dealt with, staff and management were trained further while posters were placed around wards discouraging racist behaviour.
Her efforts have led to further internal recognition, with Omobola nominated in the Excellence in Equality & Inclusion category in the health board’s Living Our Values Awards at Swansea Arena in September.
Omobola added: “I feel so honoured and grateful to be nominated for the two awards.
“Knowing that what I’ve done and continue to do has been recognised is helping people is really pleasing.
“I arrived from Nigeria on my own and it was a scary move, but I love it here and so do my family.
“I’ve been able to progress and develop my own skills, and now I am having the chance to help people who were in the same position I was in.
“When I arrived, I didn’t feel that I had anyone that looked like me who I could speak to.
“Now I can help people in that situation, particularly in my role training the overseas nurses.
“I get staff contacting me to speak about a range of subjects, and it’s something I love to do. Until you’re in that situation, where you’ve moved country and left your family behind for a while, you can’t fully understand how difficult it can be settling into a new country, a new job, a new life.
“But I’m here to help them in any way I can.”
Balchder yng nghyfeiriad Calon i arddangosfa hanes LHDTQ+ yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol
Mae Calon Bae Abertawe wedi dod yn un o’r rhwydweithiau staff cyntaf i gael eu cynnwys mewn arddangosfa genedlaethol o hanes LHDTC+ Cymru yn Amgueddfa Cymru.
Mae’r sefydliad LGBTQ+ a’r Cynghreiriaid – Calon – wedi cyfrannu eitemau i gasgliad LGBTQ+ yr amgueddfa yn Amgueddfa Werin Cymru Sain Ffagan, y mae ei chasgliad yn cynnwys ffotograffau, dogfennau, gwrthrychau a hanesion llafar sy’n cynrychioli pob agwedd ar hanes LHDTC+ Cymru.
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Mark Etheridge, curator responsible for the museum’s LGBTQ+ history, said: “As well as items relating to historic figures such as the Ladies of Llangollen and Ivor Novello, there are objects covering activisim and Pride events, and items representing the everyday lives of LGBTQ+ people in Wales.”
Calon was launched in 2015 by a group of staff who wanted to provide support to colleagues and service users from the LGBT+ community.
Robert Workman of Calon, who is also deputy head of Occupational Therapy, said: “We are very happy to contribute to this collection as we feel that the role of staff networks, as self-organised groups, demonstrates how individuals take positive action to continue to highlight the need for increased equity, diversity and belonging in our services and communities.
“We have already donated a Calon lanyard and a t-shirt that NHS Wales staff wore at Pride Cymru in 2018 that marked the 70th anniversary of the NHS. We are now also donating another t-shirt that was worn in the Pride Cymru parade in 2022 as well as this year, the 75th anniversary year.
“Although Calon has donated the shirts, it’s important to acknowledge that these were coordinated across other NHS organisations with NHS Wales working as a whole unit in the parade. “Inclusion of these items in this important collection demonstrates the solidarity of the LGBT+ community as well as our NHS family across Wales.
“It is my hope that other staff networks also donate items to continue to grow this collection and truly represent the LGBT+ history of Wales.”
Some of the objects from the LGBTQ+ collection are showcased in the ‘Wales is…Proud’ display at St Fagans, with the theme of ‘protest and pride’. It is accompanied by ‘Wales is…remembering Terrence Higgins’. In 1982 Terry Higgins, who was born in Pembrokeshire, was one of the first people in the UK to die of an AIDS related illness. He lends his name to the Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK’s leading HIV and sexual health charity. Both these displays are on until 31 December 2023.
A further exhibition at St Fagans – the Voices of the Red Wall includes a flag from The Rainbow Wall – the Welsh football teams first LGBTQ+ Supporters Group.
The whole of the LGBTQ+ collection can be viewed online on Amgueddfa Cymru’s Collections Online catalogue.
Yn uchel ac yn falch yn Pride Abertawe
Roeddwn wrth fy modd yn gweld pa mor dda oedd ein bwrdd iechyd yn nigwyddiad Pride Abertawe ddydd Sadwrn.
Mae mor bwysig i ni danlinellu ein hymrwymiad i fod yn sefydliad gwirioneddol gynhwysol i’n holl weithwyr, cleifion a chymunedau.
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And it was also fantastic to see our teams not only marching in solidarity with members of the LGBT+ community, along with allies and colleagues from other health boards, but also great to note a number of our services took the opportunity to engage with participants by organising information stalls, sharing details of some of the support we offer, including a stall run by our brilliant Calon LGBT+ and Allies staff network.
Connecting directly with our communities in this way, in addition to networking with other organisations, is really invaluable. So my thanks to all who went along to represent us and help make a fantastic event even better.