To provide guidance and instruction on how to develop a safe work practice and responsibilities with regard to safe work practices

To provide guidance to staff for the safety and well being of paediatric patients in SCHN hospitals.

To provide clear instructions for WHS incident management documentation (via Iims+) and the requirements to notify SafeWork NSW

• Understand the procedure for when employees are separating from Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN). • Ensure employees and managers are aware of the documentation required, notice periods, and responsibilities when facilitating the separation of an employee from SCHN. • Aware of the various types of ‘separation’ and associated NSW Health Policies.

• Provide managers and employees with information about sick leave entitlements. • Provide managers and employees with the process for managing unsatisfactory sick leave. • Provide managers with sick leave management procedures to be applied consistently, fairly and in a supportive way to all employees. • Provide templates to support managers when managing unsatisfactory sick leave. • This document should be read in conjunction with the NSW Health Policy Directive PD2018_036 Leave Matters for the NSW Health Service and relevant industrial instruments and legislation.

To implement the NSW Health Department Smoke Free Workplace Policy, limit exposure to staff, visitors and patients and promote the Hospitals as being smoke-free facilities.

To provide guidance in the use of social media platforms

To provide information about the OnCall service provided by the Social Work Department including the criteria for call backs.

To assist managers in the maintenance of the staff establishment for the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) and to outline the required approval process to alter a department’s staffing profile in accordance with the processes, business guidelines and decision points for different scenarios

Allocation of staff parking

Guide clinicians in the appropriate use of developmental assessments

To provide a procedure for the safe storage, handling and transportation of medical gases

To provide an overview of the governance and processes for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking a clinical placement within an SCHN facility. This policy reflects the local implementation of the Clinical Placements in NSW Health PD 2022_049

This document provides definitions of legal words and phrases, outlines legal processes and proceedings that can involve the Hospital, explains what staff should do when faced with a Summons, a Subpoena or a Statement of Claim, explains Indemnity, and outlines support and counselling mechanisms for staff who become involved in legal proceedings.

To outline the support available to staff who are carers

This document will provide a framework for considering fundraising requests and initiatives of other charities within the Hospital. This will enable staff assess the appropriateness of supporting other charities in their department or area of work and also the appropriate level of support.