Workforce Hub

03/06/2026

☀️🎉Recovery Connections Summer Festival🎉☀️

Pop along and meet your local services, plus there will be:
🎶Live entertainment
🍔Food stalls
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Fun for the family

Festival details:
📅Friday 3rd July
⏰10am-3pm
📍Baltic Square

03/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 June is Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

Pride Month 2026 celebrates LGBTQIA+ identity, history, and equality

GP surgeries and healthcare settings play a vital role in the wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ people, often being one of the first points of contact for those seeking help or reassurance.

Switchboard is a trusted signpost for LGBTQIA+ patients and staff, connecting them to a service that listens, understands and supports without judgement ⤵️

12/05/2026

Today we celebrate the compassion, strength and dedication of nurses everywhere. 💙

Thank you to every nurse who shows up with kindness, care and resilience every single day 💙 Making a difference in ways both big and small 💙 Thank you for the skill, warmth and love you bring to healthcare every day.

Happy International Nurses Day! 🌍🩺

07/05/2026

Taking place on Wednesday 3 June 2026, Making Every Contact Count: Where are your opportunities? is a free, full-day conference delivered in collaboration with Northumbria University and supported by North East and North Cumbria NHS. 🗓️🤝 The event will be held at the Business and Law Building, City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle. 🏫📍

We are delighted to share an exciting regional event that brings together people from across health, care, local authority, education and voluntary sectors to explore how we can all make a difference

16/04/2026

🤩🎓 That’s a wrap for April’s Youth Academy 🎓🤩

It’s been an amazing, fun packed week with another lovely group of young people 🥰

This morning we had another brilliant session with NEAS Paramedics and got to have a look around their ambulance 🚑

We then had Gordon from Red Cross delivering an interesting, interactive session on Empathy plus Migration ⛑️

A huge thank you to all of the young people who attended, the guest speakers for volunteering your time to inspire and educate, to Gateshead Council for allowing us to use your building and to NENC ICB for sponsoring the event 👏

15/04/2026

Thats our third day complete, one more to go 👏

Our young people have a had a very fun, interactive day 😃

St. John’s ambulance delivered a brilliant street first aid session 🫀😮‍💨

Caitlin kindley shared how she became a Nurse Associate and showed us how to take blood pressure 🩺💉

Age UK delivered a session on dementia awareness and used VR headsets to allow us to experience what’s it’s like to have to dementia 🧠👴

14/04/2026

Day 2 done ✅👌

This morning our young people learned about apprenticeships with Gateshead Council Learning and Skills, HIV awareness with Blue Sky Trust and what a Tissue Technical Specialist does with Roche.

The day ended with a fun and interactive session with Change Grow Live. They delivered a session on how they support with drug and alcohol abuse.

13/04/2026

🎓🤩Gateshead Health & Care Youth Academy is back🤩🎓

Today we welcomed a new group of young people from Gateshead who have an interest in careers in the health and care sector.

Sophie, PCN Nurse for Central South Gateshead, kicked the week off with a fantastic Women’s Health session followed by a brilliant interactive session with our Pharmicus colleagues, Kayleigh & Caroline.

Let’s see what the rest of the week brings 🩸🔬💊💉🩺🧠🚑⛑️

24/03/2026

🚭Ready to quit smoking? We’re here to help — for FREE!🚭

Quitting smoking is one of the best things you can do for your health, and you don’t have to do it alone. Our free stop smoking service offers support, tools, and guidance to help you every step of the way.

🫶Take the first step today — your future self will thank you🫶

Our Smoking Cessation Clinics:
👉Weekdays - The Bede Centre, Felling
👉Saturdays - QE Hospital, Gateshead

📞Call 0191 445 5860 to book your first appointment, or your GP can book in direct📞

This service is open to all Gateshead residents.

12/03/2026

💉🩺The Workforce Hub Team delivered another 3-day New to Practice HCA course this week packed with theory and practical sessions aimed at staff starting their career as a HCA🩺💉

⭐Well done to our Educational Lead, Lucy, for continuing to receive 5-star feedback⭐