• Submissions to the Institute for Apprenticeships - November 2018
  
• Improvement Specialist - Approved for delivery
• Learning and Skills Teacher - Assessment Plan published
• Library, Information and Archive Services Assistant - Standard published
• Regulatory Affairs Specialist (Healthcare/Veterinary) - Approved for delivery
• Research Scientist - Standard published
• The digital apprenticeship service - HEE common issues guide
• Advanced Clinical Practice in England - Final report
• Consultations closing soon, last chance to have your say
  - District Nurse
  - Orthodontic Therapist

Tip of the week:

• Guide for employers - Achieving the benefits of apprenticeships

Quick links:

• Institute for Apprenticeships How to Guide for Trailblazers
• Trailblazer Guide for Employers
• Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers
• Register of Apprenticeship Assessment Organisations
• The levy
  

For more information, contact the Trust's Apprenticeship Lead
v.kearney1@nhs.net or call Ext 6796

NHS Improvement has produced draft guidance on safe staffing management for nursing associates. Employers are invited to submit feedback on the draft document by Wednesday 12 December 2018.

NHS Improvement intends to publish this guidance as an appendix to the set of safe staffing resources already available. This is to provide healthcare professionals and others with the tools to ensure they can safely and effectively integrate the nursing associate role into hospital and community care settings.

The resource has been drafted with input from senior nurses, clinicians, workforce colleagues and regulatory and government organisations including the Department of Health and Social Care and the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

To view the staff staffing draft document and the consultation please visit the NHS Improvement website.

Have your say on the draft guidance
If you would like to share your thoughts with NHS Employers, please email Robyn.Swain@nhsemployers.org by Monday 3rd December 2018. Alternatively, you can submit your individual responses directly to NHS Improvement by Wednesday 12 December 2018.

Listen to Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, speaking to Helen Bogan, programme lead for health and wellbeing at NHS Employers, about the importance of mental health in the workplace. They discuss Paul's presentation to delegates at the NHS Confederation's 2018 annual conference, where he spoke about mental health being everyone's business. 
Download now for a range of actions that employers can take to improve staff mental health and help NHS employees thrive at work. 
This podcast also includes top tips on promoting good mental health as part of a successful health and wellbeing strategy.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new Talking Toolkit to help employers prevent work related stress. 
Developed to mark National Stress Awareness Day the toolkit encourages conversations between managers and employees about the causes of work related stress. Six conversation templates have been designed to support managers and employees to talk about issues which may be causing work related stress or which could have potential to become future causes if not managed properly.

Not only does the law require employers to tackle work related stress, taking action on stress has positive benefits for an organisation including, reducing sickness absence, boosting morale and helping to improve productivity.
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To start a conversation download the Talking Toolkit.

You can find more information on supporting staff with stress in the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partnership Groups guidance on the prevention and management of stress in the workplace and our free emotional wellbeing toolkit.

​* Credits NHS Employers 

​08-11-2018

• Prosthetist and Orthotist (Degree) - Approved for delivery
• Prosthetic and Orthotic Technician - Approved for delivery
• Podiatrist (Degree) standard and EPA re-published
• Consultations open on draft standards for:
  - District Nurse 
  - Nursing Associate
  - Orthodontic Therapist
  - Speech and Language Therapist
• Submissions to the IfA this week for:
  - Arts Therapist (Degree) - EPA
  - Clinical Academic Professional (Degree) - Proposal
  - Clinical Associate Psychologist - Proposal
  - Clinical Coder - EPA
  - Dental Technician - EPA
  - Dietitian (Degree) - Standard
  - Oral Health Practitioner - EPA
  - Registered Nurse (NMC 2018) - EPA​

Tip of the week:

• Last chance to vote for your Health Hero Apprentice of the year - closes today! Click here.

Quick links:

• Status of Standards being facilitated by Skills for Health
• Institute for Apprenticeships How to Guide for Trailblazers
• Trailblazer Guide for Employers
• Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers
• Register of Apprenticeship Assessment Organisations
• The levy

Evening of short lectures and practical workshops covering emergencies of ENT

Wondering how you’ll cope with your first ENT emergency on call? Want to know a little more about common ENT problems?
Join us for an evening of lectures and hands on practical workshops covering common ENT presentations and emergencies, from current ENT trainees. Learn how to manage blocked tracheostomies, pack a bleeding nose, drain a quinsy and perform flexible nasoendoscopy. Open to all trainee levels.

Read more here

Human Factors Train the Trainer
Apply Now – December 2018 – February 2019

Do you have knowledge of human factors approaches? Could you help train others within your organisation?
Then this opportunity might be for you!

This five-day programme is designed to help organisations spread knowledge and awareness of human factors, by training individuals to deliver their own introductory-level HF programmes across the organisation.

Attendees will gain an advanced understanding of HF methods and learn the principles, knowledge and approaches for delivery.

This is ideal for those with existing knowledge of human factors, and is open to small teams within an organisation, possibly made up of team leaders, quality / safety leads, nursing and system leaders.

For more information, please visit our website or contact Peter.Ledwith@srft.nhs.uk.

Doing the Do – What Does it Mean to Lead Across a System?
Friday 7 December 2018, Manchester

At this event we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the common themes, behaviours and skills for effect system leadership in health and care, alongside partners NHS Mersey Internal Audit Agency (MIAA), NHS North West Leadership Academy, and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) North West.

We’ll be hearing from three exciting leaders on what leadership means to them, including:

• Jim Mackey, Chief Executive, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Elaine Mead, Chief Executive, NHS Highland
• Faye Selvan, Chief Executive, The Big Life Group

This event is ideal for those leading across health and care, the event will give them the opportunity share and reflect on their own leadership journey and the challenges that come with it.

For more information or to book your place, please visit our website.

Mortality Improvement Community – Practical Steps for Mortality Reviews
Final Places Available – 13 December, Haydock

Part of our ongoing Mortality Improvement Community, this event will look at the practical steps staff working in mortality care can take during reviews, and how we can use learning to improve outcomes.

We’ll also be exploring the Structured Judgement Review (SJR) and how this can be undertaken across the whole health and care system. Book your place here.