NMC to amend English language test requirements for applicants trained outside the UK

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is amending the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) requirements for nurses and midwives coming on to the register from overseas and within the European Economic Area. These changes will increase flexibility for applicants and ensure the appropriate standard of English language is still achieved.     

Dear Colleague,
I hope you are well.
I wanted to draw to your attention a really exciting opportunity to join North West Employers. We are looking for a unique, talented and highly motivated individual to join our energetic team committed to supporting our member organisations and their partners navigate and thrive during these changing and challenging times across the public sector.
As part of our small management team the successful candidate will lead our commercial activities, including having the responsibility for business development and income generation activity. With the Commercial team they will drive business growth including developing new markets and development services resulting in overall growth for North West Employers in terms of commercial activity.  In addition, the current portfolio includes responsibility for a range of leadership and skills development and tailored consultancy services giving you the opportunity to use your excellent development and facilitation skills.
We are looking for someone to really join us head and heart and be part of the team. If you like a lot of flexibility, being at the leading edge of the changes and challenges across the public sector, are talented, organised, self-motivated and can demonstrate effective leadership and programme management skills to support the effective achievement of a commercial income target, then come and talk to us about this exciting new role.
For more details including the Job Role, Person Specification, additional information and the application form, please CLICK HERE.
Please note: Closing date for applications is 12 noon on 14 July 2016.
Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested. We really look forward to hearing from you!
Very best regards
Liz
Liz McQue
Chief Executive
North West Employers

T.  0161 214 7123
T.  @NWEmployers
 

Please click on the link to information and online application for our three day Introduction to Workforce Planning courses which will run  from our West London campus from 20, 21, 22 September 2016 and our Reading campus from 13, 14, 15 February 2017. 
Introduction to workforce planning: http://www.uwl.ac.uk/academic-schools/nursing-midwifery/continuing-professional-development/cpd-courses/cpds/introducti-2
 
This course, which is delivered by Andy Knapton, formerly of Workforce Review Team (WRP) and Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI), offers an excellent grounding in basic concepts and resources and will be of particular interest to clinicians, OD leads and HR staff with limited experience of healthcare workforce planning.  We will be using a number of primary care datasets so the workshops will be relevant to CCG/GPS, practice nurses and practice managers. 
 
Dr Deirdre Kelley-Patterson
Centre for the Study of Policy and Practice in Health and Social Care
University of West London
 
0208 209 4133

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Dear Tracy
                             
Welcome to our latest edition of Leader!
 
Click here where you'll find all the information you need on our latest leadership programmes and offers in the North West.

      In this edition:

• How Inclusive Are You?
• Time to Think – Very Senior Leaders Forum
• i2i: Impact to inspire and influence
• The Alaskan ‘Nuka’ Healthcare System comes to the North West 
  

Dear Trainees and Trainers,

Thank you for completing the Serious Incident (SI) experience and management questionnaire.

I am an ST6 in Respiratory Medicine currently working as a Medical Education Fellow for North West London Local office. One of my tasks is to evaluate the SI management process and subsequent experience across Health Education England (HEE). This project aims to help generate a more standardised and transparent approach for SI management where trainees are involved with an emphasis on maximising education and training opportunities. We know that currently there is often inconsistency generated by variation in local policies, local interpretations, perceptions of what constitutes an SI and what constitutes appropriate methods of escalation.

Through this questionnaire we hope to gain insight into current experiences of postgraduate medical trainees in adverse event management across England. The vision is to use feedback from questionnaires circulated across trainees and trainers from all of HEE’s 13 local offices to gauge similarity and diversity in actual experience, for both the trainee and their trainer.

The greater the number of responders the more useful the feedback and as such your participation is greatly appreciated. Any feedback will be anonymised aside which area the feedback was received from.

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has published Fair care for trans people: an RCN guide for nursing and health care professionals.  This resource is designed to help nursing and care staff to respond to the needs of patients and clients who identify as ‘transgender’.  The nursing community can, through its professional actions and interests, work to eliminate and significantly reduce prejudice and discrimination at both an individual and a societal level in partnership with a range of organisations, including those that represent the needs of trans people.

We have developed a range of information and tools to support you to train your staff in end-of-life care.
On our new end-of-life care web pages you’ll find:

• an overview of end-of-life care – where the strategy has come from and what work has been done so far nationally
• benefits of investing in training- including how it can build a skilled workforce for the future, help to meet business needs, and support local and national agendas
• case studies from NHS organisations committed to investing in end-of-life care training
• a comprehensive list of e-learning resources and training programmes that can be accessed to support with end-of-life care education and training
• tools to implement an end-of-life care strategy in your organisation.
  

We will be regularly updating these web pages with new resources in the coming weeks.

A social media campaign kickstarted by NHS Employers to show appreciation for EU staff in the NHS, has been warmly received across the NHS and gained national media coverage over the weekend.

Using the hashtag #LoveOurEUstaff, our chief executive Danny Mortimer encouraged the NHS workforce to ensure that our staff from elsewhere in the EU know that they are valued and welcome, to help allay any concerns that might have been brought by the public vote to leave the EU. 
The campaign gathered momentum rapidly after the first tweet on Friday afternoon (24 June), and was soon trending on Twitter.
Between Friday and Monday the story was featured in the Evening Standard, Metro and on Buzzfeed.
See what people are saying and join the conversation on Twitter #LoveOurEUStaff