We are always learning
We want to support you with your ongoing development of the knowledge, skills and behaviours that will create an NHS where opportunities for learning and developing are plentiful, and we are all supported to reach our potential. We want to make sure that all our NHS people have equal access to learning and developing opportunities. We believe that such a workplace would attract, develop and retain talented people from all backgrounds.
Health Education England (HEE) funds education and training for the development of the future workforce. HEE leads on investment in training places for priority areas such as mental health, nursing and cancer and return to practice programmes for the development of the future workforce – these are just some of the HEE collaborative initiatives outlined in the ‘We are the NHS: The People Plan for 2020/21’.
Learning and development success stories
You may find these useful when thinking about how to improve practices in your workplace.
- How implementing CLEAR revolutionised senior nurse’s thinking
- Clinical Pharmacy and Paramedics in primary care – case study
- Widening Access to Specialty Training (WAST) international recruitment scheme 2019-2020 expansion pilot
- Self-development time case study: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Diabetic retinopathy – case study
- Future You’ –An Alternative Pathway into Nursing , Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (login to NHS Futures platform required).
Further reading
- Creating a sustainable career pathway
- Developing an education pathway for newly registered practitioners
- Developing healthcare support worker roles — a nursing career solution
- Pinching with pride — the chief nurse junior fellowship
- Improving midwifery preceptorship with a midwifery development pathway
- Reducing Pre-registration Attrition and Improving Retention
What initiatives can I take forward now?
Executive Suite: This executive suite comprises a range of flexible offers to support you as an executive leader and as part of lifelong learning across your career. It recognises that sometimes you lead in unprecedented circumstances and supports you to meet these challenges in a sustainable way. Leading across organisations, systems and geographies can be exhilarating and challenging, particularly in current times. Having time to reflect and unpack issues we have been working with is key to improving leadership practice.
Action: Please do take up one of the offers; One-to-one psychological support or Mentoring from the Centre for Army Leadership
Health Literacy: There is a crisis in healthcare: how providing direct support for staff and carers on improving health literacy can begin to tackle the challenge (e-LFH training programme devised by HEE and NHS Scotland)
Action: Learn more here Improving health literacy | NHS England | Workforce, training and education
HEE Star Training: joining up with Academic Health Science Networks (AHSN) and Integrated Care Systems) ICS’ to deliver workforce development regionally.
Action: Learn more here: News from Workforce Transformation | NHS England | Workforce, training and education
HEE Star workshops: Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance – how the HEE Star is a system-wide tool (video of Sharon Middleton talking about the benefits to the Alliance in the first Virtual Star workshop – held during Covid)
Action: Learn more here: HEE Star: Accelerating workforce redesign | NHS England | Workforce, training and education
Help us to help you
Do you have a success story or resource to share? Please contact us and let us know so that we can make it available for everyone.