For General Practice Nurse and HCAs

HCA's Competency Passport.

Please find attached for the Competency Passport here for Healthcare Assistance.

GPN Trainee Available

GPN Trainee available for a 12 months placement, Clinical supervision available in the event of no permanent nurse within the practice. 

Please contact CLH Training HUB on: clh.traininghub@nhs.net

Implementation of Pathways and Passports

Implementation of Pathways and Passport. On our new platform, there will be Preceptorship programs (TNA) as well as the Care Certificate,  GPN Trainee Passport and HCA passports for those with no evidence of completed to competencies.

If you are interested and want to find out more please email FAO: clh.traininghub@nhs.net

Senior Nurses to become Educators

Opportunities for Senior Nurses to become Educators to undertake some teaching and mentoring for the primary and social care workforce can be for both or either or for nursing associates.​

If you are interested and want to find out more please email carmen.wyles@nhs.net

Funding for Nurses 

Funding for nurses who want to embark on their independent nursing prescribing course/ training please make requests via training platform and training needs analysis form. 

If you are interested and want to find out more please email FAO: clh.traininghub@nhs.net or email carmen.wyles@nhs.net

HEE Offering Fellowship courses

HEE offering Fellowship courses for experience Nurses wanting to go into more Leadership, Research, and Teaching pathways. ​This is an excellent programme if any of you are interested you can do it as a MSc or PGD Cert the funding is available for this year if you are interested.

If you are interested and want to find out more please email FAO: clh.traininghub@nhs.net or email carmen.wyles@nhs.net

The Responsibilities of signing off HCAs

The responsibility of signing off HCA,  Nursing Associates,  Junior GPNs & Student Nurses lies on Supervisors and Assessors.  Once a trainee completes their competencies and reflects on their practice they can be signed off and the training hub will issue the certificate of competency. So please ensure you support any learners or trainees under your practice you do not have to have a teaching or mentorship course to assess someone and deem them competent to perform the clinical skill that you know they already perform,  however if you are not sure and do not feel competent  to do this.

If you wish to find out more please email FAO: clh.traininghub@nhs.net or email carmen.wyles@nhs.net

Practice nurses’ perceptions of their immunization role and strategies used to promote measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine uptake in 2014 – 2018

Practice nurses’ perceptions of their immunization role and strategies used to promote measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine uptake in 2014 – 2018: A qualitative study. Please click here to find out more information. 

Mapping the Advanced Practice Workforce Webinar

Please click here for the presentation given on the ACP (Advanced Clinical Practitioners) webinar.

SSSA Training Sessions - UWL Offer

UWL'S Education system units email with details for their proposed training to support and to increase the numbers of Practice Assessors and Practice Supervisors in Primary Care. 

Please click here for more information with dates and times for each session which will be listed.

for further information please contact Joanne Day at joanne.day@uwl.ac.uk

FREE CPD for experienced GPNs

HEE (London) is funding a total of 50 places for GPNs on a first come, first served basis. This means the nurses will NOT  need to pay for the course. The price on the flyer is for those areas not covered by HEE (London) funding and because it is the required format for the university.

Of those 50 places, 30 are for those who wish to do the Work-Based module alongside the Masterclasses to obtain 15 academic credits at either Level 6 or Level 7.

When applying, the nurses will need to specify which HEE London region they are part of for confirmation of funding. If they put an NHS trust down, the funding request will be rejected. 

If more than 50 GPNs apply for the course, we will ask HEE for additional funding, but have no idea if that will be granted. Please click here for more information.

Pathway for Specific Skin Problems

The TV (Tissue Viability) team has developed a pathway for specific skin problems, Please click here for information on this will help address the patient's problems.

Mapping the ACP workforce

ACP London will be hosting a Webinar on Tuesday 26^th of January 2021 at 13:00, the session will be focusing on the Mapping of the ACP workforce. We have attached the webinar flyer, this includes QR code so you can scan and book your place, please also share the flyer to those within your organisation. 

Alternatively you can also click on or cut and paste this link into your browser to book your place  https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=K5Gn_5ewMUGcD9DoB1Wyq5hjSXBJITFFu_d5-vAGJX5UMExYVDJVS0tLQVlLMUdOOFIxWklQUUdZOS4u

Everyone that registers will receive an email that will include the link to join the session and the agenda, this will be sent out closer to the event.

Virtual and Skills Teaching Dates for Non Ophthalmic ACPs

As part of a project with Health Education England (HEE) and Moorfields Eyes Hospital. They  are supporting Advanced Clinical Practitioners  (ACP’s) and trainee ACP’s  in urgent care and GP services with the development of ophthalmic knowledge and skills. This training is completely free. There will be lots of online sessions (common eye conditions, case studies, triage of the ophthalmic patient and corneal emergencies, bespoke training), and depending on Covid-19 this will also include skills training.

If you are a ACP’s or trainees who are interested,  please see attached flyer and kindly email f.dirir@nhs.net and cc: clh.traininghub@nhs.net to have the link for the virtual training sessions.

Please click here for more information.

Care Certificates

You will recall that the Care Certificate was developed following a review of health and social care support workers, and their training and development, by Camilla Cavendish in 2013.

Designed with the unregistered workforce in mind, the Care Certificate was implemented to provide a structured and consistent learning approach to induction, ensuring that care workers have the knowledge and behaviours to provide compassionate, safe, quality care and support. (HEE 2015)

Hence if you have HCAs who have not completed the above mentioned programme or other staff such as; receptionists who wish to train in a supporting capacity as a support worker. Kindly ensure that they are enrolled on this e-learning programme. This programme is also compulsory for HCAs or support works to enrol on the Trainee Nursing Associates programme (TNA) and a requirement that CQC inspectors will check.

For further information and registration, please email Carmen Wyles at  clh.traininghub@nhs.net

Free CPD for experienced GPNs

HEE (London) is funding a total of 50 places for GPNs on a first come, first served basis. This means the nurses will NOT need to pay for the course. The price on the flyer is for those areas not covered by HEE(London) funding and because it is the required format for the University.

Of those 50 places, 30 are for those who wish to do the Work-Based module alongside the Masterclasses to obtain 15 academic credits at either Level 6 or Level 7.

When applying, the nurses will need to specify which HEE London region they are part of for confirmation of funding. If they put an NHS Trust down, the funding request gets rejected.

If more than 50 GPNs apply for the course, we will ask HEE for additional funding but have no idea if that will be granted.

For more information please click here

Return to General Practice Nursing Course Opportunities in London

City University, and Kingston and St George’s University of London, are offering fully funded Return to General Practice courses, paid for by Health Education England. If you are interested in returning to a career in General Practice, and would like further information, please contact HEE Return to Practice team.

Please see more information here.