In November 2015 the Government announced its commitment to increasing the growth of apprenticeships as a viable and significant option for developing skills and employment opportunities. The levy will be collected from today (6th April 2017). The Apprenticeship reforms are significant and will have major implications for NHS organisations, including:
The Global Health Exchange have created a short animation explaining what they do and how they support the NHS workforce.
You can watch the video by clicking the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwy5m1VYLe0&feature=youtu.be
To find out more about the Global Health Exchange click here to visit their website
On 30th November 2016 Health Education England working across the North West held a half day Preceptorship event.
Key objectives of the event were:
Health Education England (working across the North West) presents a health and wellbeing workshop for educators supporting healthcare learners in the North West’s learning environments.
The purpose of the event is to build on the recently developed public health benchmarking and action planning tool to ensure placement capacity, capability and quality is supported to ensure public health learning outcomes can be met by all healthcare learners on placements in the North West.
When? Tuesday 1st November 2016 9.30-2pm
Progressing the Transforming Learning Environments Developments, Health Education England, working across the North West, continue their commitment to innovate and stimulate continuous quality improvement for learners throughout organisations across the
'Where the work is' is a free-to-use skills dashboard for the UK developed by Institute for Public Policy and Research (IPPR) and Burning Glass Technologies, enables users to explore demand for particular mid-skills roles, and likely levels of competition and potential salary.
NHS England is hosting an event, ‘Building the right support for people with a learning disability and/or autism: one year on event’ on 8th November 2016. Please see link below for further information and how to book a place.
LETB Celebration Event
LETB Celebration Event
The learning disability advisers and learning disability engagement team will be presenting at this year’s NHS Innovation Expo conference, at Manchester Central. We will use our session to remind people how important it is that people with a learning disability and/or autism are meaningfully involved in their own healthcare, and as part of this, that they are employed in rewarding jobs.