2020/01/21

• How does your trust administer Mandatory and Statutory training to your substantive Healthcare and Non-Healthcare staff?  (in-house or external provider)

Training is administered in-house

• If you utilise an external provider who do you use?

Not Applicable

• If you provide training internally who is the head of your training department?

The Associate Director of Education is the head of the training department.

• Please provide information about which mandatory and statutory training courses you provide for your substantive healthcare and non-healthcare staff.

The Trust has aligned its training requirements to the NHS Core Skills Training Framework.    This is the only Required Learning considered to be ‘mandatory’ (i.e. to be completed by all staff) in this organisation – the table below outlines which subjects are included.  Core Skills Training forms the basic minimum training for all staff which will be enhanced by further training identified by the department in which staff work.  Staff are able to view their Required Learning profile on the Trust’s Learning Management System, the Learning Hub, which informs individuals of the Core Skills Training courses which they must complete – including the level, frequency and delivery method.

Other training may be an essential part of the job that staff do as part of their team or in the place that they work.  The Trust uses the term ‘Essential to Role’ to describe this type of training.  Essential to Role training requirements relate to an individual’s job role and their ability to discharge their responsibilities safely.  Essential to Role training requirements should be determined locally by the line manager in partnership with their staff.  However, the Trust has a Training Needs Analysis document that can be used as a guide to identify Organisational Essential to Role training requirements (see attached, please note that contact details have been redacted in this document) – there will be other Essential to Role training requirements which are relevant to particular areas/roles which are not listed in this document. 

The Trust uses the national UK Core Skills Training Framework and e-Learning modules which have been developed by Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare via a link on the Trust’s Learning Management System, the Learning Hub.  Where face to face training is mentioned – this is delivered in-house.

• Please provide information regarding how many healthcare and non-healthcare substantive staff complete Mandatory and Statutory training annually.

8823 staff are identified on our Learning Management System as being required to complete Information Governance, the only training that requires all staff to complete on an annual basis.  At the end of December 2019, the Trust was 95% compliant with Information Governance training, meeting the national compliance threshold which is set at 95%.  There will be other Essential to Role training identified, delivered and undertaken locally in wards and departments that may be completed annually such as Fire Safety – training records of such are kept locally on the ward. 

• How much does it cost to train a healthcare member of staff and a non-healthcare member of staff every year?

This information is not recorded

• What is your current spend in 2019 on agency nurses, AHPs and Doctors?