GP PRACTICES: COULD YOUR PRACTICE HOST A STUDENT NURSING ASSOCIATE?

NEL Training Hub is inviting General Practices across North East London to express their interest in hosting a Student Nursing Associate (SNA) apprentice.

Hosting an SNA is a fantastic opportunity to:

  • Grow your own nursing workforce and support career progression within your team
  • Strengthen your clinical capacity and skills mix
  • Contribute to developing the next generation of Registered Nurses in Primary Care

Funding and support available:

  • The SNA apprenticeship is fully funded through the Apprenticeship Levy (we can help arrange a levy transfer if required).
  • Practices also receive an annual support payment of £4,287 per apprentice to help facilitate learning in practice.

If your practice is interested in hosting a Student Nursing Associate or would like more information about the apprenticeship pathway, please contact thgpcg.neltraininghub@nhs.net

HCA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 2025/26 – NOW LIVE

HCA Development Programme for 2025/26 is now live.

This programme offers a  range of training opportunities designed to support Healthcare Assistants working across North East London in building clinical skills, confidence, and competence.

The link to the HCA Development Programme web site is HERE.

This is a live calendar, with new sessions added regularly, so please check back for updates.

OLIVER MCGOWAN TIER 2 TRAINING SESSIONS – NOW OPEN FOR BOOKING

NEL now have Tier 2 Oliver McGowan Sessions available for booking across the system!

The initial tranche of sessions begin from the 21st November and go on until the end of January and will be hosted at various trust sites. Further sessions will be released for booking in the new year.

To clarify, every session is open for any eligible member of staff working in NEL NHS organisations regardless of where the session is hosted, so we encourage staff to book onto whichever sessions are most convenient for them. Eg if a session is hosted at Homerton and a member of staff from NELFT wants to attend it, that is absolutely fine.

All of the sessions can be found HERE so please promote these to your staff.

For enquiries, please contact rob.brooks@nhs.net.

NEL TRAINING HUB STATEMENT

We believe everyone deserves to feel valued, respected, and empowered to thrive and in doing so the NEL Training Hub is firmly committed to anti-racism, and our duty to eliminate discrimination, harassment, and victimisation, through upholding the principles of diversity and equity in all our operations, fostering unity and solidarity with our workforce and the wider community.

The diverse backgrounds and abilities within our organisation enable us to model best practices and strive for the highest standards in achieving positive outcomes for all our staff and families across NEL.

We are committed to work in collaboration with key partners and stakeholders who are representative of our communities to enable increasing workforce diversity and supporting access to health and care careers for underrepresented groups, whilst addressing inequalities through training, development and workforce transformation across Primary care.

Equity and inclusion are ongoing commitments for us.

We will continue to listen, learn, and act to ensure fairness, dignity, and opportunity for all.

NEL Training Hub

NEL MULTI-PROFESSIONAL FACULTY GROUP

Supporting High-Quality Education Across the Healthcare Workforce

The NEL Multi-Professional Faculty Group (MPFG) has been established to develop, support, and sustain a high-quality, locally rooted educational faculty for all clinical, workplace, and educational supervisors across the healthcare professions.

We are building a collaborative, inclusive learning community that champions educator development and delivers real impact in practice. Join us in shaping the future of supervision across North East London.

Open to educators across all professions.

Join us for a series of engaging and practical sessions for current and aspiring educators –

all sessions will be held between 1pm and 2pm:

Session 3 – Mon 19 Jan 2026 – Innovations in Supervision Across Professions

Session 4 – Mon 20 Apr 2026 – Managing Difficult or Complex Learners

Click HERE to learn more and register

Pathways into Compassionate Care: Healthcare Support Apprenticeships

Healthcare Support Worker:

The healthcare support worker apprenticeship will develop apprentices who are new to healthcare to be able to provide compassionate care to individuals. They will learn how to carry out well-defined routine clinical duties like monitoring an individual’s conditions (by checking things like blood pressure, temperature or weight), checking on their overall progress, comfort and wellbeing.

This programme is a hybrid one with on and off-the job learning. Monthly workshops will deliver the knowledge which will then be assessed in practice in the workplace.  The education coach will deliver theoretical learning then conduct observations of practice to ensure competency. Apprentices will build a portfolio of evidence.

The apprentice must complete the15 standards as set out in the Care Certificate which is part of the programme unless already covered as part of workplace practices.

Senior Healthcare Support Worker:

The apprenticeship standard provides the apprentice with a high level of skills, knowledge, values, and behaviours that are required of the senior healthcare support worker. On completion of this apprenticeship the apprentice will become competent to fulfil the role as a Senior Healthcare Support Worker.

Specialist pathways are followed for this apprenticeship, designed to ensure competence across a variety of disciplines. Available pathways are Adult Nursing, Maternity, Mental Health, Children and Young People, Allied Health Professional, Theatre and Diagnostic Imaging.

This programme is a hybrid one with on and off-the job learning. Monthly workshops will deliver the knowledge which will then be assessed in practice in the workplace.  The education coach will deliver theoretical learning then conduct observations of practice to ensure competency. Apprentices will build a portfolio of evidence.

The apprentice must complete the15 standards as set out in the Care Certificate which is part of the programme unless already covered as part of workplace practices.

 

For more information and how to apply please contact: bhrut.apprenticeships@nhs.net

NEL Prescribing Quality Scheme And Prescribing Efficiency Scheme Drop-In Q&A Sessions 25-26

Following the recent launch of the NEL Prescribing Quality Scheme (PQS) and NEL Prescribing Efficiency Scheme (PES), the Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation Team will be hosting regular drop-in Q&A sessions throughout 2025 and early 2026, to help facilitate questions and queries on both schemes.

All NEL practices are welcome and encouraged to attend.

This will also be an opportunity to provide feedback on both schemes.

The first drop in Q&A session will be on Tuesday 20th May 2025 12.30-2pm – CLICK HERE TO JOIN.

Subsequent sessions are scheduled for:

Date Time
Tuesday 7th July 2025 – CLICK HERE TO JOIN 1-2pm
Tuesday 23rd September 2025 – CLICK HERE TO JOIN 1-2pm
Tuesday 25th November 2025 – CLICK HERE TO JOIN 1-2pm
Tuesday 20th January 2026 – CLICK HERE TO JOIN 1-2pm

 

NHS 10 Year Health Plan – Primary Care

As you may be aware, the government is currently holding the biggest national conversation about the future of the NHS, inviting the public to input via the change.nhs.uk portal to shape the 10 Year Health Plan.

We know trainees and NHS staff are working harder than ever to get services back on track, to get waiting lists down, and consistently deliver the best care. Yet too often we are struggling to provide the right care, in the right place and at the right time. This is no good for patients or colleagues providing care.

Change is needed, and we also know that many of the solutions we need are already here, working, training, or volunteering somewhere in the NHS today.

For the 10-year health plan to meet the needs of patients and service users, we need their voices, experiences, and ideas of how thing could improve.

Alongside the ongoing call for the public, staff, and the wider health and care community to share their thoughts on the ambitions for the NHS and healthcare, we are making a specific ask of healthcare trainees to engage in Change NHS through using:

  • Community engagement – our Workshop in a Box contains everything you need to engage a group of people in a conversation about the 10-year health plan for health. A facilitator briefing guide, a set of slides to help you run the workshop and a feedback form to share back what you hear.  The online deadline for returns is 14 February 2025
  • Change.nhs.uk – individuals are also encouraged to tell us about their own experiences to help us prioritise key challenges facing health and care or suggest an idea for improving the NHS.

Whether you have a little to say or a lot, your views, experiences, and ideas will shape immediate steps and long-term changes: a new 10-Year Health Plan for the NHS.