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What do we mean by Education and training?
The term education and training includes a wide variety of education and training opportunities, usually stemming from staff appraisal or regulatory requirements, for example on the job training, in-house courses, external courses, NVQs, higher level courses and secondment opportunities.
All providers of NHS-funded services are expected to provide adequate development to their staff to ensure they are updated and safe to carry out their day to day practice. Such requirements reinforce wider duties for providers to have regard to the NHS Constitution, including a pledge: “To provide all staff with personal development, access to appropriate training for their jobs and line management support to succeed.”
In addition, a good employer will use training to ensure effective succession planning within their organisation. It is for individual employers to develop their local plans in line with their organisational business objectives and service delivery requirements. Providers of NHS services in receipt of Multi-Professional Education and Training (MPET) funding are required to offer student placement opportunities, where they are properly accredited and where they can provide the necessary supervisory support – as required by the universities and colleges.
How will my transfer affect my education and training?
If you are compulsorily transferred to a non-NHS organisation, which is providing NHS services under a contract - it is made clear in the NHS Standard Contract that all providers of NHS funded clinical services are expected to provide adequate training for their staff to ensure they are properly updated and safe to carry out their day-to-day practice. Such requirements reinforce wider duties to have regard to the NHS Constitution, including a pledge: “To provide all staff with personal development, access to appropriate training for their jobs and line management support to succeed.”
Additional training to ensure succession planning of their workforce would be for individual employers to develop in line with their own organisational business objectives and service delivery requirements. Non-NHS providers in receipt of Multi-Professional Education and Training (MPET) funding are required to offer student placement opportunities where they are properly accredited and where they can provide the necessary supervisory support – as required by the universities and colleges.
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