Paramedic Primary Care Placements 2021

Placing paramedic students starting 24/05/21

Student tariff of £87.50 per week

The University of the West of England (UWE) Paramedic Science programme would like to increase the number of paramedics that experience a placement in primary care during their three-year BSc (Hons) programme. The UWE Paramedic programme would like to place students in primary care for 2 weeks, starting on the Monday 24 May, 2021.

Placement of paramedic students attracts the AHP student tariff of £87.50 per week. For more information on the process and aims of student paramedic placements, please click the button below.

I hope your organisation will consider support and development of the programme by providing placements for one or more students. Ideally, students would be placed in pairs so they can support each other whilst in placement, but single placement offers will be gladly accepted. Please contact me if you are able to support the placement of a paramedic student in primary care.

Thanks for your continued support with student placements.

Kind regards,

Phil Elverd
Education Facilitator | BNSSG Training Hub
phil.elverd@nhs.net

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Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer webinar

A new webinar from GatewayC

On Friday 11 December, GatewayC will facilitate a webinar on Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer, from 14.00 to 15.00.

Aimed at all members of the primary care workforce, this webinar will cover:

The challenges of diagnosing ovarian cancer in primary care
Common symptoms and presentations of ovarian cancer
Key risk factors
Essential primary care investigations

To register, please click the button below.

Register

Workforce Planning

Resources for successful implementation of workforce planning

Workforce Planning

Resources for successful implementation of workforce planning

Webinar resources

Effective Workforce Planning in Primary Care - Can we face the future without it? [19/08/20]

In August 2020, Skills for Health ran a webinar on effective primary care workforce planning. It covered:

Why workforce planning is essential for primary care sustainability
About the barriers to and enables of effective primary care workforce planning
Hints and tips for PCN workforce planning

To download the slide deck and associated resource pack, please click the links below.

Primary Care Workforce Planning slides
Primary Care Workforce Planning resources

New Roles pages

Women’s Health

Guidance on the functions and benefits of Mental Health Practitioners (MHPs), and on how to recruit them

Babies, Child and Young Person education

Guidance on the functions and benefits of Mental Health Practitioners (MHPs), and on how to recruit them

Shared Decision Making Training

An interactive opportunity to practice new skills…

…a great start to working towards a cultural shift

FREE training for clinicians across BNSSG, on Tuesday 29 March

Do you want to help people make better decisions about their healthcare?

Following on from last year’s highly successful Shared Decision Making Workshops, we are pleased to announce that another such workshop will be held this year, on Tuesday 29 March, 2022.

Running from 9.30 – 12.30, this session will be delivered by Dr. Shaba Nabi (GP Clinical Lead Prescribing, BNSSG CCG), an expert in all matters relating to shared decision making (SDM). As such, attendees will be taken on a whistle-stop tour of the rationale and benefits of SDM, in addition to having the chance to practice relevant skills with like-minded colleagues in an interactive setting.

This training is available for FREE to primary, community, and secondary care clinicians.

Should it be of interest, the expandable box below features a link to watch the one-hour Awareness Raising Webinar that originally preceded this training. You do not need to watch it, however, and a recap will be provided at the start of the workshop.

Awareness Raising Webinar

This webinar serves as an introduction to the core principles of Shared Decision Making and begins to lay out the case for its widescale implementation.

To watch it, please click here.

To register your interest in joining this training, please complete the application form via the button below.

Register Interest

What else is on

“Inequalities and Barriers to Cervical Screening” Education Event

For GPs struggling with workload pressures and burnout

GP Peer Support Pilot

For GPs struggling with workload pressures and burnout

Invigorate: Mid-Career GP Event

Invigorate your career, on Weds 23 March!

INTERACT study

A new way of delivering CBT

For patients with depression

The University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care and Centre for Academic Mental Health are developing a new way to deliver cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for patients with depression, called INTERACT, which blends high-intensity therapy with new applications for technology.

A trial programme for it will begin recruiting patients in the next few weeks, with the goal being to recruit over 400 in the next two years, from GP practices in Bristol, London, and York. GPs can refer patients, with potential participants being identified during consultations or from patient records. Participants will randomly receive either usual care or usual care plus the INTERACT CBT intervention.

Participants receiving the intervention will be offered nine sessions of therapy; the first will be delivered face-to-face or by video call, and subsequent sessions will be delivered using instant messaging. Participants will also be able to access the study website and CBT materials at any time, as working outside the therapeutic session is an important ingredient in the effectiveness of CBT.

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Project Management Development courses

Want to develop your project management skills?

Funded places on training courses available

We are collaborating with UWE to support administrative and managerial practice staff in developing their project management skills, by securing a number of funded places on the following self-managed courses.

Prince2 Agile Foundation for Project Management

This course is suitable for anyone interested in project management, design, delivery, and review.

It will take approximately 16 hours to complete, but you will have access to the materials over the span of 6 months, giving you time to plan your studying and book your exam.

It will be delivered online as self-study, and so you will require a computer with internet access.

Tutor support is available by telephone from experienced tutors.

Cohort 1 will start on Monday 4 January, 2021, and be completed by Wednesday 30 June, 2021.

Cohort 2 will start on Monday 1 February, 2021, and be completed by Saturday 31 July, 2021.

More information on this course can be found here.

APM Fundamentals

This course is suited to those with little-to-no project management experience looking to gain an understanding of the principles of project management.

It will take between 10 – 12 hours to complete. You will, however, have access to the materials for 6 months, allowing you to plan your study and book your exam.

It will likewise be delivered entirely online, and so you will need a computer with access to the internet. A webinar is to be held in the course’s first week to demonstrate the learning materials and how to use the e-learning environment.

Tutor support is available by telephone from experience tutors.

The cohort will begin on Monday 1 February, 2021, and end on Tuesday 31 August, 2021.

More information about this course can be found here.

Applying for a funded place

To apply for a funded place, please download the expression of interest form using the third button below, and send a completed copy to Jessie Saul at jessie.saul@nhs.net.

Places will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Applications must be in by Friday 4 December.

Download EoI form

BNSSG GPN Forum

On Thursday 12 November, 2020

Featuring a talk by Karen Storey

Organised by BNSSG CCG and Avon LMC, the next BNSSG General Practice Nurse forum will be held on Thursday 12 November, at 13.00.

Attendees will enjoy updates from:

Karen Storey, Primary Care Nursing Lead, NHSE / I
Phil Elverd, Education Facilitator, BNSSG Training Hub
Lucy Murrell, Director of Nursing, Avon LMC
Liz Mallett, Lead Locality General Practice Nurse, BNSSG CCG

The forum will be followed by Locality-based breakout sessions. Please make sure to join the right breakout session — all links can be found in the associated flyer, which can be downloaded using the button below.

Download flyer

Sign up for the Advancing Practice workshops!

Haven’t secured a place at HEE’s Advanced Practice Virtual Conference?

You can still join their online workshops

HEE’s virtual Advancing Practice conference, set to run on Monday 9 November and Thursday 12 November, has received a great deal of interest.

If you have been unable to secure a space, be advised that you don’t need to miss out on everything — you can still sign up for the online workshops.

Commencing at 11.20 on Monday, they’ll be live until 13.30 on Thursday and cover the following topics:

Supervision for Advanced Clinical Practice
Continuing Professional Development
Developing multi-professional credentials
Centre for Advancing Practice
Research
Creating a core AP curriculum
Developing consensus for the pathway from Advanced Clinical Practice to Consultant Practice

Sign up

Blended Learning

Study your way

Predominantly remote learning, so you can be flexible with your time

Developed by HEE and HEIs across England – and in conjunction with an advisory group featuring representatives from partner organisations – the Blended Learning programme has been established to address national shortages in clinical expertise and to offer predominantly virtual, remote-access study to individuals unable to study for a healthcare role in a traditional fashion.

This programme will be trialled via a nursing degree programme, to start in early 2021. Trainee nurses will have easy access to new and emerging technologies, helping them and their employing trusts to meet the requirement for strong digital capabilities, whilst also furnishing the NHS will an up-to-date, adaptable workforce.

The aims of this programme are to:

“Provide a technology framework that enables student-led provision, online communities of practice leading to development of engaged and self -directed learners with strong digital capabilities”

“Develop flexible, adaptable, resilient, curious, collaborative learners and professionals”

“Attract greater numbers and a more diverse student population into the health profession”

“Create a significantly different offer in healthcare professional education, that will support the growth of a qualitatively different, expert and professional workforce suited to the demands of care now and in the future”

“Fully exploit digital technologies to deliver fully interactive and integrated programmes including immersive technologies like Virtual and Augmented Reality”

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Placing paramedic students starting 24/05/21

Student tariff of £87.50 per week

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An interactive opportunity to practice new skills…

…a great start to working towards a cultural shift

FREE training for clinicians across BNSSG, on Tuesday 29 March

Do you want to help people make better decisions about their healthcare?

Awareness Raising Webinar

What else is on

A new way of delivering CBT

For patients with depression

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Want to develop your project management skills?

Funded places on training courses available

Prince2 Agile Foundation for Project Management

APM Fundamentals

Applying for a funded place

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On Thursday 12 November, 2020

Featuring a talk by Karen Storey

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You can still join their online workshops

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Predominantly remote learning, so you can be flexible with your time

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