Course Calendar

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09:15 Quality Improvement – Development Session for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Quality Improvement – Development Session for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-079)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Fri 1 Nov 2024, 09:15 to 12:15
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop will help inform you, as a supervisor, about QI context and methodology to enable you to support your Postgraduate Doctors in Training with Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs). It will provide you with the knowledge required to understand how Quality Improvement (QI) impacts positively on doctors, patients, the NHS, and wider society. 

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09:00 Recognising and Developing Leadership Skills in Colleagues and Doctors in Training (PGDiTs) for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Recognising and Developing Leadership Skills in Colleagues and Doctors in Training (PGDiTs) for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-087)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 4 Nov 2024, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The session is aimed at providing leadership skills for yourself as part of faculty development in leadership and at the same time equip you with some ideas to develop them in postgraduate doctors in training. The ideas have been developed following research into leadership programmes in the NHS to identify skills that are genuinely useful in bringing about healthcare change. These influencing skills are based on simple rules of thumb (otherwise known as heuristics) that enable you to make better decisions when faced with complex problems.

09:30 Improve your knowledge, awareness and acceptance of other cultures for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Improve your knowledge, awareness and acceptance of other cultures for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-102)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 4 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Our world today is characterised by communities encompassing of people belonging to a diversity of cultural backgrounds. Sometimes, where there are cultural differences, tension can arise and mistakes can be made. This course explores the importance of self-reflection and looks at ways we can grow our cultural and global knowledge. We consider some practical ways we can make meaningful connections across common barriers and leave participants with tangible actions to develop their own culture.

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09:30 Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training (SW24-112)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Tue 5 Nov 2024 at 09:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on how to offer others the invitation to change (behaviour, attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs) and embrace new ways in a committed way.

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09:30 Clinical Leadership: Essential Practice for a New World for ST6+ & SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Clinical Leadership: Essential Practice for a New World for ST6+ & SAS (SW24-152)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Wed 6 Nov 2024 at 09:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 10.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This 2-day workshop will introduce you to the concepts of leadership you’ll need as you progress in your clinical career. In May 2017 the General Medical Council published its ‘Generic professional capabilities framework’ and emphasises that to achieve a UK certificate of completion of training (CCT), doctors must demonstrate an ‘appropriate and mature professional identity appropriate to their level of seniority’. In response to this requirement, NHS England (NHSE) offers you an opportunity to attend this 2-day workshop which primarily covers competencies required in Domain 5 – ‘Capabilities in leadership and team working’. If you have already completed Professional and Generic Skills (see below), you will not need to attend this course. The workshops will be delivered by expert academics and practitioners from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.

09:30 Lean Thinking for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Lean Thinking for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-104)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Wed 6 Nov 2024 at 09:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on how to adjust your ways of thinking to understand how to maximise your input to ensure that your service can maximise their input, ultimately reducing the risk of human-led errors for the customers.

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10:00 Patient Safety and Human Factors for CTs   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Patient Safety and Human Factors for CTs (SW24-149)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Thu 7 Nov 2024, 10:00 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop will explore patient safety and human factors covering the new Patient Safety Syllabus as its foundation. No prior knowledge of safety science, human factors and non-technical skills is required. You will gain an introduction to system theory and non-technical skills training. You will gain ‘tricks’ to make you more effective and learn how to approach errors and avoid making mistakes.

10:00 Patient Safety and Human Factors for STs   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Patient Safety and Human Factors for STs (SW24-150)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Thu 7 Nov 2024, 10:00 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop will explore patient safety and human factors covering the new Patient Safety Syllabus as its foundation. No prior knowledge of safety science, human factors and non-technical skills is required. You will gain an introduction to system theory and non-technical skills training. You will gain ‘tricks’ to make you more effective and learn how to approach errors and avoid making mistakes.

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09:30 Active Bystander and Allyship Workshop for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Active Bystander and Allyship Workshop for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-122)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 8 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Our learning environment, relationships with our peers and teachers and the feelings of inclusion and belonging are key for achieving one’s full potential. These are some of the key principles found to influence and address the differential attainment gap that exists. The Active Bystander training aims to empower educators and learners across our education community to recognise and challenge poor behaviours and practices that have a negative impact on an individual’s experience. This is a powerful tool, evidenced to empower and help bring about cultural change and collectively create a safer and more supportive learning and working environment for all.

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09:00 Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years (SW24-039)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 11 Nov 2024, 09:00 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop provides you with some simple, effective, and practical generic teamwork, management, and leadership skills that you can immediately start thinking about and using in complex situations at work and, for that matter, in your personal life.

14:00 Communication & Linguistics for Doctors in Training & IMGs   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Communication & Linguistics for Doctors in Training & IMGs (SW24-041)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 11 Nov 2024, 14:00 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This programme will focus on communication and linguistics, and the different dimensions of culture, as well as cultural identity and cultural respect.

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09:30 Assertiveness in Communication for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Assertiveness in Communication for Doctors in Training (SW24-094)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 12 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Whatever your role in the workplace, a clear and assertive communication style will prevent misunderstandings and ensure that your message is heard. This course is most suitable for those looking to increase their personal effectiveness and adopt a professional and assertive approach to their communications. It provides tools and techniques to help adapt your style to suit the audience.

09:30 Understanding Human Behaviour to Communicate More Effectively for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Understanding Human Behaviour to Communicate More Effectively for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-009)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 12 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 15:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: There are nearly 8 billion people on the planet. That is a lot of different people with a lot of different personalities. Medical professionals come across so many different personalities, presenting different behaviours, day in and day out. Some people (and their behaviour) are easy to communicate with and others are not. They don’t understand what you are trying to say, they don’t do what you ask of them and use behaviour that makes no sense to the other person. This interactive workshop is designed to shed light on the different personality and behaviour types so we can learn to adapt the way we communicate to accommodate others, allowing for confident, assertive and effective communication.

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09:20 Providing Effective Feedback and Managing Challenging Conversations for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Providing Effective Feedback and Managing Challenging Conversations for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-027)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 13 Nov 2024, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop will allow you to become better equipped to provide effective feedback, manage challenging conversations, and support reflective practice.

09:30 Wellbeing & Resilience Training for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Wellbeing & Resilience Training for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-025)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 13 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Life and work contain challenge and uncertainty and addressing stress is a top priority. This course helps you to take great care of yourself, manage the ups and downs, and cultivate a positive and resilient mindset. You will leave the course feeling nourished and uplifted, and armed with strategies that make a real difference to your well-being and resilience. “An estimated 17 million working days were lost due to work-related stress, depression, or anxiety in 2021/22. This is over half of all working days lost due to work-related ill health.” Health & Safety Executive report. In this restorative training, you’ll connect with others, share, and learn key tips for feeling calm, well and resilient. We will explore proactive approaches to boost your general well-being, as well as effective strategies to apply at times of stress. You’ll become more self-aware and will be able to recognise some of the main mechanisms that create stress, as well as knowing their antidotes. This Well-Being & Resilience Training is an essential and pragmatic toolkit, which draws on the best of my 18 years’ experience of working in this field.

10:00 Managing Challenging Circumstances for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Managing Challenging Circumstances for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-046)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 13 Nov 2024, 10:00 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: We are living in turbulent times and in what can only be described as a VUCA (Volatile; Uncertain; Complex; Ambiguous). This webinar focuses on our behaviours during these challenging times, applying assertiveness skills to stay in control and gaining an understanding of situational leadership and when to apply authority. The course also includes elements of managing change and models associated with this to help individuals through a period of instability.

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09:30 Help prevent bullying and harassment within your workplace for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Help prevent bullying and harassment within your workplace for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-145)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 14 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on preventing bullying and harassment and the legal aspects of this critical subject. With a lens on equality and diversity in this context, this session will explore how to successfully apply the legal elements. It will address personal responsibility and clarify legal boundaries. The module will demystify equality legislation and help delegates understand what is required of them. It will explore the ‘what’ and offer pragmatic and realistic ideas on the ‘how’ to implement actions to achieve a sustainable and respectful workplace that benefits everyone. The session will consider the key elements of the legal perspective and what they mean to strategic leaders.

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09:00 Supervisor Training Modules 1-5   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 1-5 (SMT24-003)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Fri 15 Nov 2024, 09:00 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This is for those wishing to become an Educational or Clinical Supervisor - to book a place, please email: england.facultydevelopment.sw@nhs.net

09:30 Challenging Conversations and Effective Feedback for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Challenging Conversations and Effective Feedback for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-127)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 15 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Our learning environment, relationships with our peers and teachers and the feelings of inclusion and belonging are key for achieving one’s full potential. These are some of the key principles found to influence and address the differential attainment gap that exists. Facilitating challenging conversations with trainees about their progress is frequently cited as a key issue of difficulty, but feedback is the most powerful single modification that enhances achievement. This workshop aims explore these challenges and offer some solutions.

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09:30 Feedback Skills for Supervisors Supervising IMG PGDiTs for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Feedback Skills for Supervisors Supervising IMG PGDiTs for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-133)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 18 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This course focuses on developing intercultural competence and communication skills, with the express aim to facilitate better interactions with IMGs in all settings. We will do this by learning about different intercultural theories and ideas, looking at how these apply to us personally and how we engage with the world around us, before using this same information to consider how this might apply to those we work with. We’ll look at examples of how intercultural differences might present in the workplace and how we can better read and understand different behaviours so that we can better support and manage IMGs. We’ll also touch on considerations for clearer communication when dealing with those who have other first languages and how we can deliver information and feedback clearly while in a culturally sensitive manner.

09:30 Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-057)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 18 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on how PGDiT self-reflection, feedback from the trainer, and trainer reflection can improve the performance and values of feedback, both formal and informal. It will also go on to explore why receiving feedback is so hard and how we can help overcome it.

09:30 Skilled Coaching Workshop for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Skilled Coaching Workshop for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-003)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Mon 18 Nov 2024 at 09:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 10.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To attend this course, you must have attended the "Introduction to Coaching & Mentoring Skills" course first. This two-day training package is a follow-on course from “Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Educational and Clinical Supervisors." You will deepen the skills of coaching to support meaningful conversations and explore tools and techniques to help others build their development and self-belief.

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09:00 Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-155)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 19 Nov 2024, 09:00 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a widely utilised psychological practice to support people to change, focusing especially on those less ready. This introductory and interactive session focuses on the method and offers participants the opportunity to consider their own current practice. The session will introduce some of the skills that underpin the method. This short session precedes the full skilled MI training 2- day workshop

09:30 Maximising Your Personal Impact for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Maximising Your Personal Impact for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-098)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 19 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Everything we do has an impact, but does it bring us the results we want? This course, for those wishing to interact with others more effectively, helps us to identify how we are perceived, overcome barriers that hold us back and improve our personal impact. Using a four-step framework for positive personal impact, the course provides techniques to help you sound, embody, look and feel the part you want.

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10:00 Introduction to Patient Safety and Human Factors for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Introduction to Patient Safety and Human Factors for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-151)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Wed 20 Nov 2024, 10:00 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop will explore patient safety and human factors covering advanced domains within the new Patient Safety Syllabus. No prior knowledge of safety science, human factors and non-technical skills is required. You will learn how key system and human factors principles inform a human factors proactive system review alongside gaining and insight into the difference and use of several human factor’s methods. You will also gain knowledge of how to plan and apply human factors methods to consider a healthcare safety issue.

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09:00 Skills for Managing Stress – how to support yourself and others within the workplace for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Skills for Managing Stress – how to support yourself and others within the workplace for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-091)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 22 Nov 2024, 09:00 to 15:15
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on the varying principles and beliefs of managing stressful situations while discussing the help available to NHS colleagues to ensure that everyone can gain assistance when required.

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09:30 Develop and maintain an inclusive workplace for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Develop and maintain an inclusive workplace for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-137)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Mon 25 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop has been designed for participants who are looking to enhance their skills and awareness of inclusivity. Delegates will leave with the knowledge required to transfer learning back to the workplace through the development of their own personal action plan.

09:30 Help prevent bullying and harassment within your workplace for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Help prevent bullying and harassment within your workplace for Doctors in Training (SW24-146)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 25 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on preventing bullying and harassment and the legal aspects of this critical subject. With a lens on equality and diversity in this context, this session will explore how to successfully apply the legal elements. It will address personal responsibility and clarify legal boundaries. The module will demystify equality legislation and help delegates understand what is required of them. It will explore the ‘what’ and offer pragmatic and realistic ideas on the ‘how’ to implement actions to achieve a sustainable and respectful workplace that benefits everyone. The session will consider the key elements of the legal perspective and what they mean to strategic leaders.

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09:20 Safe Spaces - Navigating Sexual Safety for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Safe Spaces - Navigating Sexual Safety for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-035)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 26 Nov 2024, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: “Safe Spaces” zeroes in on the critical issue of sexual safety within healthcare settings, with a special focus on interactions between doctors, staff members, and trainees. This workshop is grounded in the principles of the Sexual Safety Charter, aiming to empower participants with the understanding, skills, and courage to act as active bystanders who can effectively identify, prevent, and address inappropriate behaviours.

09:30 Confidence Training for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Confidence Training for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-020)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 26 Nov 2024, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training enables you to feel more confident, comfortable and empowered as you engage with your work and your life more broadly. The course provides an opportunity for you to explore the theme of confidence in a safe environment. We will probe what confidence looks, sounds, feels and acts like. I will highlight key component parts of confidence and how they work, including how you may have been getting in your own way. Once you understand these mechanisms and how to apply them, you will have access to a toolkit which can significantly increase your inner comfort and assurance. You will be empowered to cultivate more self-acceptance and a positive self-view. You will learn how to ground yourself, when anxiety or agitation arises. Elevating your personal confidence will impact your effectiveness in all of your activities, and allow you to bring your unique strengths, both in work and outside of work. This training is liberating and uplifting. You have everything you need within you to experience greater confidence.

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09:00 Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Compassionate Leadership   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Compassionate Leadership (SW24-066)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 27 Nov 2024, 09:00 to 13:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on the human challenge of leadership in the NHS, whatever your role, and how to cultivate the skills of compassionate leadership. The challenge of being a leader in the NHS is to be able handle all the paradoxes and pressures whilst also dealing with moral injury and systems under strain.  This workshop focuses on how you can manage your internal landscape and cultivate skills to support yourself.

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09:00 Leading as a Trainee: A Clinical Leadership Workshop for ST3-5 Trainees   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Leading as a Trainee: A Clinical Leadership Workshop for ST3-5 Trainees (SW24-062)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 28 Nov 2024, 09:00 to 15:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop provides an introduction to leadership from the perspective of trainees. It will be most relevant to those who have had little experience of leadership training in the past. It will be an interactive, reflective day providing an understanding of clinical leadership, its role within the NHS and practical actions for trainees development.