Course Calendar

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09:30 Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring Skills for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring Skills for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-072)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 3 Sep 2024, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on introducing the concepts relating to coaching and mentoring and providing participants with practical models to utilise.

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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 (SW24-078)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Fri 6 Sep 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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09:30 Break down unconscious bias within your workplace for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Break down unconscious bias within your workplace for Doctors in Training (SW24-015)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 10 Sep 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This course will help participants to manage their biases and develop skills for overcoming them. Evolutionary psychologists report that we have learned to make up our minds, in a split-second, about whether we are encountering friend or foe and are hard-wired to be suspicious of those different from ourselves. Overweight people, those with a weak handshake or tattoos, and of course gender issues, race, LGBT (to name just a few!). This undermines confidence and may result in poor performance, disengagement and conflict. As a result, individuals and organisations are missing out on great talent; not forming strong working relationships, inhibiting excellent performance etc.

09:30 Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training (SW24-111)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Tue 10 Sep 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 Active Bystander and Allyship Workshop for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Active Bystander and Allyship Workshop for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-121)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Wed 11 Sep 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.

09:30 Influence and Negotiation Skills for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Influence and Negotiation Skills for Doctors in Training (DT24-013)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 11 Sep 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on improving the participants ability to manage challenging discussions, deliver difficult feedback, and negotiate effectively.

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09:20 Support your Trainee to Improve Self Care, Manage Stress and Enhancing Resilience for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Support your Trainee to Improve Self Care, Manage Stress and Enhancing Resilience for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-038)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 12 Sep 2024, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package will help you become better equipped to support your trainees in developing effective self-care strategies to improve their wellbeing and maintain high levels of resilience. We recognise from the GMC review (Caring for Doctors, Caring for Patients) that there are considerable challenges faced by all doctors working within the NHS, with 1 in 3 doctors suffering work-related stress and 1 in 4 trainees experiencing burnout.

09:30 Emotional Intelligence for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Emotional Intelligence for Doctors in Training (SW24-096)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 12 Sep 2024, 09:30 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on the popularised concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) by Daniel Goleman in the 1990s. A business operating with an emotionally intelligent strategy and emotionally intelligent staff will have an edge over competitors. This workshop is designed to enable participants to understand and utilise emotional intelligence to maximise their effectiveness in the work environment. effectiveness in the work environment.

13:30 Genomics   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Genomics (SW24-131)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Thu 12 Sep 2024, 13:30 to 17:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop is an introduction to Genomics and its relevance to your everyday practice.

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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 (SW24-090)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 13 Sep 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.

09:20 Personal Effectiveness and Time Management for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Personal Effectiveness and Time Management for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-026)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 13 Sep 2024, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package allows you time and space to reflect on your own work-life balance while exploring strategies to become more productive and reduce procrastination.

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09:20 Senior Education Faculty Leads Development Programme for DME/TPD/HoS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Senior Education Faculty Leads Development Programme for DME/TPD/HoS (DT24-037)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 17 Sep 2024, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop has been developed for senior leaders in medical education. This workshop focuses on how to support, lead, and develop the faculty and enhance educational governance with the aim of providing high-quality training.

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09:30 Professional Capabilities Framework for Supervisors: Introductory Workshop - Are you ready to assess your trainees?   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Professional Capabilities Framework for Supervisors: Introductory Workshop - Are you ready to assess your trainees? (SW24-029)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 18 Sep 2024, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on developing trainers skills to enable them to be able to demonstrate that they have the necessary skills and understanding of these generic professional capabilities to assess them, and be able to provide specific comments and feedback on a PG DiT’s performance. Trainers will become confident and feel supported in expressing their professional judgement about generic outcomes alongside specialty outcomes for their PG DiTs, as well as being able to give feedback to PG DiT to identify areas for improvement and highlight areas of excellence.

09:30 Skilled Coaching Workshop for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Skilled Coaching Workshop for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-001)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Wed 18 Sep 2024 at 09:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 10.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: 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 Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years (SW24-038)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Thu 19 Sep 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.

09:20 Understanding and Supporting Neurodiverse Trainees for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Understanding and Supporting Neurodiverse Trainees for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-051)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 19 Sep 2024, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The objective of this initiative is to promote understanding of neurodiversity among doctors, and to identify effective strategies for supporting both neurodiverse and neurotypical trainees and colleagues.

13:30 Break down unconscious bias within your workplace for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Break down unconscious bias within your workplace for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-012)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 19 Sep 2024, 13:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This course will help participants to manage their biases and develop skills for overcoming them. Evolutionary psychologists report that we have learned to make up our minds, in a split-second, about whether we are encountering friend or foe and are hard-wired to be suspicious of those different from ourselves. Overweight people, those with a weak handshake or tattoos, and of course gender issues, race, LGBT (to name just a few!). This undermines confidence and may result in poor performance, disengagement and conflict. As a result, individuals and organisations are missing out on great talent; not forming strong working relationships, inhibiting excellent performance etc.

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09:00 Neurodiversity for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Neurodiversity for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-042)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 20 Sep 2024, 09:00 to 13:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with neurodiverse conditions in later life. Behavioural traits that were previously interpreted as a lack of engagement or poor self regulation are now beingrecognised as a consequence of genetic and developmental factors which create challenges both personally and professionally. This programme provides an overview of neurodiverse conditions and their manifestations in behaviour. It explores ways in which supervisors might recognise those behaviours and support staff members who may or may not be aware of conditions that could be causing difficulties in the workplace. The course will encourage delegates to consider, in the context of clinical safety, situations where the environment could and should be adjusted to enable the benefits of increased diversity in the clinical workforce and where neurodiversity might present a barrier to achieving competency required for a role. It will also encourage consideration of our own unconscious biases in this area.

09:00 Supervisor Training Modules 1-5   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 1-5 (SMT24-002)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Fri 20 Sep 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 (SW24-126)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 20 Sep 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 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 (SW24-136)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Mon 23 Sep 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 Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-055)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 23 Sep 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.

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09:20 Advanced Communication Skills Masterclass for IMG Trainees   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Advanced Communication Skills Masterclass for IMG Trainees (DT24-002)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 24 Sep 2024, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package provides the International Medical Graduate the opportunity to become better equipped to use advanced communication skills within their clinical practices. This course will help you communicate with greater clarity and assertiveness.

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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 (SW24-084)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Wed 25 Sep 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.

09:20 Personal Effectiveness and Time Management for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Personal Effectiveness and Time Management for Doctors in Training (DT24-025)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 25 Sep 2024, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package allows you time and space to reflect on your own work-life balance while exploring strategies to become more productive and reduce procrastination.

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09:30 Giving Feedback to Someone Senior for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Giving Feedback to Someone Senior for Doctors in Training (SW24-114)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 26 Sep 2024, 09:30 to 13:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop is provided to give doctors in training the confidence to approach and give feedback to someone at an equal or senior level. It is recognised that this can be daunting and something we can be tempted to avoid doing, but in a safety-critical industry like the NHS, it’s important we have the courage, confidence, and competence to do it and do it in such a way that it’s not just accepted by the other person, but they take notice and respond appropriately and professionally. 

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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 (SW24-065)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 27 Sep 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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09:20 Influence and Negotiation Skills for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Influence and Negotiation Skills for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-015)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 30 Sep 2024, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on improving the participants ability to manage challenging discussions, deliver difficult feedback, and negotiate effectively.