Course Calendar

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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 (SW24-040)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 3 Mar 2025, 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.

09:30 Emotional Intelligence for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Emotional Intelligence for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-095)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 3 Mar 2025, 09:30 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 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.

13:20 Train the trainer - Enhanced support for the International Medical Graduate for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Train the trainer - Enhanced support for the International Medical Graduate for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-049)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 3 Mar 2025, 13:20 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop explores the challenges and unique opportunities faced by international medical graduates and how you, as an education supervisor, can provide effective support during this important transition.

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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 (DT24-016)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 4 Mar 2025, 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.

09:30 Lean Thinking for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Lean Thinking for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-105)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 4 Mar 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
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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09:00 Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Compassionate Leadership   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Compassionate Leadership (SW24-064)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 5 Mar 2025, 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.

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 (DT24-053)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 5 Mar 2025, 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.

09:30 Lean Thinking for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Lean Thinking for Doctors in Training (SW24-108)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 5 Mar 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 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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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 (SW24-063)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 6 Mar 2025, 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.

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09:20 Supporting the International Medical Graduate through Peer Mentorship for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Supporting the International Medical Graduate through Peer Mentorship for Doctors in Training (DT24-043)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 7 Mar 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop is designed for colleagues who would like to help support new international medical graduates as they settle into their training posts by providing an introduction to mentoring and coaching skills.

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09:00 Motivational Interviewing for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course is currently taking place
Title: Motivational Interviewing for Doctors in Training (SW24-161)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Mon 10 Mar 2025 at 09:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This 2-day course introduces Doctors to Motivational Interviewing (MI) The course will focus on using the skills of MI in conversations between clinician and patient to support change-based consultations. Often to be helpful, clinicians try and convince patients to change, at times to no avail. MI allows us to consider a different way to work with people and help in a way that may allow sustained change. Initially focusing on developing the interpersonal relationship allows the opportunity to direct the conversation towards change where necessary even in those less ready to do so.

09:30 Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-059)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 10 Mar 2025, 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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09:30 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 (SW24-153)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Wed 12 Mar 2025 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 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 (SW24-135)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 12 Mar 2025, 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.

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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 (DT24-004)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 13 Mar 2025, 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.

09:30 Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Introduction to Neurolinguistic Programming   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Introduction to Neurolinguistic Programming (SW24-167)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 13 Mar 2025, 09:30 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on understanding that Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is defined as a collection of models, techniques, and strategies for modelling excellence in order to help us better understand how our thought processes and behaviour, including how the language we use influences the way we think and the results we get. Modelling excellence in any field enables us to bring about a positive change in ourselves and others.

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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 (SW24-139)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 14 Mar 2025, 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 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? (SW24-032)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 14 Mar 2025, 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.

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09:00 Supervisor Training Modules 1-3   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 1-3 (SMT24-010)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 17 Mar 2025, 09:00 to 13:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This is for those wishing to become a Clinical Supervisor - to book a place, please email: england.facultydevelopment.sw@nhs.net

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09:20 Influence and Negotiation Skills for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Influence and Negotiation Skills for Doctors in Training (DT24-014)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 19 Mar 2025, 09:20 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.

09:20 Support the Doctor Returning to Training and Less than Full Time Trainee for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Support the Doctor Returning to Training and Less than Full Time Trainee for ES/CS/SAS (DT24-044)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 19 Mar 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop will assist you in helping support a PG DiT return to training after a period of absence and those who are completing their training working less than full time (LTFT).

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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 (SW24-086)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Thu 20 Mar 2025, 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 Maximising Your Personal Impact for Doctors in Training   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Maximising Your Personal Impact for Doctors in Training (SW24-099)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 20 Mar 2025, 09:30 to 12:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 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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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 (SW24-125)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 21 Mar 2025, 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 Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Healthy Team Dynamics   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Healthy Team Dynamics (SW24-165)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 21 Mar 2025, 09:30 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on developing approaches for healthy team dynamics. This day will include strategies for creating a healthy team environment, managing team dynamics, facilitating effective communication, and considering how we as individuals can play a part in influencing team culture and behaviours. It will be an interactive day and will help us reflect on ways to work towards growing a functional team where psychological safety and compassion are the norm.

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13:30 Supervisor Training Modules 4-5   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 4-5 (SMT24-015)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 24 Mar 2025, 13:30 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This is for those already accredited as Clinical Supervisors wishing to become Educational Supervisors - to book a place, please email: england.facultydevelopment.sw@nhs.net

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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 (SW24-130)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Wed 26 Mar 2025, 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 Understand how civility fits into your workplace for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Understand how civility fits into your workplace for ES/CS/SAS (SW24-143)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 28 Mar 2025, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Based on the latest behavioural science research, this workshop will help delegates better understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ civility is such an integral element of organisational culture. Civility in the workplace is vastly underestimated. Powerful levels of these interpersonal qualities can boost wellbeing, engagement, and commitment to common objectives, while the opposite has been proven to damage health, motivation, and performance.

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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 (SW24-157)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 31 Mar 2025, 09:00 to 12:30
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