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We have a robust Preceptorship programme which supports all newly registered or return to practice health professionals (including AHP’s), including Nursing Associates and Internationally Recruited Professionals

The purpose is to support them into the Trust and to ease them through the transition to autonomous professional

Definitions

Preceptee – the person who is taking part in the Programme
Meet one of our Preceptees - Shaun Briers

Preceptor – the person who supports the Preceptee
Meet one of our Preceptors - Alan Haddy

Meet the team

Preceptorship Leads 

  • Nichola Thomason (Operational)
  • Lyndsey Ford (Clinical)

Nichola and Lyndsey develop the programme and strategy, deliver the structured sessions and provide pastoral support as identified

Preceptorship Facilitators

  • Mental Health Care Division - Nurses/Nurse Associates– Jacqui Fuller
  • Secure Care Division  - Nurses/Nurse Associates – Emma Wilkinson
  • Community Care Division  - Nurses/Nurse Associates – Adelia Shaw, Phoebe Dickinson, Eleanor McNicholas
  • AHP’s Trust Wide – Jean Clare  jean.clare@merseycare.nhs.uk

The role of the Preceptorship Facilitator is to provide one-to-one support for whatever issues the Preceptee may be having. They also support the completion of the Competency framework which is integral to the Preceptorship Programme

They also promote the use of the (Award winning) phone App which hosts all the information a Preceptee and Preceptor need and can be used to sign off the Competencies.

The attached document is the One Page Profile which provides further detail about the Preceptorship Programme.

If you need any further information or support please do not hesitate to contact jean.clare@merseycare.nhs.uk

The Trust has made a decision to standardise uniforms across the Trust during 2022 whilst we await the outcome of the National Healthcare Uniform. On Wednesday 9th February we held an engagement session where we shared that white smart scrub tops with a coloured trim and navy trousers with the option of a smart scrub dress have been agreed in line with the National consultation as the standard style for Allied Health Professions (AHP’s). The reasons for standardising our uniform are:

  • Enable patients / service users / families / carers to recognise our AHP’s as a priority
  • Staff know who is who in busy ward / hub / clinic environments
  • Provide AHP’s who have been wearing scrubs or a generic uniform throughout the pandemic with a recognised uniform
  • Give AHP’s a professional identity and the option of wearing a uniform the same as other professions
  • Standardise the style of uniform we wear across clinical professions to improve professional image
  • Standardise the colour ways per profession to avoid confusion across Divisions
  • IPC Measures: bare below the elbow and able to wash uniform at 60 degrees

Please take a look at the AHP Uniform Standardisation Presentation to find out more

If you have further feedback or questions please email the generic inbox below with the subject header ‘AHP’ then your Division and Team e.g. ‘AHP Community Dietetics’

uniformstandardisation@merseycare.nhs.uk 

Educator Training

All AHPs

UoM

Qualtrics will allow staff to sign up to the new practice educators session on 07/01/2025 or the experienced educators session on 08/01/2025. Calendar invites will then be sent out at a later date. 

MMU are currently offering free online educator training, please see the details below that can be cascaded to educators (if you require further information please contact Deborah O’Connor – d.oconnor@mmu.ac.uk):

Do you work in a health or social care setting? Do you support learners within your role?

Manchester Metropolitan University are delighted to offer you the opportunity to complete a flexible, online learning package that enables you to explore how you can most effectively support (and assess) learners in health and social care settings/ your workplace.

Funded by GM Workforce Collaborative, this one-day online training course is suitable for all levels of practitioners working within health and social care settings.  The course can be completed flexibly, alongside your other time commitments and is designed to enable you to further develop in your role supporting learners. Resources offered include learner videos, real-life scenarios and self-assessment activities within a workbook. Completing this course will enable you to protect some time to consider key themes around learner development that you can relate to your own workplace setting.

A certificate of completion is available and can be used within your professional development portfolio.

The first 250 places are completely free.

To access the course you will need to go to Birley Place, and login using the following details:

Username: PLATOuser

Password: 17-Roy-Road

The link to this course will be provided in the top right hand corner once you have logged in, as shown:

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Physiotherapy

MMU

At MMU we have combined our previous face to face new educators day 1 and day 2 training and our experienced educators training day into one online training resource for all our educators. We are also running MS Teams sessions to compliment this training for any educators who feel that they would benefit from attending these.

The online course can be completed independently at times to suit individual clinicians commitments and diary, they will have 6 months to complete it from the time their account is set up. The MS Teams sessions are on set days and times, there is no requirement to attend any of these to complete the training, but we hope that they provide clinicians with additional support, and the feedback we have had from these is that clinicians who have attended have found them to be useful.

There are currently 12 parts to our Educator Training

Part 1            Introduction

Part 2            Effective Learning

Part 3            Teaching Styles

Part 4            Learning Styles

Part 5            Task Analysis

Part 6            Learning Development Plans

Part 7            Placement Preparation and Expectations

Part 8            Supporting and Challenging all Learners

Part 9            Placement Learning and Learning Environments

Part 10          Equality and Diversity

Part 11          Assessment Process

Part 12          Useful Links, Conclusion and Thanks

All the parts are designed so they can be completed within 30-60 minutes and clinicians can complete the training at a rate and times to suit them. Once registered clinicians have access to the resources for 6 months. When they have completed all the parts, in part 12 there is a form for them to complete and submit and from that certificates of completion are created each month.  The certificates are emailed to the clinicians.

Each clinician will take different lengths of time for each section as alongside the information provided there are activities to be completed and we would expect different clinicians to need to take longer to reflect more on some areas.

The MS Teams sessions are for 2 ½ hours each and have a specific focus, once details are confirmed for these, we then notify all the clinicians who have registered for the online educator training of the sessions and they can register if they would like to attend a session.

Register here

Occupational Therapy

University of Liverpool 

Introductory Educator Course

Half Day Refresher Workshop

Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Educator Training  

The next training sessions will be as follows:

For New Practice Educators - Wednesday 6 September 10am to 3pm

For Experienced Practice Educators - Wednesday 13 September 10am to 12.30pm

Both sessions will be held on teams.

To book on to the relevant session please contact Caroline Spivey. Clinical Administrator via Caroline.Spivey@manchester.ac.uk

In Mersey Care, we run events throughout the year to support our staff with education.

Nutrition and Hydration Week 2024

We ran a series of CPD Sessions, delivered by our Dietitians and Speech and Language Therapists. Click on the below links to review the presentations

The guide below has been developed to raise the profile and importance of a career conversations and pulls together a range of contemporary resources, tools and guidance for registered and non-registered AHPs and their managers to help facilitate good quality career conversations.

Career Conversations