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  • Band 7 Education and Development Opportunities

  • This information is the options available to Band 7 nurses within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. All opportunities need to be confirmed with your line manager and the relevant trust policy must be followed.

  • Leadership (MBA) Masters Apprenticeship

    This a 2 year course that helps you learn how to be a senior leader looking at all aspects of the NHS as a business, during this programme you will learn advanced leadership skills, finance, change management, project analysis and complete a research project.

  • Clinical (ACP) Masters Apprenticeship

    Advanced clinical practice (ACP) is a defined level of practice within clinical professions such as nursing, pharmacy, paramedics and occupational therapy. This level of practice is designed to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries.

    Advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) are healthcare professionals, educated to Master’s level or equivalent, with the skills and knowledge to allow them to expand their scope of practice to better meet the needs of the people they care for.  ACPs are deployed across all healthcare settings and work at a level of advanced clinical practice that pulls together the four ACP pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research. (NHS England 2024)

  • Oxlead Programme (currently under review)

    It will support you in your ambitions to become a first-class leader and help us to develop compassionate and inclusive leaders across the trust.

    Our OxLead Early Leaders Programme will develop compassionate and inclusive leaders. With a focus on our organisational values – ‘we’re kind, we’re fair, we listen, we care’ – we will support you in finding your leadership voice, building effective teams and creating safe environments where patient experience, improvement, innovation and performance are central to the delivery of quality patient care

     

  • NHS Leadership Academy

    You could do specialist leadership courses focused around healthcare leadership to prepare you for more senior roles, such as the Mary Seacole Programme. Please find more infomation here.

  • Mental Health CPD Opportunities

    You are welcome to find appropriate stand alone training that is fundamental for role. Funding could be available if the training course is appropriate to your role and your manager supports this course. Please find the programme you want to do and discuss it with your line manager. A good place to start is with local universities.

    Physical Health CPD Opportunities

    You are welcome to find appropriate stand alone training that is fundamental for role. Funding could be available if the training course is appropriate to your role and your manager supports this course. Please find the programme you want to do and discuss it with your line manager. A good place to start is with local universities.

    Learning Disability CPD Opportunities

    You are welcome to find appropriate stand alone training that is fundamental for role. Funding could be available if the training course is appropriate to your role and your manager supports this course. Please find the programme you want to do and discuss it with your line manager. A good place to start is with local universities.

    Children and Young People's CPD Opportunities

    You are welcome to find appropriate stand alone training that is fundamental for role. Funding could be available if the training course is appropriate to your role and your manager supports this course. Please find the programme you want to do and discuss it with your line manager. A good place to start is with local universities.

    Free Learning Opportunities

    NHS Elect

    For a wide selection of leadership courses and webinars where you can learn more about leadership, coaching, mentoring, managing a team, and QI please register here

    E-Learning For Health

    For a wide selection of e-learning modules focused on clinical skills for all nurses please register here

    Online E-Learning

    For additional in house training opportunities please check on the trust learning centre by clicking here

    Online Clinical Skills Training

    For awareness of clinical skills such as dressings, vital signs and communication skills please register here

    Apprenticeships

    It is a set of government approved requirements that employers use as a group to set the skills, knowledge, and behaviours of a specific occupation at a specific level.

    English and maths at level 1 or 2 are a mandatory requirement, sometimes other qualifications are included, up to Level 7 Masters.

    Please find more info here: https://theox.oxleas.nhs.uk/clinical-resources/apprenticeships/ – Access to this will be available to Trust staff only

    Research Opportunities

    There are often research opportunities within the organisation, such as degree and masters programmes in leadership and clinical research.

    They are often short term chances and need to be applied for quickly. Please contact: oxl-tr.oxleaskls@nhs.net for more details.

    Additional opportunities include:

    • Shadowing research team
    • Get involved in research projects
    • CPD Opportunities
    • Funding for academic programmes (MSc)
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