Presentation about ELHT recruitment, pre-employment programme and fast-track training.

1. NHS Fast-track Recruitment – Healthcare
Assistant and Nursing Career Pathways
Welcome & Induction Session

2. Content for today
• Welcome and introductions
• Practicalities
• Your times on the programme
• What you need to complete the programme
successfully
• Intent/Implementation
• Pre-course items
• Moodle demonstration
• Next steps
• Invite for questions
• End

3. Introductions
• Michelle Walsh – Presenting tutor –
Lancashire Adult Learning
• Anita Houghton – Lancashire Adult Learning
• Sarah Bailey – Lancashire Adult Learning
michelle.walsh@nelsongroup.ac.uk – for
programme related enquiries

4. Practicalities of live sessions
• Please do not share personal details on group
chat/presentations
• Everyone will be on mute whilst the presentation
is taking place
• Type any questions and/or use the ‘hands up’
buttons in the chat pane – we’ll try and answer
them as we go along or we will go over them at
the end.
• Email any questions about the programme to
michelle.walsh@nelsongroup.ac.uk

5. Your Time
• Live sessions – Each day – these are on your activity
planner
• Tasks are set on Moodle in sections with timings on
your activity planner – These tasks should be
completed by the end of each to ensure you are on
track
• Optional training options (outside of planned
programme time)

6. What you need
• Access to a computer/laptop or tablet essential
• Internet
• Webcam/video capability
• Photo ID – For assessments on Friday
If you only have a mobile phone or just a tablet – You
need to email me this morning so we can check the
device capability of doing assessments whilst in a live
session with your camera on.
This is a requirement of completing the end assessments

7. What is the intent of the course?
To prepare you to effectively demonstrate skills,
relevant training, knowledge and attributes required to
be successful in application for the NHS Fast-track
recruitment programme.
These vacancies are with East Lancashire Hospital
Trust
The roles are;
1. Healthcare Assistant Pathway
2. Nursing Career Pathway

8. NHS Fast-track details – Pathway 1
Healthcare Assistant pathway (1)
Successful candidates will attend a full day (on-site)
Trust Induction followed by fast-track study, from home, for the
Care Certificate, delivered through on-line teaching over 1 or 2
weeks.
Attend a full day (weekend) skills induction / assessment on-
site at Burnley General Hospital.
Complete the Care Certificate competency booklet, and this will
require some self-study outside of the taught sessions.
Followed by 2 weeks supported work experience on one of
our wards*, during which time our trainees will be expected to
finalise their competency workbooks.
Successful candidates will have a guaranteed job offer, starting
immediately, at one of the Trust sites. (*this may include COVID
wards, but full PPE and training will be provided)

9. NHS Fast-track details – Pathway 2
Nursing Career Pathway (2)
Successful candidates will follow the same fast track training at the
HCA pathway.
On successful completion of this training, candidates will be offered an
apprenticeship contract.
The salary and terms and conditions will be the same as the HCA
candidates, but these individuals will be supported to undertake a
Level 3 Health & Social Care qualification, delivered by one of our local
College partners.
This will take approximately 18 months to complete and will involve
both on and off the job learning. On completion of this qualification,
candidates will continue to be employed as a Healthcare Assistant but
will have the experience and qualification to enable them to progress to
further study for other roles including Nursing Associate, Assistant
Practitioner or a Nursing Apprenticeship.
Trainees on either pathway will be employed on Bank contracts
for the duration of the training and paid for this training on
acceptance of a substantive contract.

10. Entry requirements
Applicants for both pathways must have:
• previous work experience – Not necessarily in the Care Industry
• demonstrable experience of managing competing demands
• a genuine desire to work in a healthcare support role
• ability to treat people with kindness and respect and demonstrate ELHT values
• a good standard of numeracy and literacy
• the ability to successfully complete the Care Certificate and ELHT mandatory training
requirements
• the ability to work flexibly on completion of training to meet the needs of their ward
In addition, applicants must be able to commit to the fast-track training requirements
outlined above and have access to a PC / internet at home to be able to undertake the
training (this can be done in 1-week full time or over 2 weeks part time).
In order to meet the entry criteria for further study, applicants for the Nursing career
pathway will have a level 2 (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths or the
ability to achieve this alongside their Level 3 vocational qualification.

11. Expected working hours and salary range
Full time Healthcare assistants usually work 37½ hours a week.
This will involve shift work, which could involve nights, early
starts, evenings and weekends.
In the NHS, HCAs are paid on the Agenda for Change pay
system. The starting salary for HCAs is Band 2, £18,005 (£9.21
ph) rising to £19,337 (£9.89 ph) after 2 years. This is
supplemented with generous unsocial hours allowances for
working in the evening, at night, over weekends and on Bank
holidays.
The Trust offers extensive support and flexibility to help staff
balance work and family life. To this end, opportunities are also
available for contracts that predominantly work evenings, nights
or weekends.

12. On this Pre-Employment
Programme, you will:
• Undertake relevant training and development to support with a
successful application for the Healthcare Assistant fast-track
programme
• Explore skills and qualities from various occupational areas
• Analyse a job description to understand the role and match your own
skills, training and knowledge to the requirements
• Consider how you can meet each of the NHS values during the role
• Submit tailored answers to application questions
• Consider how to apply the STAR technique to your own competencies
– To support during application/interview
• Have the opportunity to complete optional training and mock
interviews
• Undertake end-assessments to obtain qualifications covered in the
training
• Apply for the NHS Healthcare Assistant Fast-Track programme

13. Implementation
The programme will be delivered remotely
over a number of days and will include;
• Daily online live workshops delivered by a tutor
• Completion and submission of independent
tasks
• Feedback on tasks/draft application responses
• Daily online question and answer sessions
• Optional training – Such as Mental Health &
Well-being, Customer Service and mock
interviews (all available at request)

14. Pre-course information – You
should already have…
• Completed an initial Assessment
• Received your Moodle login details via email

15. Moodle demonstration
Please ask any questions in
the chat pane

16. Next Steps
• After this meeting you will be able to start completing tasks
which are set on Moodle
• These tasks are monitored and activity/scores/feedback
recorded
Access Moodle to complete the following;
Check the activity planner first so you know what the training looks like
• Exploring transferrable skills from different careers – 2 activities;
1. Read through skills from different careers presentation
2. Complete ‘Exploring occupational areas – Assessment’
After lunch;
• Working within the NHS Trust – 2 activities;
1. Read job information/job description and why work for the NHS documents
2. Complete ‘Working within the NHS Trust – Assignment 1’

17. Questions
• Questions from the chat pane
• Any one with only a mobile device (phone/tablet)
must get in contact today, as we need to arrange a
live meeting to check your device capability to allow
the running of video whilst doing assessments
• Email: michelle.walsh@nelsongroup.ac.uk
• Next live session is 9:30am tomorrow on
MOODLE