This newsletter provides updates on education, mentorship, and clinical placements within Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. Key points include: - The trust manages a mentor register and staff should ensure their records are up to date. Mentors must complete updates and triennial reviews. - The trust supports various education programs including a Care Certificate program, apprenticeships, and a new fast track program for newly qualified nurses. - The trust partners with universities to provide clinical placements for nursing and AHPS students, hosting 374 nursing students and 489 AHPS weeks of placements in 2015-2016. Audits of placement areas are conducted every two years.

1. Professional Focus
Editor – Tracey Hilton, Senior Clinical Placement Facilitator
Welcome to the latest edition of Professional Focus.
This newsletter is dedicated to Education, why it is important,
How we support it and what that means for our future workforce
The Clinical Education team currently manages a live Mentor Register which is located on our
Intranet site:
http://srv-intranet/nonclinicalservices/cep/Lists/Mentor%20Register/AllItems.aspx
It is important that you let us know if your record is up to date or if you need to be added.
If you are aware of any mentors leaving the trust, please inform us so we can remove them
accordingly.
Mentor updates;
If you are due to attend a mentor update (you will receive a notification
if you are out of date), please book on to a course via ESR
If you have any queries relating to your mentor update, please refer to our guidance on the hub
http://thehub/ourteams/learning/Pages/Mentor-Practice-teacher---pre-and-post-registration-nursing.aspx
Triennial Review
Staff will receive notifications regarding their triennial review on a three yearly basis. This review
needs to be completed with your Line Manager and the documentation sent to the practice
placements team to record.
If you have any queries relating to the triennial review – why is it done? What do I need to do?,
please refer to our guidance on the hub or contact them team directly –
practice.placements@clch.nhs.uk
Addressing the needs of students and Educators across the
Organisation
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Address
Central London Community
Healthcare NHS Trust
7th Floor
64 Victoria Street
London SW1E 6QP
Contact
Tracey Hilton
tracey.hilton@clch.nhs.uk
020 7798 1486
Summary for July 2016
 Bucks Careers Fair
 Care Certificate
 Developing Multi-professional Health Educators
for the Future
 DoH Connecting and Engagement Programme
Mentorship
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We will keep you
updated on what we
are doing, where we
are going and who we
are seeing!

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Tracey Hilton took over as Interim Training Delivery Manager from 1st
April.
This training applies to all new starters (substantive and bank staff band 1-4) who have
commenced employment from 1st
April 2015. A higher care certificate is being
developed for healthcare support workers who have been in post prior to 1st
April 2015.
The training is being delivered over an 8-week period as part of new starters’ induction
to CLCH.
The London Community Healthcare providers (CNWL NHS Trust, CLCH and Hounslow
and Richmond Community Healthcare) are collaborating to deliver the Care Certificate
training.
The Care Certificate is made up of 15 standards, all of which learners will need to meet
before they can be awarded the ‘Care Certificate’
From Jan 15 – Mar 16, 195 learners booked on to the Care Certificate programme.
71 from CLCH, 92 from CNWL, 16 from HRCH, 11 from Milton Keynes and 5 x GPs
If you have any queries relating to the Care Certificate, please contact
Tracey.hilton@clch.nhs.uk
Care Certificate Programme
Congratulations to the
following staff who have
received their Care
Certificate award;
Katerina Skalicka
Joanna Wisniewska
Chamila Thilakaratne
Lilian Wanjiru
Naiva Gyabi
Fatemeh Afrouz
Emma Musinguzi
Dominique Neuvill-Samuel
Melanie Batard
Nadia Ali
Alan O’Malley
Keri McMillan
Well done to you all!
Pictured – Care certificate training
Tracey Hilton
Interim Training Delivery Manager
Tracey.hilton@clch.nhs.uk

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Evaluating a project to support the development of placements capacity in Child Community and Primary Care
Placement
Jumoke’s abstract was accepted for poster display at the 2016
‘Developing Multi-professional Health Educators for the Future’ Conference
at the Kia Oval on 28th
June
The conference was organised by the Professional Development Department
on behalf of the Health Education North Central and East London, Health
Education North West London and Health Education South London in pursuit
of professional development and educational excellence, by promoting
educational research and innovation in healthcare education.
The poster is an abstract of the HENWL project Jumoke is working on in
collaboration with LSBU to build organisational capacity for pre-registration
nursing placements in the community. The project supports NHS 5 year
forward view; to shift health care closer to home. To achieve this, we need to
prepare our future nurses to work in a variety of settings to ensure that their
training and learning experience should be population based with an
integrated approach (Lord Willis 2012)
A different approach to mentoring in new placements is currently being
piloted across CLCH sites. The project will be evaluated at the end of the pilot.
Virtual patients
Asha Sharma and Nick Archetta spent an interesting morning with the medical education team at St Georges University. They
looked at innovations in teaching and learning and in particular the development of virtual patients scenarios to support
medical students learning.
The software is called openlabyrinth which is free to download and enables organisations to create their own virtual patients.
St Georges have developed their own suite of scenarios which they use as follows:
1) Group discussion with students using problem solving approach
2) Students self-assessment.
3) Supporting students’ knowledge around ethics using a scenario based approach.
If anyone is interested, I would suggest that they open the link highlighted in green below;
Example of Virtual Patient on Virtual Patients http://vp.openlabyrinth.ca/renderLabyrinth/index/109
There is also a project which commenced in January which aims to share knowledge and learning in relation to this subject
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Clinical Education Audits
From 2014 – 2016, CLCH worked in partnership with Kings college, UoH,
Bucks New University, Kingston and St Georges and UWL to carry out
Educational audits across 79 clinical services.
These services currently facilitate our pre-registration student placements.
Such audits need to be carried out every two years. The cycle will commence again
in October.
If your service would like to be involved in student learning, please contact our team;
Practice.placements@clch.nhs.uk
Careers Fair – Buckinghamshire New University
We actively participate in recruitment days across the various HEIs. It is a great
Opportunity to engage with students and promote CLCH
Department of Health – Connecting and Engagement Programme 2016
CLCH has partnered with the DoH ‘Connecting to patients and people who use services’
initiative. This programme is specifically designed to provide DH staff the opportunity to
see how care is being delivered first hand.
This June, we offered 3 x DoH fast streamers working within government policy
an opportunity to shadow our walk in centres, Community Nursing and School Nursing
services.
See feedback below;
‘I had a brilliant time. I feel like I learnt a huge amount over the two days, and it really
Was eye opening to hear (and see) first-hand all the challenges involved in their work.
Both of the people I was shadowing were very experienced nurses and manager of
Nurse-led services, and had a huge amount of information and insight to share.
Many thanks to the Clinical Education team for organising this opportunity to connect
And the teams for being so welcoming and engaging over the two days.
Will. DoH
Student Figures
In 2015/16, CLCH supported
374 pre-registration students
(Adult and Child)
These allocations were sent to
us from six of our partners
Universities.
This equates to 2224 weeks’
worth of placements during
that time.
For AHPS, we offered 489
weeks’ worth of practice
across services such as
Occupational Therapy, Physio,
speech and language therapy
and podiatry.
CLCH Representation
Please always carry out a PC
check before logging onto ESR
www.esrsupport.co.uk
If you require assistance,
contact the service desk;
clchservicedesk@capita.co.uk

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Latest News and updates – NHS
Over 55 million patients in England are set to benefit from accessing their GP record
online.
Patients in England will be able to view test results as they come in and keep track of
their glucose levels and cholesterol on their smartphones, enabling them to take
greater control of their care and better manage their health.
Official figures reveal that over 95% of GP practices are now set up to offer online
access to detailed GP records including test results and diagnose as well as referrals,
immunisations, procedures and medications history. This is up from just 3% of
practices in January this year.
This latest step is part of a raft of online GP services available to patients, which are
designed to make their lives easier and more convenient including online appointment
booking and ordering of repeat prescriptions.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2016/07/gp-records-online/
NHS England.
The Public believes that the government should continue to pay for the pre-
registration training of student nurses and midwives, according to a survey carried out
for a major union
http://www.nursingtimes.net/news/education/public-against-axing-of-student-nurse-
bursaries/7006089.article?blocktitle=Most-popular&contentID=-1
The Nursing and Midwifery council (NMC) will now allow nurses and midwives to pay
their annual registration fee in quarterly instalments.
Switching to this type of payment must be done 20 days before the first of the month
in which a nurse or midwifes’ annual fee is due.
A full guide to paying the NMC fee can be found on the NMC website
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/nmc-allows-nurses-pay-annual-registration-
fee-instalments
If you have any feedback or queries, please contact the placements team.
“Nursing is a career that I had
never thought about being part of
until I saw the positive impact a
great nurse can have on a patient
experience whilst my dad
underwent treatment for
Liposarcoma.
I was adamant that King’s was
where I wanted to study. During
the first week of starting university
we were given our host trust. Now
being 100% honest, I was upset to
find out that I was placed on a new
programme where you spend
more time in primary and
community services with CLCH
than in the hospital.
However I can say now that it was
a blessing in disguise. I have had
an opportunity to work with
amazing nurses who are interested
in your learning development
needs. Their enthusiasm with
patients care and knowledge of
conditions and treatment is
inspiring. I have experienced a
broad range of conditions in the
community and have been
fascinated at what the district
nurses are able to deliver in the
patient’s homes.
Also whilst on placements I have
been able to attend other services
and observe how the multi-
disciplinary team work together to
make sure a clear individualised
care plan is set up.
CLCH have given me an amazing
first year experience and I would
like to thank everyone who has
been involved in my learning. I
look forward to being part of a
new pathway to nursing and have
high hope for the next two years of
my degree.”
Francesca Hodge
KCL Host student
Sep-15 BSc

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Fast Track
We are in the throes of delivering our new innovative fast track programme. This programme recruits band 5 nurses within 6 months of
qualifying enrolling them on a 12 month structured work-based training programme. Through preceptorship, completion of a competency
framework and education, the programme guides newly qualified adult nurses or adult nurses returning to practice through a bespoke
pathway. Whilst undertaking the role of band 5 staff nurse those enrolled are then able to progress to a band 6 nursing post at the end of
the 12 month programme.
Our first cohort of nurses started in May and we have a further cohort of 16 nurses starting in September 2016.We look forward to
welcoming them on what should be a phenomenal journey.
Apprenticeships
What are Apprenticeships?
Apprenticeships are work-based training programmes, designed with employers, which combine on and off the job learning and
development activities. They are used to develop employees who are in new job roles including higher level roles.
Six of our health care support workers from Children’s Division have joined our first cohort of apprentices that started their training in June.
We will also have a cohort of 9 assistant practitioner apprentice starting in September 2015.
There will be a wide variety of apprenticeship training opportunities for all existing staff going forward. Please look out for more
information on our apprenticeship page that will be launched shortly. If you are interested or have any queries please contact- Marcia
Pinnock Roye, Clinical Education and Practice Lead.
Nursing Celebrations Day – Thursday 30
th
June
This was the second celebration event that we have run for our district nursing services. The purpose is to bring together staff from across
our services, to celebrate achievemets, share ideas and network with colleages. Forty peole attended the afternoon held at the Indian
YMCA.
The event opened with a buffet lunch and stands providing information on end of life care, educational opportunities and patient
experience along with posters of DN team leader projects.
Holly Ashforth opened the event, providing an overviw of our Achiveing Excellence Together campaign which is focussed on improving
morale and the quality of care within district nursing. This was also the final day of the current band 7 district nursing clinical leadership
programme. Holly congratulated those who had completed the programme and discussed some of the important facets of learning from
this whilst also highlighting the range of projects that they are focusing on within their teams and services.
Emily Karugaba, Clinical Nurse Lead and Sulekha Ali, Locality Manager provided an update on the current approaches to recruitment and
retention within our district nursing services. This included a update on targeting university career fairs with new materials, the rolling
recruitment programmes that are in place, our overseas recruitment drive and recruitment to a fast-track programme.
There were then facilitated table discussions which looked at 4 topics of promoting self care of staff members, enabling team working in an
agile / mobile environment, supporting staff development and defining professionalism.
Rosie Waskett, Associate Director of Quality, concluded the afternoon by presenting certicifates to those who had completed the district
nursing clincial leadership programme.

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A message from the Team;
As always, we would like to thank our mentors/practice educators for their continuous support with student education.
We understand at times this can be a challenge. With large student numbers and a need to increase our mentor database, it may
feel a little overwhelming at times.
We are extremely proud of the positive feedback we receive and feel secure in the knowledge that students’ are receiving an
excellent placement experience across the Organisation.
Link Lecturers;
Irene Zeller (Kings College) – Irene.zeller@kcl.ac.uk; Carole Trespaderne (Bucks) – carole.trespaderne@bucks.ac.uk ; Cynthia Davis
(Kingston & St Georges) – Cynthia.davis@sgul.kingston.ac.uk; Lynne Henderson (University of Hertfordshire) –
c.henderson@herts.ac.uk; Beth Wilson – wilsonb7@lsbu.ac.uk ; Hannah Lyman – Hannah.lyman@uwl.ac.uk
The Learning Team - Statutory and Mandatory Training
The Refresher Statutory Mandatory Programme is designed to help to improve the standard of care and service delivery across
health and care sectors.
To ensure you are up to date, please visit our page on the hub; Learning Team / Courses
For further information, please contact:
Marcia Daley, Head of Learning and Development (020 8937 7980)
Sarah Hesni, Interim Learning and Development Team Leader (020 7798 1472)
Naaznin Khaki, Learning and Development Service Coordinator (020 8937 7172)
Carmen Tulloch, Learning and Development Coordinator (020 8937 7152)
Pauline Namwanje, Learning and Development Coordinator (020 7798 1474) - maternity leave
Sima Kazemzadeh, Learning and Development Administrator (020 7798 1478)
L&D@clch.nhs.uk
Clinical and Professional Education (Learning Team):
Providing a range of learning opportunities within CLCH. The team is focused on providing an excellent quality service and works
closely with Directorates and Service Leads to fully understand their learning needs.
For further information, please contact:
Tracy Stevenson, Head of Clinical and Professional Education (020 7798 1492)
Marcia Pinnock, Clinical Education and Practice Lead (020 7798 1475)
Asha Sharma, Practice Placements Coordinator (020 7798 1485)
Tracey Hilton, Senior Clinical Placements Facilitator/Interim Training Delivery Manager (Care Cert) (020 7798 1486)
Nira Varsani, Practice Placements Facilitator (020 7798 1488)
Nicolas Archetta, Professional and Clinical Education Administrator (020 7798 1482)
Jumoke Oladipupo, Practice Educators – Pre-registration (020 7798 1481)