Information for trainees
Sharing good practice webinar series
In many areas of our work, we receive requests to support trainers in the workplace by connecting them with each other and, in particular, by helping them learn from centres and colleagues that have developed good training practice.
As you may be aware, this year the School is launching a new initiative in which we run regular webinars featuring trainers or trainer networks sharing their practice.
We are pleased to announce that we have two confirmed webinars, as follows:
AI in training and clinical practice
Tuesday 30 April 2024 – 2pm to 3pm
Please click this link for further details and to register
Approaches to the delivery of the STP
Wednesday 22 May 2024 – 10am to 11am
Please click this link for further details and to register
Both of the webinars will be recorded and will be available on our website.
If you or your network have developed practice that you feel could be valuable to share with your peers, please express an interest in sharing your practice via the form linked to below.
Click here to express an interest in contributing to our sharing good practice webinar series
Information for supervisors
IAPS Examiner Forum
We’d like to invite you to the May 2024 IAPS diet Examiner Forum with Dr Owen Driskell on Wednesday 21 March 2024 from 10am to 12pm, via MS Teams. If you would like to register an interest in becoming an IAPS Examiner, or if you are already an examiner and would like to attend the forum please email england.nshcs.assessment@nhs.net
This year the May 2024 IAPS diet will run from 13 to 24 May. The purpose of this forum is to provide:
- an opportunity for IAPS examiners to share experiences
- a place to discuss the assessment, discuss approaches, best practice, and keep up-to-date
- an opportunity for a discussion between IAPS examiners across the different HSST disciplines
- an opportunity for the School to report back on assessment performance and update on process
- an opportunity to review feedback from candidates, examiners, and observers
Even if you have not examined in the IAPS before, this is the perfect opportunity to hear more about it, find out how the IAPS is delivered and learn from more experienced examiners. This forum is to share thoughts, experiences, and provide an opportunity for examiners to gain a wider understanding and standardised feel for examination at Consultant Clinical Scientist level. We look forward to seeing you there!
Sharing good practice webinar series
In many areas of our work, we receive requests to support trainers in the workplace by connecting them with each other and, in particular, by helping them learn from centres and colleagues that have developed good training practice.
As you may be aware, this year the School is launching a new initiative in which we run regular webinars featuring trainers or trainer networks sharing their practice.
We are pleased to announce that we have two confirmed webinars, as follows:
AI in training and clinical practice
Tuesday 30 April 2024 – 2pm to 3pm
Please click this link for further details and to register
Approaches to the delivery of the STP
Wednesday 22 May 2024 – 10am to 11am
Please click this link for further details and to register
Both of the webinars will be recorded and will be available on our website.
If you or your network have developed practice that you feel could be valuable to share with your peers, please express an interest in sharing your practice via the form linked to below.
Click here to express an interest in contributing to our sharing good practice webinar series
Supporting health professionals to Return to Practice
The NHS England Return to Practice programme supports returners to return to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Register offering:
- financial support
- academic support
- pastoral support
- connection to find a supervised practice placement
If you are an organisation interested in finding out how returners can support you to grow your workforce, then please get in touch. For more information visit the Return to Practice website or email england.r2pahp-hcs@nhs.net
Click here to visit the Return to Practice website
Induction webinar for new supervisors
If you are new to the role of workplace supervisor and will be taking responsibility for a HSST trainee, this event is essential and is part of the accreditation process.
Our next available webinar is on Thursday 18 April 2024 – 10am to 3pm. If you have previously registered for this event, prior to 23 February 2024, you will have received an email informing you that you will need to re-register. This is due to a technical difficulty with the original Teams link.
Opportunities to become an IAPS Examiner – Physiological Sciences, Physical Sciences & Bioinformatics Sciences
With the increase of HSST trainees joining the HSST programme, our IAPS assessments are growing from diet to diet. We recently held our November IAPS and can report the assessment was our highest intake of candidates to date since the assessments were created.
HSSTs across a wider number of specialisms are approaching completion of the HSST programmes. As a result, we are looking to expand the talent pool of examiners to deliver an increasing number of IAPS. Some recent achievements have been the successful recruitment of examiners for new specialisms such as Urodynamic Science and Neurophysiology.
If you are supporting a HSST trainee, becoming an IAPS examiner can give you further insight into supporting your candidates throughout the HSST programme. It will provide you with a direct understanding of what is expected from your candidates for their IAPS assessments. Workplace supervisors who have become examiners have fed back how beneficial it was to their role as a workplace supervisor.
Click here to read Peter’s experience as an IAPS Examiner
Click here to view further information on the examiner role description and eligibility criteria
Missed a previous edition of the HSST Monthly Memo?
We’ve published copies of the Monthly Memo for HSST trainees and training officers on our website.
Click here to view previous editions of the HSST Monthly Memo.