Information for trainees
HSST Induction 2024
We recently welcomed the new intake of HSST trainees at the HSST Induction 2024 in Manchester. The presentations from the induction day are available to view and download on the School website.
View and download presentations from the induction day
Have Your Say: Complete the National Education and Training Survey (NETS)
NETS is the only national survey open to all healthcare students, trainees and apprentices, including resident doctors and dentists in postgraduate training.
NETS offers a platform to share your experiences and shape the future of healthcare education. Your feedback helps us make informed decisions to enhance learning environments, support retention and recruitment.
Take 10 minutes to share your experiences! The survey is open until Tuesday 26 November 2024.
Go to the NETS survey to share your experiences
Information for trainees and supervisors
Introduction to OneFile for HSST trainees and supervisors
Thursday 31 October 2024 – 10am to 11am
Join us for an introduction to OneFile where we will show you how to navigate the system, set up your submissions and give you some top tips and tricks to ensure you get the most out of the e-portfolio software during the HSST.
Sign up for the OneFile webinar
New trial approach to progression monitoring
This year we will be trialling a new approach to progression monitoring based on current resources and feedback from HSSTs who have completed our previous approach to progression monitoring.
At this stage in the programme we would invite you to organise a training review meeting (between HSST trainee and workplace supervisor) to specifically discuss this year’s progression against previous targets. In the review meeting we would encourage you to discuss:
- academic progression
- workplace progression against the GSP domains in OneFile
- professional qualifications (FRCPath, CEng, IAPS)
- targets and timeline for HSST completion
This is also an opportunity to update your training plan and to consider your timelines in conjunction with your HSST end of funding date and your HSST completion deadline.
In a similar way to the process we have introduced for STP progression monitoring, we would encourage you to have this meeting recorded using the review meeting tool in OneFile. In OneFile the review meeting needs to be set up by the workplace supervisor. The notes that you record in the review meeting tool, using the headings above, can be used to monitor progress, inform support calls and support completion processes. Watch this short video on how to record a review meeting on OneFile.
This year we will not be issuing formal progression outcomes. Feedback has suggested that these outcomes do not always reflect a trainee’s or supervisor’s experience. Instead, we invite all trainees and supervisors to directly contact our HSST Training Programme Directors (Lisa Ayers lisa.ayers2@nhs.net and Owen Driskell o.driskell@nhs.net) if they wish to organise a support call about progression. We hope this change will better target our support services to those who most need them.
We will continue to review HSST progression monitoring going forward.
We would also wish to remind all trainees and supervisors that training support is available all year round and not just at progression points.
Read about your main sources of support during training
Information for supervisors
Register for the November Healthcare Science Education and Training Collaborative
Our next Healthcare Science Education and Training Collaborative will take place online on the afternoon of Tuesday 12 November 2024.
We are very excited that our new Head of School, Professor Delia Ripley, will be opening the online Collaborative in November.
At the Collaborative, we plan to provide an update on recruitment for STP, the year 1 progression review and the new final assessment.
We will be looking at the other healthcare science courses that the NSHCS have helped to develop, both from the perspective of the providers and from recent alumni. Come and see what else the School has to offer beyond the commissioned programmes of STP, ETP and HSST.
The Collaborative will close with a presentation from Vicky Chalker, Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, NHS England, who will be expanding on the presentation she gave at the face-to-face Collaborative in March about the future of healthcare science.
View the agenda for the November collaborative
Register for the November collaborative
Sharing Good Practice
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.
We are pleased to announce that we have the following confirmed webinars:
Neuroinclusive communication
Wednesday 16 October 2024 – 10am to 11am
View further details and register for this event (expired link)
UKAS Accreditation – making quality improvement part of your journey
Wednesday 20 November 2024 – 10am to 11:30am
View further details and register for this event
Sharing Good Practice – Managing training
Thursday 5 December 2024 – 10:30am to 11:30am
View further details and register for this event
If you would like to present at this webinar, please email our Education Training Manager, Sally Clee at england.nshcs.training@nhs.net
Strength in numbers – the benefits of a Training Consortium
Tuesday 17 December 2024 – 2pm to 3pm
View further details and register for this event
The webinars will be recorded and 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.
Express an interest in contributing to our Sharing Good Practice webinar series
HSST Train the Trainer
Thursday 17 October 2024 – 10am to 3pm
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. During this webinar, we will introduce you to the programme and your responsibilities as a workplace supervisor.
Register for HSST Train the Trainer (expired link)
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.