Information for trainees
STP Final Year Assessment – assessment dates and times released
We have now provided all trainees sitting the STP Final Year Assessment next month with the date and time of their assessment. If you have not received this information, please let us know.
You can find out more about how to prepare for the assessment on the School’s website. It is absolutely vital that you familiarise yourself with this information.
Read about how to prepare for the Final Year Assessment
Are you interested in supporting the STP Induction 2025?
We are looking for trainee volunteers to represent the STP during our online induction. The event will take place on Microsoft Teams over 2 half-days, Wednesday 10 September 2025 and Thursday 11 September 2025.
The trainee volunteer roles we wish to fill are:
Panel member
We are hosting a session with a panel of current trainees. We are looking for panel members to provide advice to new trainees and answer questions from the audience. If you are interested in volunteering as a panel member, please complete this short survey.
Networking representative
As part of the agenda we would like to offer trainees the opportunity to network with representatives from their host universities and the trainee networks. As a result, we are seeking representatives to join us on day 2 of induction.
As a trainee network representative you will present the role of the regional networks and be available to answer questions about your trainee network and how new trainees can get involved. If you are interested in representing your trainee network, please complete this short survey.
As a university trainee representative, you will be available to answer questions about studying at the university and share any advice or tips for the new trainees that will be attending this year. If you are interested in representing your university, please complete this short survey.
This is a fantastic opportunity for trainees to develop their public speaking skills and support the new intake starting in September.
Do you need support with your Developmental Training Activities (DTAs)?
We have developed a resource in the NHS Learning Hub to support you with developing evidence for DTAs. It includes the recording of the webinar ‘Developing evidence for Developmental Training Activities’.
To access the resources, you will need an NHS Learning Hub account. If you have an NHS email address create your account on the NHS Learning Hub website. If you do not have an NHS email address please complete this short form.
View the ‘Developing evidence for Developmental Training Activities (DTAs) resource
Are you interested in sharing your training practice?
If you would like to share with your fellow trainees how you have approached any aspect of the ‘Professional Foundations of Healthcare and Clinical Science’ module, please express an interest in sharing your practice via the form linked to below.
Express an interest in sharing your training practice
Information for training officers
STP Final Year Assessment – key information for assessors
We have now published everything that assessors need to know about assessing on the STP Final Year Assessment on the School website. If you are assessing, it is absolutely vital that you familiarise yourself with all of this information well before the assessment.
If you’d like to assess at a future sitting of the assessment, you can sign up to join the assessor bank
Read the guidance for assessors on the STP Final Year Assessment
Chief Scientific Officer Healthcare Science webinar series
The Office of the Chief Scientific Officer at NHS England would like to invite you to a healthcare science webinar series. The purpose of these webinars is to provide the latest information and to engage with healthcare scientists on relevant topics.
The first webinar, which will focus on the healthcare science workforce, will be on Monday 30 June 2025 11am to 12noon. This will provide an overview of the healthcare science workforce, including the latest data and insights, plans and developments in education and training.
If you would like to receive invites to the series, please register your interest. Following registration, the invites will be sent to you in a separate email.
Please feel free to forward this email on to your healthcare science colleagues, including trainees. The webinar is open to healthcare science professionals at all levels. We would also like to encourage you to register for the CSO’s healthcare science bulletin.
Register your interest in the CSO Healthcare Science webinar series
STP accreditation – annual monitoring to recommence in July
Our annual monitoring return will be recommencing using our revised process from Monday 28 July 2025. All departments accredited on or before 28 July 2024 (including reaccredited departments) are required to complete annual monitoring as part of their accreditation. If you have been accredited or reaccredited for a specialty within the last year, you are exempt from completing the return for that specialty only.
If you are part of a consortium, hub or network that delivers STP training, the appropriate contact will be emailed separately to complete the return on behalf of the whole consortium, hub or network.
Annual monitoring will be conducted in the form of an online questionnaire, which will be sent to you on Monday 28 July 2025. The academic year you will need to report on is from September 2024 to August 2025.
We ask for details of any changes that may have influenced or affected the delivery of training. These include:
- staffing and organisational changes
- changes to training planning and the availability of resources
- engagement in the ‘STP Induction for New Trainers’
- challenges encountered in delivering the Scientist Training Programme
- support provided for equality, diversity and inclusion
If you have already notified the School of changes for this period through our change notification process, you are not required to report these changes again.
If you have not notified the School of any changes for this period or would like to notify us of a future change, please download and complete the Change Notification form and any additional relevant forms.
Non-completion of your annual monitoring return may affect your accreditation status and future commissioning of training posts.
Download a Change Notification form
Do you need help with supporting your trainee with their Developmental Training Activities (DTAs)?
We have developed a resource in the NHS Learning Hub to help you support your trainees with DTAs. It includes the recording of the webinar ‘Supporting trainees with Developmental Training Activities’.
To access the resources, you will need an NHS Learning Hub account. If you have an NHS email address create your account on the NHS Learning Hub website. If you do not have an NHS email address please complete this short form.
Access ‘Supporting trainees with Developmental Training Activities (DTAs)
STP Induction 2025
We will be holding the 2025 Scientist Training Programme Induction online via Teams. It will be held over 2 half-days:
- Day 1 – ‘Becoming a healthcare scientist’ will take place on Wednesday 10 September
- Day 2 – ‘Managing your programme’ will take place on Thursday 11 September
On both days the events will start at 9:30am and approximately finish at 1:15pm.
Trainees joining the STP in September will need to attend this key event as part of their induction to the training programme and will be invited once interviews have been completed and posts filled.
Are you interested in sharing your practice?
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.
We would be particularly interested in expressions of interest in how you have approached:
- embedding equality, diversity and inclusion into the training experience
- supporting your trainee with the ‘Professional Foundations of Healthcare and Clinical Science’ module
- supporting and assessing reflective practice
- embedding a culture of reflective practice in the workforce
Express an interest in sharing your practice
Missed a previous edition of the STP Monthly Memo?
You will find previous copies of the STP Monthly Memo on our website.