How the school supports you during your training

We offer professional support and guidance for trainees and Training Officers who may be experiencing issues or challenges. This is done by providing advice, offering a framework of policies and processes to support changes to training, and signposting to resources.

Whilst we are unable to offer counselling, clinical or mediation services, we will sign post you to resources that can:

• offer support for people’s health and well-being
• help address professional relationship issues
• help address other employment or education related concerns

Support requirements vary depending on the situation and maybe resolved by advice provided by email. However, some circumstances may be more complex and require liaison with a range of stakeholders to confirm sufficient training support is provided, and issues are resolved wherever possible.

We will help trainees in the following ways:

• confidential advice and signposting for trainees and training officers through 1-2-1 meetings or joint meetings to discuss issues/concerns
• providing information for both trainees and training departments to utilise via our website
• collaboration across different education providers and commissioning organisations
• deferrals due to ill health​
• extensions​
• interruptions or step off due to service provision issues
• career breaks​
• progression monitoring processes
• transfers of training to alternative training providers (by exception only)
• webinars
• drop-in sessions

We will continue to work with trainees, departments and other stakeholders to develop and communicate our services on an ongoing basis.

If a trainee or Training Officer have any concerns and wish to raise these with us, please email england.nshcs@nhs.net. Emails will be treated in confidence and are managed by a small number of staff at the school.

What are the roles and responsibilities of the school?

There are a number of roles and responsibilities that we will perform during your time on the programme.

Assessment

Provision and management of the e-portfolio as well as delivery of the final assessment:

• the STP Final Year Assessment (FYA)
• the HSST Independent Assessment of Professional Skills (IAPS)

Review of progression

Monitoring the progress of trainees to ensure they are on track to complete the programme:

• the STP review of progression
• the HSST Annual Review of Progression (ARP)

Completion of training

Guidance on completion requirements and issue of a certificate of completion:

• STP completion criteria and guidance
• HSST completion criteria and guidance
• ETP completion criteria

Accreditation

Assessment and approval of the quality of training provision for work-based and academic education providers. Visit the Accreditation section for further information

Curriculum

Responsibility for programme curricula, ensuring that it is a scientifically robust and future proofed curricula. Visit the Curriculum section for further information

Scientific advice

The school’s scientists and Training Programme Directors are available for help and advice. Find out more about our Training Programme Directors

Training for trainers

We provide training standards, guidance and online resources for trainers on our training programmes. Find out more about our training for trainers service

Communications on healthcare science matters

We communicate via our newsletters, website and social media accounts. Copies of our 4 newsletters are available..