Training and Development

East London Foundation NHS Trust recognises that the service it provides is a reflection of the quality of the professional knowledge, skills, attitudes, commitment, motivation and ability of staff the organisation employs.

It is committed to encouraging staff to reach their full potential by enhancing job performance and maximising personal and professional job satisfaction.

The Trust aims to ensure that employees have the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes to provide the highest quality healthcare to the population served. 

It is also a mechanism to enable individual staff to develop their potential as envisaged in ‘Working together, Learning Together’, the Framework for Life Long Learning which will ensure that the National Health Service becomes a model environment for learning and personal development.

The Lifelong Learning Framework

is designed to support the vision of the Skills Escalator, the delivery of the NHS Plan, National Service Frameworks and Local Modernisation Priorities as well as associated development frameworks across a number of health service professions.

In delivering on these aims the Training and Development Department will respond to staff and service need by providing a comprehensive training and development programme with a range of opportunities delivered flexibly and equitably to all staff.  

More specifically the Corporate Training and Development Department is committed to the following:

  • All staff with no equivalent qualification will have access to a minimum NVQ level 2 and be supported to level 3.
  • Ensure that all staff are given the opportunity to improve, refresh and enhance their literacy, language and numeracy skills.
  • All Continuing Professional Development through our partners at City University is planned, commissioned,  delivered and evaluated  in order to meet the  needs of  the organisation and individuals.
  • That accessible routes exists into higher level learning, for example through Foundation Degrees and pre- registration programmes.
  • That information, instruction and training is provided to support staff and managers in the undertaking of appraisals and the production of personal development plans (PDP’s)
  • That robust links and excellent communications exist  between the Trust’s training and education activities, our partner organisations and  stakeholders. These include, other NHS organisations, Social Services agencies, Further and Higher Education institutions, voluntary agencies and other NHS bodies such as NHS London and NHS Elect.
  • Ensure that all training and development supports the Trusts aspiration to create ‘a culturally competent workforce’, with a specific programme of education that underpins this.