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This event will help you:
• Identify how to cut waste from your training budget and drive return on investment on your training spend
• Discover proven solutions for influencing the board and the ‘purse holders’
• Get up to speed on new learning techniques available for your learners
• Network with L&D and training colleagues from across the NHS

This event is aimed at organisational development (OD) director, training managers and trainers and providers of learning and development programmes.

9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Chair’s introduction

Morning session: showcasing best practice in skills development
Three finalists in this year’s Excellence Awards of the Healthcare People Management Association explain their approach to skills development, their achievements and how their experience can be useful to others.

10.15 – 10.45 Creating the HEFT faculty
Kerry Jones, Head of learning and development, Heart of England NHS Foundation trust
• Learn Lead strategy developed with full staff engagement
• Foundation year introduced for whole workforce
• HEFT Faculty launched to embed concept of employee education and life long careers
• Includes Healthcare Careers Development Unit available to all
• Encompasses 200 apprentices and 40 long term unemployed people.

10.45 – 11.15 Unleashing Talent Passport
Robin Arbuthnot, senior learning and development manager and Marine McCarney, learning and development manager, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
• Tackled the skills gap in support services staff
• Accredited, level 2 programme, based on Knowledge and Skills Framework
• Partnership working across local economy
• Staff more committed to Trust and career-oriented
• Great transferability

11.15 – 11.45: coffee

11.45 –12.15: Maths for healthcare staff
Joyce Combe, head of leadership and management and Ruth Gates, Connecting Health project manager, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board
• Part of a Unison-funded project to improve skills across the workforce
• Trust has achieved the full Basic Skills Employer Pledge Award
• Blended face to face and on-line training to improve confidence and competence levels of clinical staff, especially in drip rates and dosage calculations
• Succeeded in mainstreaming basic skills training across whole organisation
• Reduced drug errors.

12.15- 12. 45: Discussion session with morning speakers

12.45- 13.45: Lunch

Afternoon session: making the case for sustained investment in training
In tough economic times, it is often training budgets which are the first to go. But we should know better: how can productivity, performance and quality be maintained and improved without continued investment in the skills of the entire workforce?

13.45 – 14.15: When the going gets tough…
Steps Drama Group

14.15 – 14.45: Ensuring return on investment
Jane Massy, CEO, abdi ltd

14.45 - 15.15: And what about YOU?Stuck in the middle of infinite demand and finite resources: some coping strategies.
Kathleen Sullivan, coach and NLP trainer and practitioner

15.15: 15.30: Fifteen tips in fifteen minutes: getting the most from your training budget

15.30 – 15.50: Discussion

15.50: Concluding remarks

16.00 - 17.00 Pimms reception hosted by GateHouse

• Online at https://gatehouse.freestyleeventservices.com/public/default.asp?event=270
• By phone 020 8334 4525
• By email gatehouse@chamberdunn.co.uk

GateHouse courses offer practical solutions to your workplace challenges. They are motivating and informative, not only for attendees, but lessons learnt impact colleagues back at the workplace. Our quality programmes are designed to improve performance at unbeatable value. Visit our website www.gatehousecourses.com for full details of available short courses, our in-house portfolio and specialist programmes.

Steps Drama Learning Development is a global leader in experiential drama based learning solutions, creating innovative and award-winning programmes for clients across the UK and overseas. We are specialists in delivering behaviour-based training, helping clients with a range of individual and organisational development challenges.

abdi ltd was set up in 2006 by Jane Massy and Jeremy Harrison to promote excellence in UK organisations of every sector in measuring the impact of learning and development.abdi works with clients to build their capability and systems to this end.

HPMA is the professional voice of HR in healthcare. The purpose of the association is to maintain and develop the people management contribution to healthcare in the UK. Supported by a strong branch network, HPMA set and promote the highest standards in people management in healthcare. Find out more about their annual awards programme at www.hpma.org.uk

Kathleen Sullivan is a regular trainer with gateHouse and the founder of, On-Call Coaching and the ThinKSpace Action Learning Programme for heatlhcare teams. Her workshops and one-to-one coaching are far-reaching, from PCT staff in the UK to doctors on an oilfield in Kazakhstan. Kathleen is strongly committed to supporting individuals and the teams they are part of to gain the clarity, confidence and commitment they seek to be more professional and experience greater joy and success in whatever they do.