It is essential that all staff who are employed by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust remain compliant with all their statutory and mandatory training compliance. This is essential for their role, their safety and patient safety.
For further guidance, please view the Statutory and Mandatory Training and Induction policy on the intranet.
Staff are required to undertake a number of training modules. The refresher periods range from every 1 – 3 years depending on recommended guidelines for the topics.
All staff are required to complete a range of training as part of the terms and conditions of employment. Statutory and mandatory training ensures that staff are up to date with any legislative changes and internal processes and procedures. Statutory and mandatory training ensures staff competencies are up to date for their own and patient safety.
For all staff employed under the Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, all statutory and mandatory training must be up to date at the time of their pay progression review.
The Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) is a framework for use by healthcare organisations to help guide and standardise the focus and the delivery of key statutory and mandatory training skills. The intention in providing this framework is that healthcare organisations will be able to review their current arrangements for defining and delivering training in relation to the identified subject areas, and through the adoption of the framework align their approaches. Where such alignment is undertaken it should then have benefits for healthcare organisations in ensuring consistent approaches, promote quality and delivery of training which, through the use of learning outcomes, should be more educationally focused and valued. It is expected that the adoption of this framework will help promote organisational and system wide efficiencies by encouraging the health sector to recognise training which meets recognised standards and in doing so help contribute towards preventing unnecessary duplication.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is aligned to the CSTF, this enables the organisation to accept and transfer training data from other NHS organisations and ensure high standards of training for all staff.
The Trust has 2 main reporting categories Core and Advanced. Staff should be compliant with training on both training dashboards.
The Trust has set a statutory and mandatory training compliance of 90%. Information Governance has a Trust target of 90%.
You can find out what training topics are required for you by logging into your ESR portal and selecting “my compliance”.
Training can be transferred from one NHS organisation to another via ESR. This is named an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT). The training team will accept any training that is compliant with the CSTF.
Managers will receive a monthly compliance dashboard of both the core and advanced dashboards. This will be sent via e-mail.
Managers should disseminate this information to the relevant parties in their team. If managers are not receiving their monthly dashboards they should contact ComplianceReports@bedsft.nhs.uk with their cost centre so that they can be added to the distribution list.
Each training topic has its own renewal period. You can check the renewal period on ESR or the monthly compliance dashboard.
You can complete statutory and mandatory training in a number of ways including:
Yes, all staff should be given protected time to attend statutory and mandatory training.
Staff should also be given time to attend virtual training sessions and complete any e-learning modules.
It should not be expected that staff complete training in their own time or complete additional hours. If staff do complete statutory and mandatory training in their own time, it should be agreed beforehand with the manager to how this may be compensated for example receive additional pay bank payment/ overtime or time in lieu.
The Training and Learning Team has created user guides to support you with ESR navigation and using e-learning. There is also a range of educational tutorials on ESR.
If you would like 1:1 support, you can contact the team via email:
Managers that would like support with their teams training compliance can book a meeting with the Mandatory Training Officer (MTO). The MTO will be able to provide support to you and your team and create a training recovery plan. Please contact Jay Sidhu on Jay.Sidhu@bedsft.nhs.uk
If you have completed the training but this is not reflected on your training record, please contact a member of the training team and they will investigate this for you.
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