Pan London LLN Health Collaboration/Skills for Health Dissemination event

Date:Thursday 26 March 2009

Time:09.30 - 15.30

Venue: Birkbeck College, University of London, WC1E 7HX

Designing Education for Service Needs…Forging Partnerships to Embed a Culture of Workbased Learning in the Health Sector

Organised by:
Pan London LLN Health Collaboration

Supported by:
Skills for Health

The Pan London LLN Health Collaboration disseminated developments of their Skills for Health HE Demonstrator Site.

This event featured the work of the HE Demonstrator Site as a pathfinder for developing effective working partnerships between employers and education providers.

The site involves 7 ‘sub-sites’ across London and each focuses on a different area of service provision including:

• Mental health
• Long term conditions
• Planned care
• Leadership.

This dissemination event provided education, care service and other stakeholder participants with the opportunity to find out about and discuss the:

• Pan London HE demonstration Site
• Challenges of developing learning programmes to support local workforce development priorities.

Agenda

09.30 – 10.00 Registration, coffee and networking

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10.00 – 10.30 Welcome, set the scene and overview of 7 demo projects
Karen Morse, Executive Director, South East London Lifelong Learning Network

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10.30 – 10.50 Project 1 presentation
Acute Care – Nursing & Midwifery Workforce
King’s College London and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Trust – Innovation in leadership programme. This project aims to provide middle managers in the health service with the opportunity to develop their management competence with particular reference to service development and quality of care
Julia Mingay, Head of Department, Acute Adult Nursing Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London

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10.50 – 11.10 Project 2 presentation: Offender Health
Mental Health – Dual Diagnosis in Secure Offender Environments
This project addresses the competences that staff need to deal with offenders with mental health and substance misuse problems
Liz Hughes, Prinicipal Research Fellow, Mental Health Workstream Lead, Centre for Clinical & Academic Workforce Innovation, University of Lincoln

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11.10 – 11.30 Project 3 presentation: Kingston Universtiy/Wandsworth PCT
Long Term Conditions – Development of Learning Modules for Assistant Practitioners
This project aims to develop specific educational provision for in-house and external staff that care for patients with long term diseases
Alison Hasselder, Course Director, Joint Faculty of Health, Social Care Sciences at Kingston University with St George’s University London
Alison Ludlam, Associate Director of Nursing, Wandsworth PCT

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11.30 – 11.50 Break

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11.50 – 12.10 Project 4 presentation: Ealing
Mental Health – Upskill Project
The project aims to identify the specific needs of the workforce that assist mental health patients and to develop or modify appropriate educational provision to upskill the workforce
Jo Skinner, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Social Science, London Metropolitan University
Kalwant Sahota, Manager, Ealing Primary Care Trust

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12.10 – 12.30 Project 5 presentation: Hillingdon
Long Term Conditions – Expanding Band 4 Roles
This project will develop Band 4 roles and education pathways in long term conditions (stroke, neurological rehabilitation and community based services). The aim is to develop a learning programme using a whole team approach to support career progression routes
Jennifer Chappell, Deputy Director (Educational Training), The Hillingdon Hospitsal (THH) NHS Trust

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12.30 – 12.50 Project 6 presentation: Whittington
Planned Care – Infection Control
This project aims to utilise current staff training sessions as a basis for developing reflective analysis learning units informed by competences
Sinead Mehigan, Head of Department (Health & Social Sciences), Middlesex University

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12.50 – 13.10 Project 7 presentation: SLAM
Mental Health – Supporting Progression in the Mental Health Sector
South London and Maudsley Hospital Mental Health Trust and LLU+ at London South Bank University. The purpose of the project is to support Bands 1-4 staff in the Mental Health Sector to develop their skills to progress onto further training at Level 3 and Level 4
Beth Kelly, Programme Director for Skills for Life Development in the Workplace
Shan Rees, Head of Community and Workforce Development Division, both from LLU+ London South Bank University
Rachel Perera, Education Commissioning and Development Manager, South London and Maudsley Hospital

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13.10 – 14.00 Lunch

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14.00 – 14.30 Skills for Health presentation
Dr Paul Blakemen, Divisional Manager (Qualifications Development), Skills for Health

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14.30 – 15.30 Panel discussion and close
Stefano Casalotti, Curriculum Development Manager, Linking London Lifelong Learning Network, Dr Paul Blakeman, Divisional Manager (Qualifications Development), Skills for Health, Sarah Adibi, Sector Manager – Health, Social Care and Biomedical Sciences, South London Lifelong Learning Network & Joelle Maulguet, Health and Wellbeing Sector Lead, South East London Lifelong Learning Network.
Chaired by Digby Ingle, Health & Social Care Sector Manager, West London Lifelong Learning Network

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Evaluation

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