The Christie Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

School of oncology

employees in the hope that they find more permanent work with ourselves here at The Christie. The Clinical Skills Team have faced a challenging year in balancing the delivery of training to an ever-changing workforce, whilst supporting the Trust during the recent challenges. A particular highlight for the team has been the employment of the first Lecturer Practitioner to support the development of SACT training and competencies. The Education Events team continues to thrive in the changed world of virtual training and conferencing. The team successfully ran a full events programme on a new events platform: ON24. Over the year, they have welcomed 5,000 delegates virtually. In addition, over 500 speakers were welcomed and trained on virtual events platform. Virtual conferencing allows significantly more people to access learning opportunities. The Events team were keen on the development of collaborative working with the Education Centre and the Digital Learning Team to support the Proton Team in delivering the new virtual six week proton course. This highly successful course was developed by Dr Shermaine Pan and the team from the Proton Service. The team worked closely with the Workforce Education team to deliver a series of leadership webinars. Collaborative working continues across both teams – recognising the importance of the integration of education across all our services. It was a particularly exciting prospect for the Events team to be involved in the delivery of a face-to face event at the Whitworth Gallery for Transitional Research Manchester. The Digital Learning team, with support of colleagues across the SoO and Trust, launched the Christie Learning Zone, the Trust’s new Learning Management System. This includes a range of new bespoke courses, such as ‘Educating the Educator’ and ‘Mental Health: The Core Principles’.

both education and international projects. This is an important role in terms of integration of all services across the Trust. New delivery methods have continued to be the focus of the SoO, for the Medical and Non Medical Education teams, this allowed the creation of a new form of delivery of hybrid inductions for Medical Trainees, comprising online induction and e-learning, and face-to-face. This work has included the development of new induction checklists, the creation of new medical and clinical oncology handbooks for trainees, and a Trainee Information Guide. During this period, placements for 562 Manchester medical students were delivered; this included an additional 18 students taken in through the new third year Clinical Placement Programme. This work was undertaken within the bio-security strictures – ensuring that all medical students joining the Trust were PCR and LFT tested twice weekly. The Service welcomed and inducted 126 new Trainees from all Specialty areas to the Trust over 6 Medical Education Inductions. Key highlights from our teams The Government Kickstart programme supporting young people into the workplace has been a success for both the SoO and the Trust, the Workforce Education team have placed 20 people to date in roles that include: Administration, Health Care Assistants, and Portering. We have a further 6 waiting on employment checks and 5 waiting to be interviewed this coming week. Managers across the Trust have embraced the Kickstart programme and shown great appreciation for the extra pair of hands! The team have benefitted from the programme by the direct employment of one of the trainees. A success replicated in two other departments in the Trust. The Workforce Education team are continuing to develop training packages and support Kickstart

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