Your Development

During your onboarding, every colleague will receive an Onboarding Planner bespoke to your role, this will outline a plan of various development interventions and methods to get you to role competency right up until your probationary period.

At CHEC, we are extremely passionate about development and show encouragement in providing opportunities to help you grow. Our dedicated L&D and Education team are at hand to help you achieve your full potential.

Each colleague has an opportunity to access a Personal Development Plan to determine the next steps of your career development.

We also have an up-and-coming Apprenticeship Scheme in place partnering with local and online establishments to help cater to your needs, wherever you are. Whether it be the very start of your career with us, or an opportunity to gain valuable qualifications and lifelong skills during your career, an apprenticeship may be the right development solution for you.

At CHEC we have a dedicated list of eLearning courses for each role, that can be completed through one of our blended eLearning platforms. This element of training will be introduced right at the start of journey at CHEC to ensure you are fully prepared for your dedicated working environment.

When you join us at CHEC in any clinical role, there will be a team of experienced and accredited educators to help make your induction period and ongoing learning as smooth as possible. A comprehensive training and competency assessment package has been designed with speciality Clinical Educators. Each clinical colleague receives a tailored, four-week induction period where they are supernumerary but still involved in the clinical processes.

The induction is structured to provide the base knowledge to build upon in the following weeks where you will receive training in all aspects of your role both from our internal Clinical Education Team and also from external providers who supply some of the equipment you will be using.

Ophthalmic

If your role involves working in the operating theatre, you will be shown and trained in all the relevant aspects of theatre standards and practice to ensure you are properly equipped to deliver the high-quality patient care that we at CHEC pride ourselves on.

Whether you come from an ophthalmic background or not, we can train you to be a highly skilled professional in the field and the Education Team will be there for you at any time in your CHEC career, not just your first few weeks.

For your continued development, we offer a pathway for our Ophthalmic Assistants where they can choose to learn to scrub for cataract surgery and assist the surgeon at the operating table or attentively, you could choose the diagnostic development route aimed at enhancing your skills in the clinic environment and possibly leading on towards a lead role within the clinic.

Our scrub practitioners also have the opportunity to develop their skills with the aim of becoming a theatre lead, where you will be responsible for far more than just scrubbing for surgery.

There is also the opportunity for our Endoscopy colleagues to cross train in certain aspects of the different services with bespoke training and support offered by the Clinical Education Team.

Gastroenterology

The Endoscopy Induction package supports CHEC ambition for JAG accreditation and ensures that all clinical colleagues are equipped with he knowledge and skills to deliver the highest standard of patient care. All new employees (both registered and non-registered) complete Patient Facing Statutory Mandatory Training Modules via eLfH. Following this, they further receive a four-week period of Clinical Induction which includes:

Enrolment onto JETS
Completion of eLfH 9 Modules for Endo 1 – following which employees either attend a face-to-face or virtual session via JAG
Completion of Modules on Health Care Skills (level 3 or Level 5 depending on registration status). These modules each include role play, discussions and submitted reflections
Practically assessed Adult Basic Life Support Training

The methods used to deliver this training included a blended approach of face-to-face teaching with practical, online learning, along with Multiple Choice Questions, group discussion, reflections, and role play. This consolidates the learning and enables the clinical endoscopy team to establish a process of development collectively.

Employee Testimonial

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Since joining, I have gained enough exposure to implement frameworks, create and rework policies and processes, as well as aid on numerous training courses to ensure our colleagues can develop. I have also gained the art of resilience, time management, and the confidence to spread awareness of L&D to the wider business and senior managers.

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