The education offer within healthcare has grown over recent years with many clinical and non-clinical experts delivering speciality training for internal staff. Continuous Professional Development funding and Workforce Development funding from Health Education England has focused on supporting NHS organisations to expand their internal offer for their own staff and from other providers.
At Guy’s and St Thomas’, the internal provision of education has expanded across professions as staff take up work-based learning modules and short courses to upskill and develop themselves personally and professionally.
In 2019 a group of educators from across clinical and non-clinical professions got together to explore introducing a foundation teaching course at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The PGCert was available to staff who were in full-time education roles, however it was apparent that there were many staff who must undertake educational activity as part of their role with no access to courses on delivering training. The Education Faculty designed a foundation course spanning six months that included various sessions including the principles of Teaching and Learning, reflections and planning a teaching session, and thus the ‘Teaching our Teachers’ (ToT) Course was launched.
