Changes to Mandatory Training required (2024)

Listed below are changes to SLaM training profiles and delivery during 2024, following approval by the Trust’s Mandatory and Statutory Training (MAST) Committee. 

These changes should not affect any 2024 Appraisal's need to be up-to-date with mandatory training, as any new requirements will be due after the appraisal window closes.

The changes from 1st May 2024 are:

1. Freedom to Speak Up
   • Listening Up e-learning will be mandatory for all line managers
   • Listening Up and Speaking Up e-learning will be mandatory for all FTSU Ambassadors and Champions.
   • Listening Up and Follow Up e-learning remains mandatory for Board members
   • These e-learning modules have been on LEAP for some years so many staff will have already completed them. Those staff with prior completions will show as compliant, and others will be given several months' lead-in time before compliance is due.
     
     
2. Dysphagia
   • Dysphagia training will be mandatory for PMOA - nursing staff, support workers, therapy enablers, activity coordinators.   
   • This e-learning has been available on LEAP since 2020 and therefore many targeted staff will have already completed the course. Others will be given a few months' lead-in time before compliance is due.
   • Any other staff are welcome to complete the Dysphagia e-learning on LEAP.
     
     
3. Smoking Cessation
   • Medics now need only complete this as a "Once only" training, with no mandated renewal
   • Smoking Cessation (Level 1) remains as an annual renewal for other clinical staff.
     
     
4. Safeguarding Level 3 (Children & Adults)
   • All staff assigned to mandatory Level 3 will  have to complete the blended pathway of e-learning plus in-house workshop.
   • The "Learning Log" pathway of certifying based on multidisciplinary and inter-agency training is being paused.   If this option becomes available again, it will be for the "additional Level 3" group of specialist staff working with children. 
     
     

The changes from 1st July 2024 are:

5. Naloxone
   • "Take Home Naloxone" e-learning will be mandatory as a "once only" training for nurses and pharmacists.
   • Other staff, especially other clinicians, are encouraged to access the Naloxone e-learning on LEAP.

6. NEWS/eObs
   • eObs training is being paused for all staff who have previously completed it, and so NEWS has been removed from their mandatory training profile.
   • New inpatient nurses and support workers or those who have never completed NEWS training will continue to have it as a mandatory requirement.
   • A new eObs system will be introduced at SLaM later in 2024, at which point the formerly trained NEWS audience will be reassigned to complete NEWS2 training

7. Supervision
   • A new Supervision e-learning has recently been developed at SLaM, of relevance to all staff.
     • This development was part of the action plan following the 2023 Supervision policy review. The e-learning replaces the previous in-person sessions and focuses more on integrating key policy information and anti-racism strategies
   • This Supervision (Level 1) e-learning will be mandatory for new staff and recent starters (staff with a start date after March 2023) - except Medics, for whom it is not initially set as mandatory.
   • Other and current staff are encouraged to access the new Supervision e-learning.
   • A higher level including Safeguarding Supervision (Level 2) e-learning is applicable for clinical staff, and for non-clinical staff with supervisory responsibilities, and will likewise be mandatory for new or recent staff in those groups.
   • The in-person sessions were previously mandatory for many line-managers as "Clinical Supervision [Once Only]" training, but this has not been offered since March 2023. This requirement has been removed from the training profiles of newer staff.
   • Development of a new skills-based supervision training for managers and supervisors (non-mandatory) is under consideration