Welcome to the Frimley Excellence White Belt LCS 1a

Frimley Excellence is the Continuous Improvement programme for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust which, over the next few years, we will help deliver the trust ambitions and help to progress towards the Frimley Health vision: ‘Being a leader in health and wellbeing delivering exceptional services for our community’.

This programme will teach the foundations of our #LeanMethodology for #ContinuousImprovement. Participants will know how to use the shared language of #8Wastes to identify and discuss improvement opportunities.

SME: The Frimley Excellence Team

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Welcome to Module 1

We recommend that as you progress through your learning, you have frequent catch ups with your Manager to discuss your progress as well as the opportunities you’ve identified to use your new knowledge and skills.

Subject Matter Expert: kim.crown@nhs.net

Welcome to your brand-new Management Essentials Programme.

 This has been designed specifically for you, our Managers, within our Frimley Family to help you develop the skills you need to successfully build, manage and develop amazing teams. The 65.5 hours of learning takes on a wide variety of different methods from classroom settings to virtual learning, videos and case studies. All the learning has been broken down into bite sized topics for you to access in a flexible way around your work and life. It’s a self-paced programme designed to take you between 3 and 6 months, allowing you time to really practice and embed the learning you’ve picked up. Check out the narrated ‘How Your Programme Works’ guide. The modules in this programme have been structured around our People Promise which you’ll read more about later, as well as our Management Competency framework. The bite-sized learning has been designed to help develop your skillsets in all of the competencies to help you, and us as a whole family, deliver our people promise.

Above all else, this learning is for you. We want to support you be the very best Manager you can be and to empower your teams to be the very best they can be too. Your workbook has been designed into 7 modules, one for each part of our People Promise, to guide you through the learning as well as being an aid to help you identify areas of your role you can use what you’ve learnt.

We recommend that as you progress through your learning, you have frequent catch ups with your Manager to discuss your progress as well as the opportunities you’ve identified to use your new knowledge and skills.

Subject Matter Expert: kim.crown@nhs.net

Welcome to the Frimley Health Clinical Leadership Programme (CLP).

This pilot programme has been developed for experienced B6s nurses / ODPs looking to progress, or new in post B7 nurses / ODPs, and or Band 7 Therapists. If you are a midwife please contact your PD team regarding this programme as will be looking to widening access to this programme shortly. 

The CLP programme is a work-based competency programme which encompasses blended approaches to learning, including supervised clinical leadership practice, experiential learning, shadow shifts, face to face study days, virtual leadership education sessions, online / e-learning and additional external educational activities and resources. 

It is requires candidates to complete the comprehensive CLP competency, several management and leadership short courses, a formal Improvement Project and then formally present the the leadership journey and project. 

The staff member's direct line manager / matron must nominate the staff member for the programme by filling in this form and the manager must ensure they have discussed the programme, the competency and the commitment with the candidate. 

Therapist Nomination form

Nurse and ODP CLP nomination form

The manager / matron needs to consider if they are able to support the learner, that they can provide protected time and that they support the candidate with the sign-off of their competency.

The manager / matron should also consider any other CPD commitment including academic studies the staff member has, and or that may affect their ability to complete the programme.

The CPD Course requires substantive commitment from the manager to release your staff for 95 hours over the course of 12 months, and a £50 departmental charge for the Health Care Leadership Model 360 appraisal feedback tool. 

The mentor (manager's / matron's) commitment is approximately 15 hours commitment. 

The staff members commitment is approximately 50-60 hours (dependant on the project). 

The Clinical Education Team will then be in contact regarding whether the nomination is successful and with an allocation of a cohort.

For any information about this course and or if you would like to discuss its suitability  please contact sarah.madigan@nhs.net. 

Welcome to the Frimley Health Aspiring Clinical Leadership Programme (ACLP).

The programme has been developed for post preceptorship / experienced B5 nurses and ODPs looking to progress, or new in post band 6 nurses / ODPs, and or Band 6 Therapists. If you are a midwife please contact your PD team regarding this programme. 

The ACLP programme is a work-based competency programme which encompasses blended approaches to learning, including supervised practice, experiential learning, shadow shifts, 4 face to face study days, online / e-learning and additional external educational activities and resources. It requires completion of clinical leadership  shadow shifts, a small improvement project, and a final presentation day of the leadership journey. 

The staff member's line manager must nominate the staff member for the programme by filling in this form and the manager must ensure they have discussed the programme, the competency and the commitment with the candidate.,  - https://forms.office.com/r/0J8mVUML6H

The CPD Course requires substantive commitment from the manager to release your staff for five SDs, five shadow shifts as dictated by the competency criteria, allocated protected time for e-learning and relevant meetings (10 hrs).

The manager needs to consider if they are able to support your learner, can they provide protected time and can they / experienced B6 support the candidate with the sign-off of their competency. The manager should also consider any other CPD commitment including academic studies the staff member has, and or that may affect their ability to complete.

The Clinical Education team will then be in contact regarding whether the nomination is successful and with an allocation of a cohort.

For any information about this course please contact fhft.clinicaleducationteamfph@nhs.net or fhft.clinicaleducationhwph@nhs.net. 

If you are a healthcare professional providing treatment/performing interventions/procedures directly you should complete this core module in conjunction with following the FHFT trust policy on Consent to Examination or treatment policy and adhere to your professional guidelines.

If you have any queries on the subject matter then please contact Bethany Bal (bethany.bal@nhs.net)

A list of staff with access to your course data can be found here



Coordinator In Charge 

This course consists of face-to-face teaching as well as scenarios in which you will have opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge you have acquired in to clinical area. 

The course is delivered by Clinical Education and Subject Matter Experts and you will also be being supported in clinical practice by your senior colleagues / managers to achieve relevant clinical competencies.

Any problems, please contact Dan Pryce - daniel.pryce@nhs.net - Senior Clinical Educator or Bini Gurung - b.gurung3@nhs.net 

WP Clinical Education Team - fhft.clinicaleducationhwph@nhs.net
FPH Clinical Education Team - fhft.clinicaleducationteamfph@nhs.net

A list of staff with access to your course data can be found here

Welcome to your brand-new Management Essentials Programme.

 This has been designed specifically for you, our Managers, within our Frimley Family to help you develop the skills you need to successfully build, manage and develop amazing teams. The 65.5 hours of learning takes on a wide variety of different methods from classroom settings to virtual learning, videos and case studies. All the learning has been broken down into bite sized topics for you to access in a flexible way around your work and life. It’s a self-paced programme designed to take you between 3 and 6 months, allowing you time to really practice and embed the learning you’ve picked up. Check out the narrated ‘How Your Programme Works’ guide. The modules in this programme have been structured around our People Promise which you’ll read more about later, as well as our Management Competency framework. The bite-sized learning has been designed to help develop your skillsets in all of the competencies to help you, and us as a whole family, deliver our people promise.

Above all else, this learning is for you. We want to support you be the very best Manager you can be and to empower your teams to be the very best they can be too. Your workbook has been designed into 7 modules, one for each part of our People Promise, to guide you through the learning as well as being an aid to help you identify areas of your role you can use what you’ve learnt.

We recommend that as you progress through your learning, you have frequent catch ups with your Manager to discuss your progress as well as the opportunities you’ve identified to use your new knowledge and skills.

Subject Matter Expert: kim.crown@nhs.net

Supporting Employees Mental Health

Subject Matter Expert: Melanie Walker (Employee Engagement Manager/Freedom to Speak Up Champion)