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Nursing Career Pathway Summary

One page summary of potential career progression from Administration to Advanced Clinical Practitioner in General Practice is available here

GM Workforce Bank

Struggling for staff? Need to fill GP, Nurse and Reception sessions?

Greater Manchester have been working in partnership with GM Federation to develop a ‘Greater Manchester Workforce Bank’ as a result of the Lantum contract ending on 30th September 2022. Please see details below:

Please follow this Link for any further information/queries

 

Lantum

Across the 10 CCG’s, every GM Practice is able to access the GM Workforce Bank through the platform provider Lantum. The workforce bank includes locum GP’s, Nurse’s and from 19th October Administrative / Reception staff.

What else do I need to know?

Costs:

From 1st October, Lantum will no longer be subsidised by Greater Manchester Health and Care Partnership. You will still be able to use Lantum in exactly the same way after this date to book local locums at a reduced rate, manage payments, pensions and all associated paperwork* with our bespoke Subscription Model.

For £49 a month, you will be able to:

  • Access Lantum’s network of 2,000+ locum GPs at a reduced rate of 5%
  • Have a dedicated bank of your favourite GPs and other types of staff,
  • Manage compliance documents, pension forms and invoices all in one place
  • Maintain existing staff relationships with locums and continue to enjoy features such as Priority Access and Instant Book

If you don’t choose to move to the Subscription Model, you will automatically be moved to our flexible Pay as You Go option. There’s no monthly cost with this model, however, you will pay a rate of 7% to book locums from Lantum’s network, and will lose access to your bank, as well as features such as direct communication with staff.

Regardless of the model you choose, Lantum will continue to offer Rocketpay for free. It’s the only way to pay your clinicians the next day without having to worry about your own cash flow. We will also continue to cover the cost of any DBS applications for GPs who want to work with you through Lantum.

To switch to the new Subscription model please click here

Training: all admin staff have completed HMR Academy’s Reception training and are DBS checked (see below for more details).

Clinicians who want sessional work? Sign up and register at: https://info.lantum.com/greater_manchester

Free e-rostering tool: Manage your practice and staff rotas, all in one place

  • Manage staffing for multiple practices or services
  • Get an overview of rotas for different staff types, like for nurses and GPs
  • Combine and integrate your salaried staff and additional locums within the same rota
  • Onboarding and rostering your salaried staff comes at no extra cost
  • Get an overview of hours worked by staff member or locum for greater transparency and to help with workforce modelling

Automate the filling of rota gaps 

  • Fill shifts and gaps with staff from your own practice or access the Greater Manchester workforce bank
  • Enable clinicians to apply directly to fill gaps, review their applications and message staff in the same place

GM practices can sign up or update your account at: http://info.lantum.com/greatermanchester_pm

What documents are available?

  • CV and 2 references
  • DBS certificate
  • Copy of ID (passport)

I need help! If you need help to register, please contact Lantum directly at support@lantum.com

How are qualifications/registration checked?

As part of the on-boarding process Lantum will verify, ID, CV and DBS. Individuals are also asked to complete a COVID free statement. However with any employment, practices are encouraged to satisfy themselves of an individuals qualifications and right to work. It will be the practices responsibility to complete employment checks for the required session.

Please note, Bank Staff are classed as self employed

Administration/Reception Workforce Bank – Further Information

Individuals on the bank are from 1st year Nursing, AHP and pharmacy back grounds and have received training on the following basic reception skills:

  • EMIS/Vision
  • Docman
  • Confidentiality
  • Answering phones
  • Signposting
  • Dealing with difficult patients
  • Safeguarding

This is also a fantastic opportunity for these individuals to gain an insight into Primary Care, work within a practice and support their learning

Nurse Returners

The NMC has specifics around returning to the register, please visit https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/returning-to-the-register/returning-to-practice/ for further information.

Local Retention Guide for Unregistered Staff

Please find the ‘Local Retention Guide for Unregistered Staff’ guide –   COVID-19_Local retention guide for unregistered staff v1 10052021  . This guide provides tools and guidance to help Lead Employers retain any oversupply of unregistered staff by finding them alternative roles in health and care and engaging with them to understand their motivations to join the NHS, their interests, strengths and skills that will help match them with potential career opportunities.

 Should you have any questions, please get in touch with Christina.Quinn@leadershipacademy.nhs.uk

Employability Skills Matrix

Skills for Health have launched a revised and updated Employability Skills Matrix (ESM) to help both employers and individuals working across the UK healthcare sector to identify the personal skills, qualities, values, attributes and behaviors needed to improve the delivery of care.

The Matrix is a practical tool that will assist employers and commissioners to define the employability skills in addition to clinical excellence, where relevant, required by staff working at different career levels (from Levels 1 to 9) and in different roles across the healthcare sector. From an individual employee point of view, ESM can help staff at all levels to identify employability skills and knowledge “gaps”, direct them to the most relevant source of information and advice about development and training , contribute to the staff review process and maintain motivation to stay in the sector.

The ESM will also assist employers to ‘grow their own’ staff within the sector and reduce high levels of attrition, as well as assist in identifying access points to employment across the health sector as a whole. This focus on employability skills will enable organisations to develop a “value set” that will result in:

  • Better motivated and trained staff
  • Greater staff satisfaction & reduced staff turnover
  • Lower costs as a result of reduced staff turnover and higher levels of efficiency

To access the ESM, visit the following:

http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/resources/guidance-documents/162-employability-skills-matrix

CPD Funding for Nurses and AHPs

Applications for 2020/2021 have now closed. When this is back open all practices will be advised.

GP Partnership Scheme

The New to Partnership Payment Scheme provides an opportunity for eligible health care professionals to become a partner at your GP practice and in return receive up to £20,000 plus a contribution towards on-costs of up to £4,000 (for a full time participant). The funding is available to support establishment as a partner, as well as up to £3,000 in a training fund to develop non-clinical partnership skills.  In order to participate in the scheme, applicants will be required to submit an application form and supplementary evidence to us and meet the eligibility criteria.  Eligible roles are General Practitioners, Nurses (including Advanced Nurse Practitioners), Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Physiotherapists, Paramedics, Midwifes, Dietitians, Podiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Mental Health Practitioners working in general practice.

The overarching aim of the scheme is to grow the number of partners working in primary care, stabilising the partnership model and helping to increase clinicians’ participation levels so that primary medical care and the patients it serves have access to the workforce they need. A guide to the scheme, frequently asked questions and the application form can be found on their website. If you have any queries, please contact the team

New Health Education England North West GP Trainer Journey

For further details please Click here