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3.4 Directorate/Department Manager/Clinical Director To ensure staff are allocated protected time to complete Corporate and Departmental Induction Programmes within the given timescale. 3.5 Lead Induction Officer To co-ordinate the Corporate Induction Programme for all newly recruited staff, ensuring that key issues are covered through an innovative agenda which reflects current Trust policies and procedures. To monitor Departmental Induction records (ref 5.2). 3.6 All Staff All new staff, regardless of grade or profession, must attend the corporate induction. The term new staff is defined as those employees who have either never worked for the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust or who have had a break in service of more than 12 months. 4. Corporate Induction 4.1 The corporate induction programme provides mandatory training in key generic areas. See Appendix 2. 4.2 As an integral part of the recruitment process, the HR, Medical Staffing and Nurse Bank departments will reserve a place on the induction programme for all new staff, with the exception of junior medical staff (ref 4.4). 4.3 The employee and their manager/Clinical Director will be notified of their induction course date in advance. Attendance at Corporate Induction will normally take place within 4 weeks of commencing employment with the Trust. Managers/Clinical Directors must ensure that arrangements are made to allow employees to attend on the allocated day. 4.4 The Education Centre organises induction programmes for ‘junior’ medical staff, which includes Staff Grade, Associate Specialist, Clinical Assistants, Hospital Practitioners and Foundation Doctors, and in conjunction with the Medical Staffing department, will arrange a place on the relevant induction programme. See Appendix 4. 4.5 Those medical staff (Specialist Registrars) commencing employment in the Trust, outside the scheduled bi-annual dates (ie. February and August) are inducted through a combination of completing a comprehensive local induction programme, and e-learning induction programme. 4.6 All new staff attending Corporate Trust Induction will receive a Staff Handbook on the day. Page 2 of 14
5. Departmental Induction 5.1 All new permanent and temporary staff, regardless of grade or profession, and including administration and clerical agency staff, must complete an induction to their Directorate or Department. A Departmental Induction template is available on the Intranet in the Training and Development section. The content of this may be expanded, as relevant to local induction standards. See Appendix 1 for A&C agency staff induction record; Appendix 3a for other permanent/temporary staff. 5.2 All managers are required to complete the departmental induction record within 3 months of employee’s employment date. The form is available on the intranet in the Training and Development section. On completion, this must be returned directly to the Training department to ensure that central records are accurately maintained. See Appendix 3b. 5.3 The return of departmental records will be closely monitored by the lead Induction Officer with quarterly exception reports provided to Managers/Clinical Directors. 5.4 Local induction training for junior medical staff is the responsibility of the Named Responsible Person (of Medical Consultant level) for each speciality. This person is also responsible to ensure accurate records of completed induction are maintained. The department maintain records of completed local inductions, and must return a copy of this record to the Education Centre. See Appendix 5. 6. Locum Induction 6.1 Each Directorate is required to have a “locum pack” providing an outline of the work of the speciality, the chain of command, the location of the key departments, communication systems and emergency/ resuscitation arrangements. 6.2 Mandatory training to include fire safety, moving and handling, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and blood transfusion is the responsibility of the individual through their employing agency. 7. Attendance at Corporate Induction 7.1 The Trust recruitment process includes the allocation of places on the corporate induction programme (ref 4.2). All staff are expected to attend their allocated place. Should the original date not be suitable eg. due to coinciding with existing planned absences, then the lead Induction Officer must be notified; an alternative date will be offered to the employee by the lead Induction Officer. The new date will be within one month of that originally allocated. 7.2 Attendance at all corporate induction programmes is monitored by the lead Induction Officer through a central register completed by all attendees. The Training department maintains the attendance records for all Consultant and senior-level medical staff and all non-medical staff. 7.3 The attendance records for all other medical staff are maintained by the Education Centre. Page 3 of 14
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