Statutory and Mandatory Training

Training which all staff are required to complete as designated at organisational level or by role as per NHS England, Core Skills Training framework (2021).

Compliance is monitored internally and externally, and training records are maintained on the approved Trust Learner Management System.

You can complete online training via Moodle. Once completed your easylearning account will be updated. You can also find and book classroom sessions via easylearning.

Mandatory Training for all colleagues

Course title	Required refresher frequency	Audience
Corporate Induction	Once only at induction	All staff
Local Induction	Once only on induction	All staff
Resus Awareness	Once only at induction	All staff
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - Level 1	3 Yearly	All staff
Manual Handling Theory	Once only at induction	All staff
Health, Safety & Welfare	3 Yearly	All staff
Fire Safety	Yearly	All staff
Infection Prevention & Control - Level 1	3 Yearly	All staff
Safeguarding Children and Adults - Level 1	3 Yearly	All staff
Information Governance	Yearly	All staff
Prevent Healthwrap	3 Yearly	All staff
Conflict Resolution	3 Yearly	All Staff

Mandatory Training for colleagues defined by their role

Subject Title	Required Refresher Frequency	Who Needs to Attend/Audience
Manual Handling (Load)	2 yearly	This training is mostly inanimate object handling but includes an element of patient handling suitable to the role. Porters Mortuary Technicians Neonatal staff Audiology Podiatrist Orthoptist Prosthetist’s/orthoptist Umbrella (Sexual Health) This list is not exhaustive. Please contact Manual Handling Training UHB for advice if you are unsure.
	3 yearly	Non-clinical or clinical staff who regularly handle inanimate loads in excess of 4kgs or push/pull equipment such as trollies/cages (no patient handling is covered): Ward Administrators Administrative staff who regularly handle 4kg or more e.g. Finance/Library Facilities – Catering, Housekeeping staff, Catering Food Services; Catering Retail & non-retail staff Non-Patient Transport/Drivers at managers risk management indicates Estates Medical Engineering Printing Laboratory medicine Histopathology/Microbiology/Haematology/Biochemistry/Pathology Biomedical Scientists (BMS) and laboratory technicians/assistants Healthcare Science Practitioners Pharmacy and assistants Logistics and Warehouse staff Medical Records staff Radiation Physics and Protection Service (RRPPS) Medical Physics/ Electro Biomedical Engineering (EBME) This list is not exhaustive. Please contact Manual Handling Training UHB for advice if you are unsure. manualhandlingteamuhb@uhb.nhs.uk
Manual Handling (Patient)	Two yearly	Clinical staff – Patient Facing (Acute, Community, Primary Care) who move and handle patients as part of their duties: Registered Nurses (including Paediatric Nurses) and Midwives; Nursing Associates; Nursing and Midwifery Assistants; Nursery Nurses (if working on post-natal wards); Trainee Nurse Associates Allied Health Professionals (AHPs): Therapy staff (Physiotherapists/Occupational Therapists/Speech and Language/Dieticians and Therapy assistants) Radiography (Therapeutic and Diagnostic Radiographers and assistants – imaging, MRI/CT, radiotherapy) Ambulance Paramedics and healthcare assistants working in UHB Emergency departments/AMU/MAU Critical Care and Outreach Surgical Admission/Day surgery/Short Stay Theatre and EPOC staff (Anaesthetics and Pre-op, Medical, Surgical consultants; Nursing, Operating department practitioners (ODPs), Theatre Support Workers (TSW)) Endoscopy Bank Staff – Nursing HCSW ODO & ODP Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) – clinical staff Out Patient Departments: Research nurses; clinical nurse specialists; Diabetes Research Unit; Research & Development Electrocardiogram Lung Resource Centre Endocrinology; Neurophysiology Clinic; Day Surgery Preadmission Screening; Diabetes Research Unit; Research & Development; Nuclear Medicine Phlebotomy Dentists and Dental Nurses Breast Screening Admission/Discharge Hubs Pharmacy Assistants who work on Ambulatory Care QEH only All medical staff including consultants, GPs, all training grades, FY1 and 2; CT and ST 1&2. Physician Associates, Medical staff working in Critical Care, Surgical, and Theatre environments (not laboratory). This list is not exhaustive. Please contact Manual Handling Training UHB for advice if you are unsure. manualhandlingteamuhb@uhb.nhs.uk
Clinical Resuscitation Level 1	Annual	Porters
Level 2	Annual	Clinical staff with direct clinical care responsibilities including qualified healthcare professionals require Level 2 resuscitation training as a minimum e.g. All doctors Nurses Midwives Allied Health Professionals This list is not exhaustive. Please contact Resuscitation Training UHB for advice if you are unsure. resuscitation.training@uhb.nhs.uk
Level 3	Annual	Clinical staff including registered healthcare professionals with a responsibility to participate as part of the adult, paediatric or neonatal resuscitation team, working in acute areas such as ED, CCU, acute medicine, cardio physiology, interventional radiology and administering sedation in the care of dental or podiatric patients.
Level 4	4 yearly with an annual update	Clinical staff - Registered healthcare professionals with a responsibility to lead or be part of the trauma, adult, paediatric or neonatal resuscitation team, should undertake Advanced Life Support level training in the appropriate speciality group.
Infection Prevention & Control, level 2	Annually	All healthcare staff groups involved in direct patient care or services
Safeguarding Adults and Children MCA and DOL’s, Level 3	3 Yearly	All Healthcare staff – staff who undertake assessment, care, treatment, procedures, non-clinical and clinical staff who have some degree of contact with children and young people and/or parents/carers.
Clinically Enhanced Safeguarding Training, level 3	Annually	Registered practitioners and doctors that work in ED, paediatric, neonatal, sexual health Midwifery support workers, registered practitioners and doctors that work in maternity Site leads Safeguarding champions

Last reviewed: 08 July 2025