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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.

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.

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.

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