Clinical Coding trainers

 

It is perhaps indicative of the high value now being placed on TAP training delivery skills across the Service that Approved Clinical Coding trainers are required to achieve a TAP Training Delivery Skills Certificate.

http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/data/clinicalcoding/codingadvice/toolbox/approved/index_html

 

 

Clarifying the facts on qualifications for NHS trainers

 

Some Trusts have been led to believe that PTLLS is a required qualification for all their trainers. This is not the case.

The QTLS qualifications (Qualified to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) including PTLLS were introduced by Lifelong Learning UK (now defunct) in 2008, to address the needs of teachers and tutors primarily working in the Further Education sector.

PTLLS was NOT designed to meet the needs of L&D trainers working for private or public sector employers. Read the facts on PTLLS.
 

NHS - TAP trainers community

TAP - the de facto NHS training delivery standard 

TAP has long been a recommended ETD standard (the ETD S 3.0 Connecting for Health - Trainer Standards, Pre-requisites and Qualifications document put TAP first in the list of trainer qualifications).

The current ETD Standards (downloadable from  http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/) do not list approved qualifications, however the various TAP skills modules cover all eight Standards. With the majority of trainers across the Service now holding at least one TAP qualification, and with it now being mandated for all Clinical Coding trainers, we hope that TAP-quality training will become the norm in all disciplines.

More than 2,600 NHS trainers have achieved certification of their skills under the TAP programme since 1998. The majority have achieved certification of their Training Delivery Skills. Others have completed a range of TAP modules, spanning e-tutoring, facilitation, coaching, training design & development, blended learning, learner engagement and others. 

More than 90 Trusts participated in the 2009 TAP Learning System survey which produced amazing results.

To see a diagram of the TAP Qualifications Matrix, click here. 

 

Details of TAP courses for NHS trainers

To view outlines of all relevant skills courses, click here

 

NHS Case Studies

Click on the title: (all require Adobe Acrobat reader)

Working at the Heart of the NHS (275KB)

1,000th TAP qualified NHS trainer (258KB)

TAP and the NHS 'Connecting for Health' (326KB)

Kings College Hospital  (721KB)

Moorfields Eye Hospital (263KB)

NHS Education South Central (1.80MB)

Cwm Taf NHS Trust (645KB)

2,000th TAP qualified NHS trainer; Oxleas NHS  (716 KB)

National Leadership and Innovation Agency in Healthcare – Wales - English version (1.54 MB)

National Leadership and Innovation Agency in Healthcare – Wales - Welsh version (1.54 MB)