SMYBNDCCGS :: SYREC

Improving the skills of the UK’s healthcare workforce

We partner with healthcare employers across the country to improve access to high quality training and development for the healthcare workforce.

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Offering care and support work as a viable career of choice

We are developing a widening participation strategy and a structured career pathway for this workforce.

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To develop communities of practice at place based level, regional level and care group specific level

To identify and share innovative initiatives that satisfy the mission of SYREC.

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SYREC exists to support and promote quality education and training of care and support staff (CaSS) within the SYB footprint, applying joint commissioning to drive

To standardise programmes in an effort to reduce workload, aim for consistency to the benefit of all SYB partners.

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South Yorkshire Region Excellence Centre

Our sector-leading programmes and services enhance the skills of the support workforce - who together comprise more than 40% of the country’s healthcare workers - helping to increase their effectiveness, create opportunities for skill development and give staff and managers the confidence to deliver a better standard of care.

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Training for care and support staff

The network of Excellence Centres unites employers from the NHS, independent and voluntary sectors - as well as quality assured education and training providers – to coordinate, establish and implement high quality skills programmes.

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Trainee Nursing Associates (tNA)

9th January 2019

SYREC have worked together with HEE, on a partnership for a tNA project for Sheffield and Doncaster. We have been successfully accepted by HEE to be one of test sites and have 135 learners between the two places on the programme! We have also had…

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