NHS Agency Mandatory Training Requirements

Agency Nurses

Face to face training:

• Basic, Intermediate or Advance Life Support (Adult or Paediatric, as appropriate)
• Moving and Handling (loads and people, as appropriate)
• Fire Safety – Practical (induction required)

Online training:

• Complaint Handling
• Equality & Diversity
• Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia & Learning Disability
• Food Hygiene & Safety
• PSTS/Conflict Management
• Fire Safety
• Health & Safety
• Handling Information & Information Governance
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Lone Worker
• Safeguarding Children Levels 1 & 2
• Safeguarding Adults Level 1 & 2
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
• RIDDOR
• Documentation & Record Keeping

Registered Mental Health Nurses

Face to face training:

• Basic, Intermediate or Advance Life Support (Adult or Paediatric, as appropriate)
• Moving and Handling (loads and people, as appropriate)
• Fire Safety – Practical (Induction required)
• Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA)

Online training:

• Complaint Handling
• Equality & Diversity
• Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia & Learning Disability
• Food Hygiene & Safety
• PSTS/Conflict Management
• Fire Safety
• Health & Safety
• Handling Information & Information Governance
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Lone Worker
• Safeguarding Children Levels 1 & 2
• Safeguarding Adults Level 1 & 2
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
• RIDDOR
• Documentation & Record Keeping

Care Support Workers

Face to face training:

• Basic, Intermediate or Advanced Life Support (Adult or Paediatric, as appropriate)
• Moving and Handling (loads and people, as appropriate)
• Fire Safety – Practical (Induction required)

Online training:

• Complaint Handling
• Equality & Diversity
• Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia & Learning Disability
• Food Hygiene & Safety
• PSTS/Conflict Management
• Fire Safety
• Health & Safety
• Handling Information & Information Governance
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Lone Worker
• Safeguarding Children Levels 1 & 2
• Safeguarding Adults Level 1 & 2
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
• RIDDOR
• Documentation & Record Keeping

Care Certificate:

• Understanding Your Role
• Your Personal development
• Duty of Care
• Working in a Person Cantered Way
• Communication
• Privacy and Dignity
• Fluids and Nutrition

Locums

Practical training:

• Basic, Intermediate or Advanced Life Support (Adult or Paediatric, as appropriate)
• Newborn Life Support (required for baby units or SCUBU/NICU/PICU)
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (Surgical Doctors)
• Moving and Handling (loads and people, as appropriate)
• Fire Safety – Practical (Induction required)

Online training:

• Complaint Handling
• Equality & Diversity
• Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia & Learning Disability
• Food Hygiene & Safety
• PSTS/Conflict Management
• Fire Safety
• Health & Safety
• Handling Information & Information Governance
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Lone Worker
• Safeguarding Children Levels 1 & 2
• Safeguarding Adults Level 1 & 2 (Level 3 for Paediatric Doctors)
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
• RIDDOR
• Documentation & Record Keeping
• Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression (Doctors working within Mental Health Settings)