Changes in our team

Our NEY Regional Faculty Lead for Advancing Practice, Nat Ruscoe will be moving on at the end of January to a new role in the Midlands as their Faculty Lead. Nat will be missed but we wish her well and we thank her for all she has done for Advancing Practice in the North East and Yorkshire.

The team remain accessible and contactable via the NEY inbox if you have any queries around advanced practice please contact us: england.neyadvancedpractice@nhs.net.

Application information

2025/26 NEY Advanced Practice applications

Information for employers

The 2025/26 support and funding for Advanced Practitioners in North East and Yorkshire has gone live!

Any employers who have a trainee starting their advanced practitioner programme from September 2025 to March 2026 can apply for NHS England funding support of £10,200 (TBC) via the application portal here. We recommend that applicants read the Advanced Practice handbook and the NEY Clinical Salary Support Guidance prior to submitting their application as this is subject to an eligibility criteria.

Once this application form is submitted, you must submit the accompanying trainee advanced practitioner job description(s) to england.neyadvancedpractice@nhs.net.

The North East and Yorkshire Advanced Practice application portal for 2025/26 will close on 28^th March 2025.

If you have an advanced practitioner who has already started on their programme and you have not applied for the NHS England support, please get in touch with the faculty as soon as possible on england.neyadvancedpractice@nhs.net.

NHS England Levy Transfer Service

1.     The Education Investments and Commissioning team in North East and Yorkshire offer a service to facilitate the transfer of funds from levy paying employers to non-levy paying employers to pay for apprenticeship training in primary and community care.

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Non-levy paying employers can use these funds to cover 100% of apprenticeship training costs, rather than making a funding reservation via the government website and paying 5% co-investment. Levy contributions made by levy paying organisations expire after two years. By facilitating transfers, we can limit the amount that expires and reinvest that funding back into the North East and Yorkshire NHS system. In the last financial year, NHS England successfully facilitated 526 transfers with a total value of £5.6 Million.

Non-Levy paying employers

If you do not pay the apprenticeship levy but wish to have apprentices fully funded, please complete the online form found here once your apprentice has a course place confirmed.

The levy transfer service will then attempt to source the funding from levy payers in the region, and once confirmed, will support you through every step of the transfer process

Levy paying employers

You can transfer up to 50% of your levy to non-levy paying employers each year. By agreeing to transfer levy funds to another organisation, you are committing to pay for a specific apprenticeship until the apprentice(s) has completed. If you wish to make a funding pledge to support non-levy payers in the region, please email: england.levytransfer.north@nhs.net

Educational events and training information

NHS England funds access to software that supports functional skills learning (until March 2027)

Suitable for: Functional skills learners

NHS England are providing access to bksb which is a software that supports functional skills learning and can help prepare employees who would like to undertake the function skills qualification.

How do I access bksb?

If your organisation already uses bksb and Open Awards through the previous NHSE funded contract you do not need to do anything differently, please continue to book exams and register learners on bksb as you already do.

However, if your organisation is new to accessing these resources please follow the below steps:

Step 1: Identify the member of staff who will be the point of contact for bksb

Step 2: Identify the learners who will use this product.

We don’t need to know names, but we ask that you give bksb an initial number of learners. Please only ask for the number you plan to use, as the number of users is limited, and we want as many people as possible to be able to access.

Step 3: Enrol your learners

Ask your nominated staff member to email: mailto:hee@bksb.co.uk to start the process and enrol learners.

Step 4: Complete and book your exam

Humber and North Yorkshire – Introduction to Educational Supervision session (only available to primary care ES’ in Yorkshire)

This is a fully funded face to face half day introductory course that will equip attendees with some educational theory, an understanding of educator knowledge and skills requirement and an introduction to work based assessment (WBA).

This course is intended for clinicians working in primary and community care environments from the wider workforce professions and GPs who wish to explore how to support their staff better. It is aimed at those individuals in General Practice who have recently been asked to supervise staff and/or would like some fundamentals around the below elements of supervision.

There are multiple upcoming sessions on the booking site. To book onto the course, you will need to click the link below and register for an account on Maxcourse

https://www.maxcourse.co.uk/yhlsfd/guestHome.asp

To view all available courses please click course list in the right hand corner of the page.

Humber and North Yorkshire – Introduction to Clinical Supervision (only available to primary care CS’ in Yorkshire)

This is a fully funded face to face half day introductory course that will equip attendees with basic skills and knowledge to provide clinical supervision within the workplace.

This course is intended for clinicians working in primary and community care environments from the wider workforce professions and GPs who wish to explore how to support their staff better. It is aimed at those individuals in General Practice who have recently been asked to supervise staff and/or would like some fundamentals around the below elements of supervision.

There are multiple upcoming sessions on the booking site. To book onto the course, you will need to click the link below and register for an account on Maxcourse

https://www.maxcourse.co.uk/yhlsfd/guestHome.asp

To view all available courses please click course list in the right hand corner of the page linked above.

Qualified Advanced Practitioner Masterclasses – hosted by Northumbria University

Northumbria University are hosting a suite of masterclasses aimed at Qualified Advanced Practitioners working across multiple specialities within the North East, North Cumbria & Yorkshire region.

These events are free to delegates and are kindly funded by NHS England North East & Yorkshire Regional Advancing Practice Faculty as well as supported by the International Journal of Advancing Practice, the Advanced Practice series – British Journal of Nursing, The Advanced Practitioner textbook series – Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Mobile Educational Learning Improving Simulation Safety Activities (MELISSA) and g&hCritCareEcho.

To book onto an upcoming masterclass or to view more information about the sessions please click the register links below

·         Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Multi-professional advanced practitioner workplace supervision – 7th February 2025 – Click here to register

·         Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Mastering Simulation Modalities – 28th March 2025 – Click here to register

·         Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Introduction to Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) – 4th April 2025 – Click here to register

If you wish to be added to the NEY Faculty of Advancing Practice mailing list, please email england.neyadvancedpractice@nhs.net and a member of team will add you.