Developing the Strategy

Stakeholder feedback and co-design has been key to developing an Educator Workforce Strategy. Working with educators, healthcare education partners, learners, regulators, patients, service users and staff, and utilising HEE’s Professional Leads to access their partnership networks, this provided opportunities to gain views across professions and organisations to help inform and shape the Strategy.

A multi-professional webinar held in October 2022 also provided a valuable feedback opportunity, utilising an electronic app to survey and collect views from the educator community.

Campaigns through social media, stakeholder meetings, literature reviews and responses to our call for evidence have all been part of the development of this Strategy.

Terminology

As terminology varies across professions, we are using the word ‘Educator’ as an umbrella term denoted to all roles involved in the education and training of the healthcare workforce, in all settings.

The definition is purposefully inclusive, recognising that education and training occurs across a broad range of settings including universities, in both regulated and non-regulated healthcare professions, pre and post registration. Whilst healthcare professions use different terminology and titles, (workplace supervisors, assessors, practice educators, clinical supervisors, higher education institution faculty, preceptorship leads, educational supervisors, raters, designated supervisors, etc), these individuals all share an important and essential responsibility: providing education and training, workplace supervision and assessment to support the development of the healthcare workforce, ensuring patient safety.