LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT AT KEYLL DARREE
A wide range of education and training opportunities are available to all staff in the Department of Health and working in health and social care and related fields in the private and voluntary sectors.
Most workshops, events, seminars and courses are open to all staff. Specific programmes of study are also arranged for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
The Department of Health Education and Training Centre at Keyll Darree is the main facility available for educational programmes for the Department of Health and Department of Social Care. They can be contacted on +44 (0) 1624 651420.
Jacqueline Yates - Head of Learning
The Learning Strategy
The Joint DH/DSC Learning Strategy Group has agreed a learning strategy to take learning and development in the following broad directions:
| Building on the trend from | to |
|---|---|
| Fragmented provision | Co-ordinated provision |
| Single profession-driven learning | Multi-professional learning alongside single profession-driven learning |
| Learning being for professional people | Learning being for everyone |
| Training | Learning |
| Little original research | More original research |
| Learning being separate from practice | Learning and practice developing hand-in-hand |
| Learning achievement being seen as a private matter | Celebrating learning achievement |
| Learning at the beginning of a career | Lifelong learning |
| Learning at the request of staff | Learning encouraged by managers |
| Learning mainly through face to face methods | Increasing the amount of e-learning |
| Developing programmes ourselves to meet our needs. | Working closely with other education and training providers to enhance learning |
The Learning Strategy is backed up by a Learning Action Plan which gives us concrete objectives and targets for the development of learning in the Department of Health and the Department of Social Care.
If you would like to know more about the Strategy or our Plans please contact:
Dr Jacqueline Yates
Tel: +44 (0) 1624 642894
Email:jacqueline.yates@gov.im
