The School of Nursing and Midwifery runs a business development unit which acts as a rapid response area for all requests for consultancy and bespoke work.
The unit is seen as the central point for all consultancy requests so that the school can react quickly in providing these services, and identifying the right academic, researcher or consultant to meet your needs.
Described below are some of our products and examples of work undertaken:
Quality Assurance Consultancy
Recognising educational Quality (ReQ) Mark
A collaborative project with the University of Surrey, the Recognising educational Quality (ReQ) Mark and has been designed as an innovative way to attach academic quality to workplace educational programmes.
ReQ is a quality mark for 'service provider' in-house education and training provision. The service provider, in conjunction with a ReQ advisor from the university prepares a proposal and portfolio of evidence for their in-house workshop, conference or course to be quality approved. Once approved, they can promote their learning event with the university logos and the ReQ mark for a defined period of time.
Benefits:
- Meeting quality assurance criteria ensures programmes can evidence learning and its impact on service delivery
- Evidence of university recognition of the quality of a learning experience
- Facilitates business knowledge creation/transfer
- Strengthens workforce competency assessment
- Provides a recruitment incentive
- Income generation for end user
- Band 2, 3 and 4 health care staff will be able to gain recognition for engagement with educational activity in the workplace through credit recognition linked to the Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care (Fryer 2006)
For enquiries about ReQ please contact:
Susannah Davidson
Faculty Business Development Manager
S.L.Davidson@brighton.ac.uk
Educational consultancy
The School of Nursing and Midwifery has experience of offering consultancy within the following area:
- Learning needs analysis, skills audit and workforce planning
- Educational consultancy and guest speaking on subjects such as: confidentiality, flexible learning and work-based learning.
- Team development
- Clinical supervision
- Skills bank/clinical skills expertise
The International Health Development Research Centre, part of the school's research base, offers consultancy in the following areas relating to health promotion:
- Capacity building
- Education and training
- Professional development
The consultancy will bring specialised skills in the areas you most need it, enabling you to find suitable solutions to your needs.
Bespoke education
We can tailor education to meet our clients specified needs, for example developing bespoke education/training programmes for our partner trusts and other valued clients. Programmes can cover a vast array of subject areas, however, recent examples include:
- Tracheotomy training for nursing home staff
- Venepuncture (beginners and advanced techniques)
- Clinical supervisor education
An exciting course we are currently developing is a European Return to Nursing course. This module is being developed due to demand from EU nurses who are contacting us with advice from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) that they require a 'period of exposure' to a specified clinical or theoretical area. This work is being undertaken in accordance with the NMC circular 7/2008.
Commercial contract research
We have an active research centre with strong links to the NHS and the National Institute for Health Research. As such we are able of offer health-related research solutions to private sector companies and individuals. Recent commercial contracted research has been within the field of operational trials for new products with a health focus.
Client testimonial
The school and Maggie Stewart (academic) have undertaken operational trial research on my product, the Easidream™ cot rocker. I have been impressed with their professionalism and phenomenal knowledge. I look forward to working with them on future product development.
Lynda Harding, CEO, Sweetdreamers Ltd.
Our clients and networks
The School of Nursing and Midwifery is contracted to 13 trusts within the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority. The school networks with these trusts in a number of ways and we have an education liaison linked with all trusts within our local area. These staff members are educators with many years experience. They each have a clinical background so understand the key areas of importance to our clients. The education liaison team work very closely with the business development unit to respond quickly to your needs and requirements in the most appropriate manner.
We also network with over 150 private, independent and 3rd sector (voluntary organisations, social enterprises and charities) healthcare providers. We have two education liaison individuals who work in geographical locals, meeting these clients' needs.
The school actively networks with European partners, both in terms of education and research. Currently we have over 30 international partners.
