Regional Training Days Funding
Being in a Specialty Post: Regional Training Days Funding
Each STC within KSS Deanery may choose to deliver a programme of centrally run regional training days over the course of the financial year. The programme is delivered over a financial, rather than academic, year since funding arrangements must be agreed in advance with KSS Deanery during the business planning process, which is finalised by April of each year.
Trainees within KSS Deanery are typically allocated approximately £860 each towards study leave. All regional training days should be funded by the STC, retaining a proportion of trainees’ study leave funding, a process referred to as top slicing. For example, a specialty with a cohort of 100 trainees may choose to top slice at a rate of £160 per trainee. This would give the specialty a regional training days’ budget of £16,000 for the financial year, and leave each trainee with approximately £700 to use locally towards other study leave.
It is expected that all of the top sliced study leave funding should be used towards events of educational benefit to the trainees. No additional funding outside of the top slicing model is regularly made available for the provision of training within KSS Deanery. However, if a STC wishes to delivery additional training requiring further financial support, it should produce a business case and submit it to KSS Deanery for consideration.
Management
Where it is delivering regional training days, each STC should appoint a lead to help in the planning and delivery of a successful programme. Together with the SWT, it is their responsibility to:
- ensure sufficient funding is available;
- book venues and refreshments;
- ensure training is educationally suitable for the curriculum;
- ensure quality of delivery;
- book suitable speakers and / or trainers;
- invite trainees and monitor attendance;
- monitor costs, and report back to the STC;
- evaluate and use this to shape future training.