SuppoRTT Guidance Documents

SuppoRTT: Return To Training Guidance

The SuppoRTT guidance provides background information, how SuppoRTT came to be created and the processes which underpin it.

SuppoRTT CPD Funding Guidance

SuppoRTT: CPD Funding Guidance - Updated 14 January 2022.

CPD Funding Application form

SuppoRTT Meetings

There are 3 meetings which underpin the SuppoRTT programme. The SuppoRTT guidance, provides in-depth breakdowns for each meeting and each meeting is accompanied by an electronic form. All meetings to take place with the Trainee and Appropriate Supervisor.

Pre-Absence Meeting

• ​To take place 3 months prior to absence.
• Purpose: To discuss how to stay in touch and any concerns that you may have regarding absence or returning.

• Flow Chart of Responsibility
• Preview Form Questions
• Pre-Absence Meeting Form

Initial Return Meeting

• To take place 8-12 weeks prior to return date.
• Purpose: To create a plan of return, discuss any concerns, training needs and supernumerary / enhanced supervision requests.

• Flow Chart of Responsibility
• Preview Form Questions
• Initial Return Meeting Form

Review Meeting

• To take place at the end of any supernumerary / enhanced supervision period or four weeks after the trainee's return date.
• Purpose: To discuss your progress, review assessments and feedback, address any concerns and arrange further supernumerary / enhanced supervision periods, if required.

• Flow Chart of Responsibility
• Preview Form Questions
• Review Meeting Form

Please note, each electronic form allows you to pause your submission and come back to it later by selecting the 'finish later' option at the bottom of each page. This enables the form to be reviewed or completed by various people such as the Trainee and Appropriate Supervisor*. Once you have selected 'finish later' you will be provided with a screen such as the one shown below. It will provide a unique link for you to access your form and an option to email the link to access later.

Individualised Action Planner

HEE YH SuppoRTT Videos

The below video links provide a personal account of some of the issues and concerns raised, during Supported Return to Training and provide an example for how each SuppoRTT meeting can be take place.

• Pre Absence Plans
• Initial Return to Training Meeting
• Return Review Meeting

If you have any queries relating to the forms please do not hesitate to contact the SuppoRTT Team, supportt.yh@hee.nhs.uk  

SuppoRTT Courses for Trainees

The SuppoRTT Team organises and supports a variety of Support Courses for Trainees. Please find below courses running over the next few months with course links to book. Our SuppoRTT Newsletter details all courses running over the next few months, along with other useful information and the course catalogue provides further details of each course that we run.

December 2022

Friday 9th December

09:00 - 16:30   Human Factors & Communication

January 2023

Friday 6th January

10:00 - 13:00     Tiny Habits® for Doctors - How to make changes in your life that last forever

Friday 13th January

09:30 - 16:30      Confidence Training (Face-to-Face)

Tuesday 17th January

09:30 - 15:30     Finding Energy, Time, Support and Focus - Healthy CPD and Revision Practices for Busy Doctors Juggling Busy Lives

19:30 - 21:00     Have you been affected by Racism During your Training?

Wednesday 18th January

09:30 - 12:30    How to Manage Empathy in Clinical Practice

Friday 20th January

09:30 - 16:30     Clinical Skills & Simulation

09:30 - 15:30     How to Manage Conflict

Monday 23rd January

09:20 - 16:45     Essential Skills for Medic Mums

Monday 30th January

09:00 - 15:00     Difficult Conversations in Paediatrics for International Medical Graduates

Tuesday 31st January

09:30 - 16:30     Mindfulness for Well-Being (Face-to-Face)

February 2023

Wednesday 1st February

10:00 - 15:00   Managing Imposter Syndrome for SuppoRTT

Friday 3rd February

09:15 - 12:30   Confidence Training

Monday 6th February

13:30 - 16:30    How to Stop Burn-Out Ruining Your Career 

Tuesday 7th February

14:00 - 16:00    Mindfulness: An Introduction

Wednesday 8th February

10:00 - 15:00    Know Your Why for SuppoRTT

Thursday 9th February

10:00 - 15:00    Interpersonal Skills Workshop

Tuesday 14th February

09:30 - 12:30    Building Personal and Professional Wellbeing

Wednesday 15th February

09:30 - 15:30    Finding Energy, Time, Support & Focus - Healthy CPD and Revision Practices for Busy Doctors Juggling Busy Lives

09:00 - 15:00    Interpersonal Communication Skills for International Medical Graduates working in Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Thursday 16th February

09:00 - 15:00    Interpersonal Communication Course for International Medical Graduate Internal Medicine Trainees

Tuesday 21st February

09:15 - 12:30    Mindfulness for Well-Being Training

Monday 27th February

09:20 - 16:45    Essential Skills for Medic Mums

March 2023

Friday 3rd March

09:30 - 16:30    Clinical Skills & Simulation

09:30 - 12:30    How to Manage Empathy in Clinical Practice

Tuesday 7th March

10:00 - 12:00    Mindfulness: An Introduction

Thursday 9th March

09:15 - 12:30     Confidence Training

Friday 10th March

09:30 - 12:30    Return with Resilience

Tuesday 14th March

19:30 - 21:00    Have you Been Affected by Racism During your Training?

Wednesday 15th March

10:00 - 15:00    Know Your Why for SuppoRTT

Wednesday 22nd March

09:15 - 12:30     Mindfulness for Well-Being Training

Friday 24th March

09:30 - 15:30    How to Manage Conflict

SuppoRTT Champions

Who are the SuppoRTT Champions?

SuppoRTT Champions  are experienced NHS professionals  based in most secondary care Trusts and the psychiatry Specialty School in Yorkshire and Humber . Their role is to provide leadership within the Trust/School to ensure that the SuppoRTT strategy is fully implemented and results in a high-quality supported return to training for all.

The SuppoRTT Champion can

-       Provides trainees and supervisors with guidance regarding the relevant policies and available resources.

The trainee’s first point of contact is their educational supervisor or training programme director throughout the return-to-work process. However, the SuppoRTT Champions are useful contacts to help with any additional SuppoRTT queries directly related to your Trust. You can view all Champion profiles via 'view All' or select individuals to learn a little more about them.

The SuppoRTT Champions are useful contacts to help with any SuppoRTT queries directly related to your Trust. You can view all Champion profiles via 'view All' or select individuals to learn a little more about them.

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Coaching

Please be advised that all coaching sessions are free for trainees in YH.

The aim of coaching is to increase potential and enhance the careers of those who access it. Sessions are confidential and do not form part of educational assessment. Coaching is time for you to think. 

Coaching is time for you to think.  Your coach won’t judge you, or give you advice.  This means it is ok to talk about anything that you feel gets in the way of you doing your best at work. You can really think things through in a way that is different to talking things over with a friend, partner, TPD or Educational Supervisor - all people who tend to have another agenda for you.  Your coach will support you, and challenge you if necessary, to help you reach a conclusion that is helpful and meaningful to you.

You can have between four and six sessions of free coaching with a coach and it tends to work best if you have all your sessions within a 6 month window.

If you decide that you would like to participate in our coaching programme, click here to register your interest. You can contact your preferred coach directly once your account registration has been approved. Coaching works best if you pick someone outside your Specialty.

Once you have registered as a Coachee and your account has been approved please click here to log in to your account where you can then search and make contact with your chosen Coach.

You can find a quick start guide here and further information can be found on our website.

HEE SuppoRTT: Call for your SuppoRTT ideas!

HEE is providing Local Education Providers and Schools with the opportunity to bid for investment to expand an existing approach or develop a new idea that relates to creating and imbedding a supportive return to practice for doctors and dentists in training.

Examples include (but are not limited to);

• “Brain storming” events for departments, trainers, medical staffing departments, medical education departments, etc. to consider mechanisms to support trainees 
• Specialty-specific developments within Schools to support returners
• E-learning or face-to-face courses
• Trust-based support groups for trainees, with identified objectives
• Enhanced induction or re-orientation to place of work (for example, a video tour of the hospital)
• Technical skills and simulation
• Wellbeing
• Developing resources available to trainees 
• Courses and workshops

The bidding round for activities to run in the 2023/24 financial year opened on Monday 27 February 2023 and will close on Thursday 6 April 2023 at 5.00pm. 

Before submitting a bid, please ensure that you read our SuppoRTT Bid Guidance Notes in full. This contains information about the bidding round, the application procedure to follow, the standards that your application must comply with and the scoring criteria that the panel will use to assess your application. 

Applications must be submitted via our online portal.