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Training and Clinical Support in Education Team

We are a team of experienced registered nurses who provide healthcare skills training in education settings across Gloucestershire. We work closely with the Children’s Community Nursing Team but are a separate service.

Competency training courses

Our competency training courses are designed to equip education staff with the knowledge, skills and confidence to safely support children and young people with healthcare needs.

Each course includes:

  • Online theory training and assessment
  • Practical teaching using manikins and demonstration equipment
  • Practical assessment to ensure trainees can safely carry out the relevant care skills

Our training is skill-specific, rather than child-specific. Once a trainee has been assessed as competent in a particular skill, they can use that skill to support children with the same relevant care needs.

We also provide annual refresher training for trainees who have previously completed training with us and are still required to provide the relevant care.

We offer the following competency training courses within educational settings:

Special Educational Needs (SEND) schools
  • Feeding (enteral) tube care, including gastrostomy, jejunal and nasogastric tubes.
  • Administering blended diet feeds.
  • Insertion of a gastrostomy stoma stopper.
  • Administration of medication.
  • Administration of emergency medication in the event of an epileptic seizure.
  • Blood glucose testing for pupils who do not have diabetes.
  • Using Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS) during an epileptic seizure.
  • Reinsertion of a nasogastric tube (for registered nurses only).
Mainstream Schools
  • Administering blended diet feeds.
  • Insertion of a gastrostomy stoma stopper.
Nurseries
  • Feeding (enteral) tube care, including gastrostomy, jejunal and nasogastric tubes.
  • Administering blended diet feeds.
  • Insertion of a gastrostomy stoma stopper.

Training safety

Once a trainee has completed their practical assessments, we work closely with them and their wider team to ensure accurate, safe, effective and consistent care. We supervise the delivery of care to the relevant child or children until the trainee has been assessed as competent able to provide the care independently.

Training Request Form (for nurseries only)

Please note, we can accept a maximum of three trainees for each child with a specific care need.

Where possible, please use work email addresses rather than personal email addresses when submitting a training request. Before doing so, please ensure you have read our Privacy Statement.

If your organisation does not agree to the terms of the Privacy Statement, please do not complete the training request form. Instead, contact us to discuss your requirements at: ghc.communitytrainingnurses@nhs.net

Privacy Statement

This is a Privacy Notice – also known as a Fair Processing Notice.

This notice relates specifically to the training information we hold about you that we record and share. 

Training Records

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC) maintains your training data on ClinicalSkills.net. 

This is supplied by a company called Clinical Skills Ltd, they are registered with the information Commissioners Office Registration ZA487582. Clinical Skills Ltd only hosts at UK data centres which have ISO 27001certification. ISO 27001 is an international standard that provides assurances about the robustness of an organisations data security processes and procedures. Clinical Skills Ltd are Cyber Essentials certified and access to the Clinical Skills Ltd server for staff is secured with public/private key authentication, VPN and firewall. Data transferred between the server and system users is protected with industry standard SSL (TLS) encryption. 

Your name and training details/record (no other personal information) can be accessed, via the ClinicalSkill.net system by the GHC trainer and other relevant GHC administrative staff; this is necessary to ensure training compliance targets are achieved, staff are booked onto any necessary training and so that compliance reports can be produced for participating organisation. 

These compliance reports will be shared with the governing body of the relevant staff member. This information included will be full name and the training competencies completed.

Sharing Information

We do not sell, give away or otherwise disclose your training information for any purpose, nor do we provide third parties with your information for the purpose of marketing or sales. The same is true for any of the third party organisations who manage our training systems for us.

Retaining Information

We only retain information for as long as necessary. 

When a member of staff leaves an organisation, the user account will be anonymised. The information will be retained in an anonymous format for statistical and performance purposes.

The training records are reviewed on an annual basis by GHC. Staff who no longer work in partner organizations will have their training records anonymised.

Access to your Training Record

Data protection regulations give you the right to access the information which Gloucestershire Health and Care Foundation Trust holds about you. In the case of your Training Record, you can log into the ClinicalSkils.net to view this and print it off if required. 

GHC’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at: ghc.infogov@nhs.net

Training Request Form

From the 2026/27 school year, a new NHS service will be introduced to help special schools support children with medical needs safely and confidently. This service will not replace your child’s existing healthcare teams, but will give schools better access to nursing advice, clearer guidance and improved training.

What the service will do
  • Give schools quick access to nursing advice about children’s health related needs.
  • Help support schools to keep care plans accurate and up to date.
  • Support safe management of medications, emergencies and delegated health tasks through training.
  • Provide guidance on risk assessments, safeguarding and attendance for children with medical conditions.
  • Work closely with NHS teams and the Local Authority to ensure joined‑up support.
Where it will operate

Nurses will regularly visit the special schools that support children with ongoing or fluctuating health needs and will offer remote advice to others. They will not be based in schools full‑time.

What this means for you
  • Your child’s school will have clearer, more consistent health advice.
  • Care plans and risk assessments will be strengthened.
  • Your child will continue to receive their medical care from their usual NHS teams.

This service is still being developed and will launch next academic year. More detailed information will be shared as we get closer to the launch of the service.

If you have questions in the meantime, you can contact: z.riley@nhs.net

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