Bolton NHS Foundation Trust are progressing well after being funded to undertake a scoping exercise to explore and present opportunities for the NWIA to support access to higher education for Imaging Support Workers, considering ways in which Level 2 or 3 occupation specific qualification(s), such as an apprenticeship could be accessed to increase take-up. The project will also consider how competency-based development and other role specific local training which can escalate progression into senior support worker roles and will undertake scoping nationally to identify available online learning to establish how that can support career progression as part of the escalator pathway.

Contacts 

Tess Noon. Project Manager for the Support Worker Program. Theresa.noon@boltonft.nhs.uk

Emma Dodd. Lead Radiographer. emma.dodd@boltonft.nhs.uk

Radiology Department, Bolton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust