Whatever stage of your career you’re at, we’re here to support your learning and development.
Explore training, CPD, coaching, apprenticeships, professional networks and events to help you build your skills, develop your career and provide the best possible care for patients.
Clinical Training Opportunities
You can find upcoming clinical training dates, along with booking information, on our full training calendar.
Additional Clinical Training Opportunities
Course dates may vary, so please contact the provider directly for the latest availability and booking information.
Dorset HealthCare
Independent prescribing enables pharmacists to play a greater role in patient care, supporting people from diagnosis through to treatment, advice and follow-up.
Funded training opportunities are available for eligible pharmacists working across community pharmacy, general practice, hospitals, mental health services and other NHS settings. Applications for training places with start dates up to March 2027 are now open.
Read more: Independent Prescribing | NHS England | Workforce, training and education
Clinical Supervisor Training
Course information: This course is aimed at staff who wish to become clinical supervisors and assumes no prior knowledge or experience.
Existing Supervisors may use this course for update purposes if they feel an e-learning update would not be sufficient for their needs.
To book onto course please email: dhc.learning.developmentservice@nhs.net
Dates: Please confirm with the provider
Leg Ulcer Management
Venepuncture
Leg Ulcer Update
To book onto course please email: dhc.learning.developmentservice@nhs.net
Dates: Please confirm with the provider
Rotherham Respiratory
Dates: Please confirm with provider.
Visit their website: Rotherham Respiratory LTD – Education in Long Term Conditions for Health Care Professionals
To book onto course please email quoting “DORSET TRAINING HUB”: Enquiries@rotherhamrespiratory.com
Advancing Asthma
Advancing COPD
Advancing Coronary Heart Disease
Advancing Diabetes
Advancing Heart Failure
Advancing Spirometry
Asthma Foundation
COPD Foundation
Diabetes Foundation
Heart Failure Foundation
ILD Foundation
Severe Asthma
Spirometry Performing & Reporting
Spirometry Performing Only
Asthma Update
Atrial Fibrillation
Bronchiectasis
Chronic Kidney Disease
COPD Update
Coronary Heart Disease
Diabetes Update
Heart Failure Update
Hypertension
Non-medical Prescribing Update
Introduction to Paediatric Asthma
Paediatric Asthma Update
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Spirometry Interpretation 7 Steps
Spirometry Paediatric Performing
Spirometry Paediatric Reporting
Spirometry Update
Advancing Paediatric Asthma
Please check our full training and CPD calendar for all the latest workshops, webinars, workforce development sessions and events.
Non-Clinical Training Opportunities
Explore courses, workshops and development opportunities for those working in administration, reception, care navigation, management and other support roles, helping you build your skills, confidence and career.
Please check our full training and CPD calendar for all the latest workshops, webinars, workforce development sessions and events.
Additional Non-Clinical Training Opportunities
This one-hour eLearning course from NHS England and the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) introduces a public health and trauma-informed approach to preventing and reducing violence in health and care settings.
This eLearning course, developed by NHS England and the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), provides an introduction to preventing and reducing violence against staff working in health and care settings.
Find out more on their website: Violence prevention online course | RSPH
Leadership Resources
Develop your confidence, leadership skills and career.
Whether you’re new to a role, taking on additional responsibilities, leading a team or thinking about your next career step, you’ll find a range of leadership resources, coaching and development opportunities to support your growth.
Please check our full training and CPD calendar for all the latest leadership workshops, webinars, workforce development sessions and events.
Leadership for Personalised Care
Discover how personalised care and co-production can help you work in partnership with people and communities.
Explore practical resources, including the Introduction to Leadership for Personalised Care and Leading in Co-Production masterclasses.
You can see their full video list on their YouTube channel Leadership for Personalised Care.
Following the masterclasses, download the course booklet to explore the topics in more detail. It includes a range of complementary resources and practical activities to help you continue your learning.
Coaching Opportunities
Develop your confidence, strengthen your leadership skills and support your wellbeing with our free coaching workshops for primary care staff across Dorset.
Whether you’re a Practice Manager, Social Prescriber, GP, administrator or new to primary care, our experienced coaching team offers practical, interactive workshops designed to help you thrive in your role.
Please check our full training and CPD calendar for all the latest leadership workshops, webinars, workforce development sessions and events.
If there are no suitable coaching course dates available, or you would like to register your interest, please email: Dorsetpcth@dorsetgp.nhs.uk.
Coaching FAQs
Coaching is a confidential, structured conversation that helps you think differently, explore challenges and identify practical ways forward.
A coach will not tell you what to do. Instead, they will help you find your own solutions, build confidence and develop greater self-awareness.
- Gain clarity and focus
- Explore career development opportunities
- Build confidence in a new role
- Navigate change and uncertainty
- Improve decision making
- Identify priorities and goals
- Develop leadership skills
- Explore challenges from a fresh perspective
Our Coaching Faculty includes trained coaches who understand the primary care environment.
‘I wasn’t sure what to expect from GP coaching when I expressed an interest. But I felt that anything was worth a go if it might help me come to terms with my career. As it turned out, it has felt more like coming to terms with myself.
As my coaching has progressed, so have I become more active at accepting my responsibilities for my own life and asserting my agency. I have come to believe that if I wanted things to change for me, it was me who could change them.’
Confessions of a Dorset GP Coachee
Anna Wong, Volunteer
Interested in working as a coach?
We’re always keen to hear from trained coaches who are interested in joining our Coaching Faculty and supporting the development of primary care staff across Dorset.
Please email DorsetPCTH@dorsetgp.nhs.uk to find out more.