Town Deal: Health and Care Skills Academy
The Health and Social Care Skills Academy is being developed with £1.25m of Town Deal investment to deliver a new training facility within University Hospital of Hartlepool. The skills facility will be owned and operated by North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Hartlepool College of Further Education.
The academy will be a state-of-art health and social care training facility and one of only a handful in the country with purpose built medical simulation suite. The Academy with wide ranging pathways to access qualifications, will be focused around multiple fully-equipped rooms which replicate a range of environments that trainees will be working and training in, such as:
- Acute care: including patient and clinical equipment simulators for training in maternity, general clinical skills, intensive care treatment, major incidents and trauma;
- Specialist clinical procedures: including simulation for endoscopy
- Community: including simulation of ‘at home’ health and social care scenarios such as community health, dementia care and child and vulnerable adult safeguarding
The academy will also have the ability to house a 6-bed training bay, two ICT suites, a trainee common room and several other flexible training and class rooms and be located in the former Ward 10 of the hospital, with the main capital investment from Town Deal funding the internal redevelopment and the provision of a range of simulation equipment required for each of the suites.
Latest news
- Development of the Academy is underway and expected to be completed and open in 2024.
- The Main Contractor has been appointed for the capital build and works begin imminently
- Local Skills Improvement Funding has been secured by the NHS to support the delivery of the project
- Business Development Manager appointed to grow the success of the project
Health and Care Centre of Excellence
Please feel free to ask the Team any questions about this exciting new training facility in the town.