Trainee Courses
The SuppoRTT team organises a variety of courses to support trainees with their return to training and the clinical environment. Our courses can be accessed by all trainees who are absent from training, whatever the reason and whatever the absence length. You can also attend courses within the first three months of returning to training.
Most of our courses are delivered virtually and are accessible to new parents. Unless otherwise specified on a course booking page on Maxcourse, you are welcome to bring children under the age of two.
Information about available courses can be found below as well as instructions for viewing the dates of upcoming courses on our course booking site, Maxcourse.
If you have a particular training need to support your return which isn't addressed in our courses, you may wish to consider applying for SuppoRTT CPD Funding.
Available Courses
Building Confidence in your Interpersonal Skills as a Returning Trainee
Duration: One day from 9.30am - 3.00pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Point Taken Training | Frequency: Three times per year
Enhancing patient-centred care requires strong communication skills. This interactive workshop will equop you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to build trust through active listening, clear speech, and empathy. Through role play and discussion, you will refine verbal, nonverbal, and para-verbal communication while managing emotions under pressure.
Enhancing Confidence to Empower you Return to Training
Duration: One day from 9.30am - 4.30pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Tall Spaghetti | Frequency: Three times per year
Discover what confidence looks, feels, sounds and acts like. This liberating and empowering course will give you access to a practical toolkit which can significantly increase your inner comfort and assurance. Elevating your personal confidence will impact your effectiveness and fulfilment in your role.
Essential Skills for Returning Multiprofessional Mums
Duration: One day from 9.30am - 4.30pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Dr Nicki Doddridge and Dr Helen Bryant | Frequency: Three times per year
This course aims to support you to find confidence in your new role as a mother and create balance between your professional life and motherhood. Based on the One of Many™ Women's Exploration of the Soft Paradigm tool, the course will provide you with an introduction to the five Women's PowerTypes and provide a range of tools to effectively manage your wellbeing, time and energy.
How to Process Difficult Emotions for Returning Trainees
Duration: One day from 9.30am - 2.45pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Tall Spaghetti | Frequency: Three times per year
In our everyday lives we experience a range of emotions. This can be challenging to navigate and we may find ourselves in emotional reactivity. In this course, you’ll discover helpful strategies to recognise, process and respond to difficult emotions, leading to greater calm, balance and clarity.
Increase your Productivity and Focus when Returning to Training
Duration: Two x three-hour sessions | Format: Virtual via Microsoft Teams | Delivered by: Positive People | Frequency: Three times per year
How can we manage an ever-increasing, complex workload, during unprecedented change and still have time for personal life?
This hands-on programme will support your preparation to return to a busy working environment by developing an approach which puts you in control, improves productivity and reduces stress.
Managing Challenging Conversations for Returning Trainees
Duration: Three hours | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Dr Susy Stirling | Frequency: Three times per year
Do you ever find yourself having a conversation about someone when you should be having it with them? Do you ever feel apprehensive knowing there is a challenging conversation on the horizon? If so, don’t worry. This course can help you.
We will explore tools that can help you prepare for, and navigate, challenging conversations that you encounter.
Managing Imposter Syndrome for Returning Trainees
Duration: One day from 10.00am - 3.00pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Dr Susy Stirling | Frequency: Twice per year
‘Imposters’ suffer chronic self-doubt and are unable to internalise their accomplishments, no matter how successful they are in their field. This phenomenon can get in the way of professional progress and job satisfaction, which time out of training can exacerbate.
This course provides a safe and supportive group setting to explore what imposter syndrome is, how it may affect you and what you can do about it.
Overcoming Unhealthy Perfectionism for Returning Trainees
Duration: One day from 9.30am - 4.00pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Dr Martin Billington | Frequency: Twice per year
This course will examine and increase your understanding of healthy and unhealthy perfectionism traits within healthcare, including approaches to identify your perfectionist traits to understand when they can be beneficial and address less helpful ones.
Reconnecting with Purpose: Exploring Career Challenges and Rediscovering Professional Passion
Duration: One day from 10.00am - 3.00pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Dr Susy Stirling | Frequency: Three times per year
Sometimes, time away from work makes us re-evaluate our choices. This one-day workshop is an opportunity for you to explore your professional motivation and reconnect with why you chose their career path or specialty, or indeed reconsider whether this remains the right choice for you.
Return to Acute Care Training (ReACT)
Duration: One day from 9.00am - 4.30pm | Format: In-person at Field House Education Centre, Bradford | Delivered by: Dr Jill Horn | Frequency: Twice per year
This course provides structured and supportive opportunities to practice and increase your confidence in core skills including team working, delivering time critical handovers, complex referrals and making challenging decisions. The focus of the day will be tailored to the needs and/or specialties of trainees attending to ensure you are supported in preparing to return to the clinical environment.
Return with Resilience
Duration: Two days from 9.30am - 3.30pm | Format: Virtual via Microsoft Teams | Delivered by: Resilient Practice | Frequency: Three times per year
This transformative course will equip you with the essential skills to return to, and thrive in, a demanding profession. It focuses on practical techniques to enhance communication, manage empathy, set clear professional boundaries (including how to say no), stay present, reduce stress, and create healthy rituals for sustained well-being.
Join us to build confidence, regain control, and return to work with renewed strength and clarity.
Returning to Work: Managing Stress and Improving Self-Care
Duration: One day from 9.30am - 3.30pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: DoctorsTraining | Frequency: Twice per year
This workshop is designed to help you prioritise self-care, combat burnout and enhance overall performance. Participants will learn strategies to manage stress and boost mental fitness, ensuring they can deliver high-quality patient care while maintaining personal well-being and motivation.
The Challenge of Change - Building Resilience
Duration: One day from 9.30am - 4.30pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Petros | Frequency: Twice per year
This programme will equip you with the skills to potentially lead a stress-free life. You will complete a unique, confidential pre-course questionnaire - The Challenge of Change Profile™ - which profiles your personal strengths and liabilities in coping skills. The results of the questionnaire will support you in developing a focused and detailed action plan for implementing change to improve your wellbeing and resilience.
Tiny Habits® for Doctors and Dentists: How to make changes in your life that last forever
Duration: Three hours from 10.00am - 1.00pm | Format: Virtual via Zoom | Delivered by: Dr Katherine Hickman | Frequency: Three times per year
In this workshop you will discover and be coached in applying BJ Fogg’s scientifically established system of behaviour change. The course will help you build extraordinarily strong habits to apply in your personal or working life, to achieve previously unattainable results.
What brings you in today? The art of consulting for returning trainees
Duration: One day from 9.30am to 4.30pm | Format: Virtual via Microsoft Teams | Delivered by: GP Trainers | Frequency: Three times per year
This course will refresh your consultation skills when returning to work in a primary care setting, either as part of a GP or Foundation training programme. We will consider the consultation skills needed and used in every practice and you will have the opportunity to rehearse applying these in skills in small and supportive groups, with an experienced role-player, to increase your consultation confidence before returning to training.
Maxcourse accounts
SuppoRTT courses are booked using the LSFD Maxcourse site.
Before booking any SuppoRTT courses, please check that the Profession and Personal Details sections of your account details have been completed. For help updating your account details or creating an account, please see LSFD Maxcourse help.
Finding upcoming courses
To find dates for upcoming SuppoRTT courses, please use the course calendar or course list on Maxcourse. Links to the course calendar and course list are on the homepage and sidebar. A search tool is also available in the sidebar and homepage.
To improve the results when viewing the course calendar, use the subject filter to show only SuppoRTT courses.
To improve the results when viewing the course list, use the subject filter to show only SuppoRTT courses. Also use the date range filter to show the desired period.
Expenses when attending face-to-face courses
Travel and subsistence (if applicable) expenses for attending face-to-face SuppoRTT courses can be claimed via study leave.
To claim, a study leave application must be submitted on ALM and approved before the event. When submitting your application on ALM, please select ‘Study’ as the leave type and ‘NHSE SuppoRTT Course’ from the event list.
Please see the Study Leave pages for more information about the process.
SuppoRTT CPD Funding
There may be some instances where a training need is identified that cannot be addressed by our provision. Where this is the case, trainees may be able to apply for CPD funding.
CPD funding is available to all trainees who have been absent from clinical training for three months or more. Examples of activities that the funding can be used for include, but are not limited to:
- Bootcamps
- Speciality Specific Training Days
- Mixed Speciality Courses
- Conferences
Funding must be applied for in advance and is only available for courses or events that are taking place within six months of the Trainee's planned return to practice, or three months after their return. In exceptional circumstances, for example, OOPRs who have been out of training for 3-4 years, if the course/activity does not fall between these periods then approval by the SuppoRTT Associate Deans will be required.
Trainees wishing to apply for SuppoRTT CPD funding should read our funding guidance in full before making any application. Funding requests will only be approved if they comply with the policy.
Trainees can apply for CPD funding using our online application form. Please see Study Leave Expense Allowances for details on what expenses can be claimed.