Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub – August Newsletter

Skilled Worker Visa Reimbursement Scheme

We are pleased to announce that the Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub (CWTH) Visa Reimbursement Scheme has now been approved. This scheme is designed to support the recruitment and retention of General Practitioners with Skilled Worker visas, by offering financial reimbursement for associated visa costs. 

This is a one-off offer for individual GPs for 2025/26. More detailed criteria and information on how to apply can be found here.

If you are a practice/PCN seeking reimbursement, please click here.

To be eligible for this scheme, General Practitioners must have:

• A CCT Completion Date between 1 April 2024 and 31 July 2025. CCT date has been set at 31.07.25, to cover the last year’s activity. However if your CCT date is up to, and including 30.11.25, please still apply and we will give due consideration where possible.
• Must hold a permanent or fixed-term contract at a GP practice or Primary Care Network in Coventry & Warwickshire at the time of application. This includes applicants employed directly by CRGPA, SWGP or IPC.

Key Timelines

• Practice Sponsorship Licence applications close: 30th September 2025
• Individual visa reimbursement applications close: 30th November 2025

Book onto our final remaining Awareness sessions

You can book onto the final remaining Awareness sessions here 

Want to become an approved Active Bystander Champion?

If you are interested in becoming an approved Active Bystander Champion, you can book the training here.

General Practice Staff Survey

Please watch the above video to see the benefits of taking part in the General Practice Staff Survey.

Building on the huge success from last year’s GP Staff Survey in Coventry & Warwickshire, the 2025 survey has been launched. In the coming weeks, your practice /organisation will be asked if they wish to take part.

Those who took part last year will know the process is simple, and the GP Staff survey team will be here to guide you as well.

Learn more about themes and trends within your practice/organisation such as staff engagement and morale as well as health and wellbeing.  Help target efforts to make your practice/organisation a fulfilling place to work!

The deadline to submit your staff lists is the 15th August.

 For further information, please contact pinky.sidhu2@nhs.net 

Knowledge and Library Services – Summer School

This summer, UHCW are excited to offer a series of in-person and online sessions designed especially for staff who want to feel more confident in their study skills as they head into their next academic chapter. Whether you’re brushing off the cobwebs or building on your current learning, our sessions will give you the tools to succeed.

Then these sessions are available to help you. To register for these sessions, please click here or on the poster.

Trailblazer Fellowships are now open for application!

The Primary Care Trailblazer Fellowships allow motivated, qualified clinicians, to work in practices in areas of socio-economic deprivation. The aim is to develop the skills, knowledge, experience, and resilience to stay working in these challenging, but incredibly rewarding, environments and to help practices in under-resourced areas to recruit and retain clinicians.

Offer

• Open to both early and mid-career General Practitioners and Wider Workforce clinical colleagues.
• 1 day of funded protected fellowship time for professional development and working with other system partners on deprivation focused healthcare.
• Bursary of up to £2,000 to cover postgraduate tuition fees and other costs associated with undertaking education and training,
• Due to start in October 2025 (for a 10 month period) to July 2026.

More information can be found here CWTH – Trailblazer Fellowship Spec C&W – 2025-6.pdf

Applications will close at 1pm on Friday the 22nd August. Apply by clicking the button below.

Principles of Primary Care

Principles of Primary Care (PCiP) is designed to help navigate the world of Primary Care sharing insights into Population Health, Integrated Care Systems, Primary Care Networks and Finance in primary care. It will also cover leadership and coaching and mentoring.

This programme is open, free of charge, to EVERYONE new to Primary Care in Coventry & Warwickshire and comprises of 6 sessions, each designed to support you in your career.

The sessions will be held live, hosted by local GPs, Maria Ceurstemont and Sarah Hall. They will be held as a combination of virtual sessions (through Zoom) and face-to-face sessions.

Offer

Sessions

• Introduction to Primary Care – 1st October
  St Francis of Assisi RC Church, Kenilworth
• Quality in Primary Care – 10th February, 2026
  Virtual session – via Zoom
• Leadership in Primary Care – 12th May, 2026
  St Francis of Assisi RC Church, Kenilworth

Additional Skills Directory

The Training Hub have been looking to see how we can better utilise the skillsets of our primary care practitioners. We are aware that much of our workforce possess additional skills and experience that go beyond their usual professions’ core competencies, which are not currently being utilised.

As such, we have created an Additional Skills Directory for GPs and Pharmacists (other professions to follow) which commissioners and employers can refer to when planning for community services.

Any additional skillsets you are able to offer will be easily identifiable and you will be contacted with any relevant new opportunities. Please do consider filling out the form below: