Regardless of the Tier you are applying for, the Tiered Educator training can be done at your own pace however, we do recommend that you complete the required elements within one year. If this is not possible for any reason, including due to limited availability on the HEI days, please do contact us on primarycare.eoe@hee.nhs.uk to discuss. 

In order to help you plan the completion of your training, we have provided below estimate timings for the content included in the relevant video packs. 

Summary time spent on all modules overall:

eLFH - click here to access

HEI live webinars - educational theory fundamentals - click here to access

HEE video packs - core medical education - click here to access

HEE GP School video packs - GP training specifics 

If you are interested in becoming an educator please first contact your local Training Hub who can help guide and support you through the process.

In the longer run, it is preferable for delegates to complete eLFH, University Day, HEE Hub and GP School-specific material in that order. However, in the pandemic period we’re taking a pragmatic approach that delegates can do these elements in any order to fit around their other work. As long as you complete all those elements before attending the Webinar session, and as long as all elements are complete including the Webinar before submitting your application form, that will be accepted. We may revise this in future if the pandemic situation permits but not until April 2022 at least. We’re keen to provide people with certainty and flexibility to support our educators at this time.

Yes. We greatly appreciate and benefit from the wealth of knowledge that people who have experience with learners bring with them. However, the GP School-specific Training videos are still required for this group because GP Trainees have their own specific needs which are not the same as other groups of learners.

If you trained as an Out Of Hours Supervisor (Tier 2a) in the new HEE Tiered System from 2018 onwards, then you do not need to complete the material you’ve already completed. You can complete Intermediate Packs to become an Associate Trainer (Tier 2b), or Intermediate and Advanced Packs to become a GP Trainer (Tier 3). The Online Webinar will be unchanged, so you only need to attend the part of that morning that you haven’t already completed.

If you trained as an Out of Hours Supervisor before the new Tiered Educator system in 2018 was introduced, then you will need to complete all elements for the Tier of GP Educator you wish to become as if you were a new starter. This is because so many of the elements of training have fundamentally changed in that time and so have the challenges in supporting our trainees. The feedback that we’ve had from delegates so far is that they’ve found this additional learning valuable, and that any additional time taken is probably saved in knowing how to most efficiently and effectively help the group of learners that they’re trying to support.

Several changes have taken place in quick succession over the past couple of years, including a new system for accrediting educators in any specialty by HEE, a Covid 19-driven online version and the RCGP’s new ePortfolio and WBPA system. We’re now streamlining our offering so that it joins together more neatly, takes into account more recent developments of prominence such as the Recorded Case Assessment exam and our work on Differential Attainment, and people taking part will find the content avoids duplication in places.

No. Only the eLFH modules and Panopto videos are updated, but the other elements (HEE Hub material, University Day and Online Webinar) are unchanged. There are new elements and videos but we’ve removed some eLFH material to balance this out, so we anticipate the workload to be very similar in total, and probably less for most participants.

The process remains the same, it’s just that the eLFH and Panopto video content is updated.

Yes! We welcome applications form both full and part time aspiring educators.