GWH

Return to practice

Are you looking for a life changing opportunity to return working back in healthcare?

We offer supported programmes which enable UK candidates with a lapsed live registration (pin) to re-register and resume their professional career.

The Trust provides the framework for return to practice (RTP) support in the workplace for nurses and AHPs (e.g. therapists, radiographers, dietitians).

The RTP Programme is work-based for three to 12 months, during which time you will perform competency-based shadowing, supervisory observation, and will be signed off on successful completion of mandated standards.

To find out more, email gwh.studentplacementteam@nhs.net.

Return to practice for AHP's

For Allied Health Professionals looking to return to clinical practice, we may be able to support you.

If you have been off the HCPC register for two or more years, or if you did not register within five years after qualification, you will need to undertake a period of updating your skills and knowledge.

All returners will need to re-gain their HCPC registration before being able to work using one of the protected AHP titles.

The process is flexible and the HCPC recommend minimum requirements to update your clinical skills, this is dependent on the length of time you have been away from clinical practice, for example:

  • Less than two to five years = 30 days 
  • Five years or over = 60 days

You can be flexible in your approach to updating your skills and this can include formal supervised practice, formal study, and self-directed learning.

To find out more, email gwh.ahp@nhs.net.

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Great Western Hospital

Marlborough Road

Swindon

SN3 6BB