NHS England South East Supervising Pharmacist Education Resources

Written by AlisonFreemantle on Friday 7th July 2023

Supporting Foundation Year Pharmacists

Educational Frameworks

NHS ENgland South East has developed frameworks for both the Educational and Practice Supervisor roles within pharmacy for staff who manage and deliver training.

The frameworks can be used as a standalone tool for supervisors to identify the competencies relevant to their role(s) and to demonstrate competence against criteria set by mapping their experience to them and identifying learning needs.

The frameworks can be found here:

https://www.lasepharmacy.hee.nhs.uk/workforce-and-quality/

e-Learning for Health (eLfH): Practice and Educational Supervisor Training

eLfH provides online training for Practice and Educational Supervisors.  There are two programmes which can be accessed:

  • Core Skills for Pharmacy Practice and Educational Supervisors for all that are new to the role of a supervisor and/or those that have not practiced role for a number of years.
  • Enhanced Skills for Pharmacy Practice and Educational Supervisors for all supervisors looking to further develop as a supervisor.

These programmes have been written for pharmacy professionals; however, pharmacy support staff will be able to achieve key development skills from completing this course via eLfH.

Access to the programmes can be found here:

General Pharmaceutical Council

The GPhC has developed resources for designated supervisors.  These resources can be found here:

NHS England Pharmacy Workforce, Training and Education

Have a webpage designed to support designated supervisors with information about the trainee pharmacist’s foundation year. This can be accessed here: