Health services manager : Training

General, informatics, and human resources (HR) management trainees have two years of intensive training; financial management trainees are allowed up to two and a half years in order to complete professional qualifications. National Health Service (NHS) training for all schemes combines work experience with formal management training, projects and attachments. All include an orientation programme introducing trainees to the NHS. The training scheme is followed by a further two years of support. Individual learning accounts are provided to enable new managers to top up their qualifications, or to carry out other developmental opportunities.

General management trainees work towards a PgDip in Health and Public Leadership. Graduates studying the HR management thread work towards a PgDip in Human Resource Management and graduate Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)  status. Informatics management trainees work towards a PgDip in Health Informatics.

Training in the financial scheme lasts slightly longer and combines work-based placements with studying for a professional accounting qualification through the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)  or the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA) .

Managers not on graduate schemes can take advantage of many other in-service management training programmes. Within most areas of the NHS, there is a culture of continuing professional development (CPD). More information is available from the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) .

See the websites of private health providers for details of their training expectations and provision.