An amazing opportunity has arisen to join our team of highly committed trainers, as part of our plans to expand the PITstop diabetes training team.
Our training portfolio focuses on developing practice-based diabetes teams and we are looking for enthusiastic and experienced trainers, working part-time in diabetes roles (or full time, with permission to pay your employers for your time). See our course descriptions and 2022/23 course dates.
Ideally you will have experience delivering diabetes training, along with diabetes-related qualifications to enable you to feel competent in this highly skilled role. The majority of our courses take place Tuesday-Friday.
Lauren Goodchild
The PITstop portfolio of diabetes courses is now available online
We are pleased to announce that dates for all of our national courses are now available online.
You can register and pay online, via the website. The courses include:
PITstop - advanced injectable initiation
PITstop support - supporting people on injectables
1-day PrePITstop - key message foundation course
3-day PrePITstop - full foundation course
1-day HCA PITstop - involving the non-registered practitioner in diabetes services in General Practice
We have already piloted a 1-day HCA course and a 1-day PrePITstop and both well evaluated positively. All students that attended them stated that they would recommend the online courses to others.
We will be sending out resources packs, including the June 2020 workbooks to every delegate.
NEW!! Diabetes Management in Custody Course
After a request from the lead Custody we were asked to provide a diabetes update to the Kent Forensic Medical Team.
2-day HCA course redesigned into a 1-day programme
We listened to feedback from students and trainers to adapt the successful 2-day HCA diabetes course for non-registered practitioners working in General Practice, into a 6-hour programme.
1-day PrePITstop course delivered in Nigeria
Anne Goodchild, Author and lead trainer of PITstop, was asked to adapt the 1-day PrePITstop course to suit a Nigerian audience by Dr Abiola Idowu, a GP from Dover, after he attended a course in Kent.