Clinical practice Prescribing Professional development
Wed 14 Oct 2026 09:30-15:30
Online Course, 5 CPD Hours

Practical strategies to strengthen workplace teaching, supervision and clinical learning

Specially designed for clinicians involved in workplace teaching, supervision and assessment, this interactive online workshop will explore useful approaches to supporting learners effectively within busy healthcare environments.

As an intentionally multidisciplinary workshop, this training is suitable for clinicians involved in day-to-day supervision of learners across many healthcare settings, including prescribing trainees, students, foundation professionals, and developing practitioners.

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Teaching, Supervising and Supporting Learning in Clinical Practice
Online 5 CPD hours From £299+VAT

Education in the clinical setting

Actionable approaches to improving workplace teaching and learner support

This interactive online workshop will explore realistic approaches for effective workplace learning, supervision and assessment within pressured clinical services. Key learning outcomes include:

  • Understanding how adults learn in clinical environments 
  • Exploring practical approaches to teaching efficiently during routine clinical work 
  • Identifying teachable moments within busy healthcare settings 
  • Strengthening confidence in clinical supervision and learner support 
  • Developing psychologically safe learning environments 
  • Improving constructive feedback and reflective conversations 
  • Managing challenging supervision situations and struggling learners 
  • Supporting prescribing trainees and developing professionals safely 
  • Building confidence as a clinical educator across multidisciplinary teams

Live online learning

Interactive discussions and real-world leadership case study learning

This educational online workshop will combine presentations, facilitated discussion and practical case study learning exploring current challenges in workplace supervision, teaching and learner support.

On the day, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Join online with clinicians and practice educators from across the UK 
  • Take part in interactive benchmarking discussions exploring workplace teaching and supervision challenges 
  • Ask questions and gain practical insight from Professor Jane Portlock, Professor of Pharmacy Postgraduate Education, University of Reading 
  • Explore real-world supervision scenarios, feedback challenges and assessment dilemmas 
  • Reflect on challenges within your own organisation and identify practical improvements you can implement immediately 
  • Share learning and practical strategies across multiple healthcare professions

In-house training

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 25 people or more. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

9:30
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity. Icebreaker discussion:
  • What are your experiences of teaching in practice?
  • What challenged have you encountered when supervising learners?
  • What do you hope to gain from the day?
Foundations of effective clinical teaching
10:00
Opening remarks and workshop overview
  • Why workplace learning matters
  • The changing expectations on clinicians as educators
  • The realities of teaching in busy clinical settings
  • Creating positive learning environments
Jane Portlock, Professor of Pharmacy Postgraduate Education, University of Reading
10:20
Principles of effective workplace teaching
  • How adults learn in clinical environments
  • Teaching efficiently during routine clinical work
  • Identifying teachable moments
  • Encouraging clinical reasoning and reflection
  • Balancing patient care with teaching responsibilities
10:55
Questions and answers with Jane Portlock
11:00
Interactive discussion: Sharing practical strategies from different professions
  • What are your common supervision challenges?
  • What makes an excellent clinical educator?
11:20
Screen break
Supporting learners and giving feedback
11:35
Effective supervision in clinical settings
  • Supporting learners at different stages
  • Building learner confidence safely
  • Encouraging independence appropriately
  • Managing struggling learners
  • Creating psychologically safe learning environments
12:10
Delivering meaningful feedback
  • Giving constructive and actionable feedback
  • Difficult feedback conversations
  • Supporting reflective practice
  • Documentation and accountability in supervision
  • Feedback models that work in practice
12:45
Questions and answers with Jane Portlock
1:00
Lunch
Assessment, professionalism and clinical education challenges
1:30
Practical approaches to workplace assessment
  • Informal and formal assessment approaches
  • Assessing clinical reasoning and professionalism
  • Supporting prescribing learners safely
  • Recognising limitations and escalation concerns
  • Fairness, consistency and accountability
2:10
Case-based workshop: challenges in clinical supervision. Participants will work through practical scenarios involving:
  • Learners lacking confidence
  • Unsafe practice concerns
  • Difficult feedback situations
  • Time pressures and competing priorities
  • Supporting prescribing trainees
  • Interprofessional supervision situations
2:50
Screen break
Developing confidence as a clinical educator
3:00
Developing your own teaching and supervision framework
  • Identifying personal strengths and development needs
  • Building confidence as a workplace educator
  • Practical tools and resources to support teaching
  • Reflection and action planning
  • Creating sustainable teaching approaches within busy services
3:20
Final reflections and take-home messages
3:30
Close of workshop

Your expert workshop leader

Professor Jane Portlock has extensive experience across postgraduate healthcare education, workplace learning and professional development, supporting clinicians and organisations to strengthen workplace teaching, prescribing supervision and educational practice across clinical settings.

Jane Portlock
Job Title:
Professor of Pharmacy Postgraduate Education
Organisation
University of Reading
Biography

As a pharmacist, postgraduate tutor for pharmacists and an academic, Jane has spent a number of years creating and delivering education, initially at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Portsmouth and then at the University College London School of Pharmacy and the University of Sussex.

These education roles have led to the development of research interests and numerous PhD projects in pharmacy education such development of peer mentors, the role of simulation in undergraduate pharmacy, development of placement education using the “Pharmacy Live” concept of immersive education, the place of professional leadership in undergraduate education, development and evaluation of new roles for pharmacy, development and evaluation of psychological approaches to helping people make healthy choices and the evaluation of the concept of Healthy Living Pharmacy. 

Jane is Professor Emerita at the University of Reading, with a continued interest in pharmacist prescribing.

Pricing Structure

  • £399+VAT - one NHS or Public Sector place
  • £299+VAT - two or more NHS or Public Sector places
  • 4th place free! Book 3 NHS or Public Sector places and get the 4th for free

You or a colleague can claim the group NHS discounts, for booking two or more places across this and any other subsequent event, providing the same pricing structure applies. 

For group bookings of five or more people, please email our delegate support team or call 01732 897788 for further details

This course is available for in-house training 

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 25 people or more. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Vanessa Jarman for further details.

Reservations

You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation whilst waiting for your study leave to be approved, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

How this online forum will work

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Terms and conditions

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Who should attend?

Connect with clinicians and practice educators supporting workplace learning across healthcare services

This workshop offers an opportunity to connect with clinicians and practice educators from across the UK, share experiences and explore practical approaches to strengthening workplace teaching, supervision and learner support within pressured healthcare environments.

The workshop would be suitable for:

  • Pharmacists
  • Nurses
  • Advanced Clinical Practitioners
  • Allied Health Professionals
  • Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs)
  • Designated Medical Practitioners (DMPs)
  • Clinical supervisors
  • Practice educators
  • Clinicians supporting workplace learning

The workshop avoids positioning itself as solely a DPP course and instead focusses on broader clinical education and supervision skills applicable across healthcare professions.

If you have a team that is 25 people or more, you can have a bespoke course delivered online to your team alone. Please contact Sarah Kemm or telephone 01732 897788.

Past attendee feedback

This online study day follows on from a history of successful independent prescribing workshops. Don’t take our word for it, check out some of the feedback:

“A great session which has supported me as a prescriber going forward”

Independent Prescribing: Innovations and Best Practice, 2025

“Very informative, Jane is extremely knowledgeable and tech-savvy too”

Independent Prescribing: Innovations and Best Practice, 2025

“Excellent update on key themes and topical subjects”

Independent Prescribers: Legal Implications and Fitness to Practice, 2024

“Excellent and very informative”

Independent Prescribers: Legal Implications and Fitness to Practice, 2024

“It was great attending, very much informative and thoughtful”

Independent Prescribers: Legal Implications and Fitness to Practice, 2024

”Very well put together”

Driving Forward Independent Prescribing Practices, 2021

”Timely, informative and useful”

Driving Forward Independent Prescribing Practices, 2021

”Excellent content and beyond excellent support/communication from SBK”

Driving Forward Independent Prescribing Practices, 2021

View further comments on SBK Healthcare events on Trust Pilot.

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing NHS delivery forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Your event, managed by us

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Vanessa Jarman 
Contact: 01732 897788 
Email: vanessa.jarman@sbk-healthcare.co.uk