Medex Group Ltd

Medex (Group) Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Chloe Rendall, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Inspection dates: 22 and 23 January 2025

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: Botanical Gardens Business Centre 3 Southbourne Road Sheffield S10 2QN Monitoring visit: Medex (Group) Limited, 22 and 23 January 2025

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Context and focus of visit

Ofsted undertakes to carry out monitoring visits to all newly directly funded providers of adult learning provision where the provision offered is in scope for inspection. This monitoring visit was undertaken as part of those arrangements and as outlined in the ‘Further education and skills inspection handbook’, especially the sections entitled ‘Monitoring visits’ and ‘Monitoring visits to providers that are newly directly publicly funded’. The focus of these visits is on the themes set out below.

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Context and focus of visit

Medex (Group) Limited is an independent learning provider that currently provides Skills Bootcamps in clinical skills for learners working in healthcare and nursing roles. At the time of the visit, there were 15 learners on a clinical Skills Bootcamp in Lincolnshire which is funded by Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership (GLLEP). All learners are aged 19 or over and are employed by small and medium- sized employers.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers deliver Skills Bootcamps that upskill the clinical practice of care assistants, nurses and senior care workers in the private health sector. They work closely with funding partners such as GLLEP to identify the care sector skills priorities and then deliver training in topics that are essential for employers and their employees. For example, leaders use information from national agencies such as the Care Quality Commission to identify the clinical skills that employers need to train their staff in, such as wound care for non-nursing staff and venepuncture for nurses.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers ensure that Skills Bootcamps help small care home providers and private community care employees to access affordable and necessary training in rural areas. Training enhances the skills of the private care workforce in topics such as catheterisation, oxygen and nebuliser therapy and tracheostomy care. Learners develop new skills and knowledge, which helps them to take on additional responsibilities across a range of care settings.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers recruit qualified staff into training roles. Staff have extensive clinical and nursing experience. Trainers have teaching qualifications and maintain their nursing registration so that they remain expert in the subjects that they teach.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers engage effectively with employers to understand the impact of Skills Bootcamp training on their workforce. Employers are confident that training Monitoring visit: Medex (Group) Limited, 22 and 23 January 2025 addresses their skills needs, and that staff increase their skills in delivering person- centred care in the community and in private care homes.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have sufficient oversight and understanding of the quality of training. They review the strengths and weaknesses of provision with trainers at the end of each Skills Bootcamp and make improvements to the curriculum. Leaders plan to introduce a quality review cycle which will help them to identify weaknesses more quickly, but it is too early to assess the impact of this.

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Reasonable progress

Trainers identify the starting points of learners well and use information to plan an effective curriculum. For example, at the start of Skills Bootcamps, trainers explore learners’ previous experiences and knowledge of verification of expected death, including the different practices and regulations in countries of learners from overseas. They then teach learners how to verify that death has occurred according to Unite Kingdom expectations.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers communicate learning requirements for learners with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) to trainers carefully. Trainers ensure that learners are supported well in face-to-face training sessions, such as by providing overlays for learners with dyslexia to help them with reading and comprehension. As a result, learners with SEND, many of whom are initially apprehensive about undertaking training, feel less anxious and make as positive progress as their peers.

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Trainers use their teaching knowledge and skills well to deliver effective practical clinical skills training. They ensure that learners practise their new knowledge and skills using specialist equipment when taking blood, using a syringe driver and conducting checks using a mannequin to assess a patient for signs of death. As a result, learners develop the competencies that they need in the workplace, where they refine their clinical expertise.

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Reasonable progress

Trainers do not use assessment points well enough to ensure that learners fully understand new concepts at the end of training modules. Learners answer knowledge assessment questions, but trainers do not check their answers well enough to ensure that learners do not demonstrate misunderstandings. Leaders recognise that trainers would benefit from training in assessment design and implementation. Monitoring visit: Medex (Group) Limited, 22 and 23 January 2025

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Leaders, managers and trainers promote a positive culture of safeguarding. The designated safeguarding lead is appropriately trained and has a secure understanding of the local risks that learners may face in the different areas where Skills Bootcamps are delivered.

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Reasonable progress

Trainers provide learners with useful safeguarding information that helps them understand their role in ensuring patients’ and service users’ safety. Trainers remind learners of their safeguarding responsibilities, such as following the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s professional standards of practice and behaviour. As a result, learners treat each other and those they support with courtesy and respect, and are mindful of when safeguarding risks should be reported. Monitoring visit: Medex (Group) Limited, 22 and 23 January 2025 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children’s social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education

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