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Learning and development
Education Centre
BOPDHB is committed to encouraging innovation and excellence in practice. BOP Clinical School
Education Centre is responsible for enabling and supporting staff through provision of education,
professional development, and recognition of excellence in innovation and research.
BOP Clinical School Education Centre at Tauranga Hospital and Whakatāne Clinical School provide
education and training facilities for BOPDHB staff. The Education Manager has responsibility for both sites
and the administration support team who manage the facilities, room bookings and day to day operations.
The Education Team plans, procures, organises and administers non-clinical education and training on
behalf of the organisation. Courses include: Treaty of Waitangi, cultural awareness, customer services,
leadership topics, conflict resolution, healthy living and others. Education team administrators advertise,
book and record staff training attendance and maintain electronic training records.
The Education Team administers the Midland Advanced Leadership and Leadership in Practice
programmes. Information regarding these programmes can be found on OnePlace under the Staff
Education link on the right hand side of the home page.
E-learning
BOPDHB offers an increasing number of clinical and non-clinical on-line courses for staff including:
mandatory training requirements, e-Portfolios, and quality and customer service courses. The Midland
Learning site also hosts a number of national forums fostering a learning community for specific interest
groups. The e-learning facilitator (Ph: 4705 or email [email protected]) works within the
education team and is responsible for maintaining the site, training course developers and monitoring
course development and recording.
For more information on e-learning, go to the OnePlace home page and click on Staff Education on the
right hand side menu.
Innovation Awards
The BOPDHB Innovation Awards give DHB employees and contractors an opportunity to showcase
innovative initiatives which have been undertaken in their service within the past two years. The purpose
of the awards is to recognise the positive contribution of individuals and groups towards achieving service
improvement in their organisation; to acknowledge the quality of projects and to communicate these
initiatives to the wider DHB and community.
Applications are invited from BOPDHB employees and all providers of health services funded by
BOPDHB. Innovations need to be related to a service, facility or process funded by BOPDHB and should
demonstrate tangible results.
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