This workshop will equip experienced social care nursing staff with the confidence and tools needed to provide preceptorship leadership within your organisation.
Preceptorship lead role workshops: embedding and championing preceptorship in adult social care
Next preceptorship lead role workshop:
Date: Tuesday 2 June
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Location: Online
When you book your place, you'll receive a confirmation email.
If you’re attending this workshop, you’ll:
- Need to attend one of the preceptor role workshops. Find out more
- Be invited to communities of practice sessions.
If you can’t make the next workshop book your place for an upcoming date:
- Thursday 8 October | 10:00 – 11:30 | Online
- Wednesday 3 February | 10:00 – 11:30 | Online
100% of 2025 workshop attendees rated the workshops as valuable! View the feedback.
Overview
This workshop is designed to equip experienced social care nursing staff with the confidence and tools to provide preceptorship leadership within your organisation.
Nursing preceptorship is a structured period of support for newly registered nurses and nursing associates (preceptees) as they transition into their professional roles.
It aims to uses the existing knowledge and skills of your experienced nursing staff to provide preceptorship leadership and act as preceptors.
By implementing a preceptorship programme within your organisation, you create a smooth transition into the workforce, promoting safe, effective, and confident practice that provides a sense of belonging and professional identity.
What to expect
You'll engage in helpful discussions and activities exploring how to measure the impact of the preceptorship programme in your organisation.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Access helpful resources supporting you to implement a preceptorship programme for your organisation.
- Consider what ongoing support you’ll need to carry out the preceptorship lead role moving forward.
- Develop and implement a preceptorship policy for your organisation.
- Evaluate the impact of a preceptorship programme.
- Link to community of practice for preceptorship leads offered by Skills for Care.
- You’ll also receive a certificate of attendance.
Who should attend
- Nursing staff with more than 12 months' experience or who have completed a period of preceptorship themselves.
- You’ll provide support to preceptors and preceptees and network with other preceptorship leads to embed the principles of preceptorship within your area.
- Those currently acting as a preceptorship lead or similar are also welcome to attend.
Important: Before joining this workshop, you need to complete the preceptor role workshop
- Thursday 11 June | 13:00 - 16:00 | Online
- Monday 19 October | 13:00 – 16:00 | Online
- Wednesday 10 February | 13:00 – 16:00 | Online
Hear from previous preceptorship workshop attendees!
Take a look at the incredible feedback we received from our 2025 workshops. 100% of attendees rated the workshop as valuable and 97% said they learnt something new. See how they plan to turn learnings into action. View the feedback
The workshop has given me a clear plan on how to support new nurses.
Previous attendee - 2025 preceptorship workshop.