Abstract
The department is part of the Human Resources directorate and comprises Kathryn Gardner (clerical officer), Janette Thorpe (administrator), Carl Hunter (adviser) and Michele Pomphrey (manager). Our boss is Jon Lenney Director of HR. We work across all of the hospitals and, as for many in the Trust, this involves a lot of travelling. Our administrative base is at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. The department is small, particularly considering the size of the Trust. We do not take total responsibility for all the training and development of the 5000 staff who work for the Trust. There is a range of people within the Trust with educational, training and developmental responsibilities: most are professionally qualified staff and managers, together with those with special responsibility such as fire officers, resuscitation training officers, educational clinical supervisors and the clinical education manager.