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talking to somebody prior to presenting, they had said to him: ‘You’ve got a technician route. It’s EngTech.’ “In fact,” he said, “EngTech is where you are coming out at Level 3 – equivalent after an apprenticeship. It’s not really a technician pathway. What we want to do is value those technicians alongside Incorporated and Chartered Engineers; thinking about the opportunities this brings for professional recognition among your peers – communicating your competence and commitment.” The Professor said that ‘through outreach’ the Engineering Council is keen to hold facilitated roundtables of key stakeholder groups – from ‘early career’ right through to employers, government departments, and agencies. He added: “We’re taking it back to basics, and asking: ‘Is it fit for purpose?’ We want to empower influencers to engage. We will also be issuing an open access questionnaire.” He urged all – when the questionnaire came out via IHEEM – to complete it. He said: “It will give you the opportunity to steer the future of professional registration, and how it’s valued within your sector – and that’s all about the integrity of the register.”
Adhering to its ‘public benefit’ requirement He continued: “We can make the register so difficult to get onto that we have one person on it; the integrity would be fantastic, but that’s not the point. We need to double, treble, and even quadruple its integrity – ensuring that every registered individual has demonstrated their competence and commitment against the relevant standard – to ensure we adhere to our public benefit requirement.” Showing his final two slides, Prof. Chudley
said: “People ask ‘Why register?’ Everyone has a different story. Please look at our website – all the stories are on there, but look at the example of Charlotte there first. She is registered as an EngTech, and cites having been promoted within her company, the range of associated benefits, a pay rise, and having more responsibility as an employee.”
He continued: “We also have an IHEEM- registered individual, Adam, who sees professional registration as ‘a way of making the next step in your career’. Then we go on to Chartered. One Chartered Engineer says on the Engineering Council website: ‘Being a CEng assures our clients that we work according to ethical and professional standards.’ These are the reasons why individuals do it. That’s why you should be professionally registered through IHEEM for your sector and the wider public’s benefit – having confidence in everything the health sector does from an engineering perspective.”
Increase in IHEEM membership This concluded Professor Chudley’s presentation, and here Pete Sellars told the audience: “Our IHEEM membership has increased by 30% over the last five years, so there’s something about the need to get people professionally accredited.” He then introduced the session’s third and final speaker, Simon Corben, Director and Head of Profession, NHS Estates and Facilities, at NHS England, who he said would be
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looking at engineering in terms of corporate governance assurance for the NHS on patient safety. Simon Corben began: “The theme of this year’s IHEEM conference and exhibition is ‘Embracing the Challenges’, and we certainly have plenty of them within the NHS. However,” he continued, “before getting into these, we have structures here at Manchester Central representing quite outstanding engineering. If anyone follows the
Over the past year, Simon Corben explained, the NHS England Estates & Facilities team had undertaken ‘a huge amount of work’ around the Schools Outreach Programme.
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