IHEEM 2019 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
to support our Northern Ireland branch in transposing the Northern Apprentice Assessment Centre scheme to Northern Ireland in 2020, as a model apprenticeship curriculum in healthcare engineering.” IHEEMs ‘vision’ was, he said, to develop and roll out a programme of similar ‘franchised’ schemes wherever it could secure regional commitment to demonstrate a sustainable business model, ‘ultimately leading to a fully networked and supported national programme’.
Training officer role
Ian Hinitt explained that the Institute is also developing a business case for a Head Office-based Training officer position, to support NHS Trusts in developing their training needs, and would be developing an offer of full or subsidised bursaries for degree and degree apprenticeship courses. The IHEEM Diversity and Inclusion Group, meanwhile, chaired by Dr Manju Patel from NHS Grampian, was set up to promote and encourage women to engage with the Institute and for the Institute to value their contribution; it works with the IHEEM Council to provide advice and guidance on diversity and inclusion matters. Ian Hinitt said: “The Group now has its own STEM ambassador, Monira Kaouech, Project Support officer at IHEEM’s Head Office, who has taken on responsibility for outreaching to young people at schools and colleges nationally, to all genders and backgrounds, in upholding the values we have in diversity and inclusion.” Ian Hinitt said he believed IHEEM could ‘make a great impact in the transition required to reduce the age profile, while balancing career inequalities, to support the NHS in raising the awareness of young people to the fine career opportunities available in the industry, irrespective of background, gender, and ethnicity, but which are currently not being taken up at a sustainable rate’. Although access to higher education, and upward mobility, meant that there were ‘more undergraduates than ever before’, the sector still faced significant challenges in sustaining and developing its future workforce. The Institute thus needed ‘to bridge the limitations of availability in trained and skilled engineers and allied professions and trades, through a marketing campaign designed to be attractive to young people, in the same spirit as the short films published by the Royal Academy of Engineering’.
Engaging with new partner organisations
Moving to discuss the third of the ‘Five Key Themes’ – ‘Engaging with new partner organisations’ – Ian Hinitt explained that IHEEM’s Training and
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The IHEEM Diversity and Inclusion Group is chaired by Dr Manju Patel from NHS Grampian.
Over 2,300 attendees visited an expanded exhibition space at Manchester Central over the two days of Healthcare Estates 2019 last October.
Development team would be working closely with training providers and NHS Trust Affiliates ‘to determine the need for, and to develop specific training courses for’, tradesstaff, technicians, and managers. Through its growing University Affiliate network, IHEEM was also keen to expand its research in the healthcare built environment, in developing and supporting research and dissertation opportunities for undergraduates, for instance ‘by connecting students’ with HEFMA and IHEEM collaborative Affiliate Member Trusts and hospitals willing to participate and support student research projects. He said: “IHEEM is committed to working with our academic and industry partners, to develop new, innovative products and services that can be embedded into improving how we manage and develop our healthcare estate.”
A good example was an ongoing collaborative partnership research programme ‘to explore how the application of Artificial Intelligence can be used to support a Platform Approach for the Design, Manufacture, and Assembly, of future designs of our core healthcare functions and buildings, leading towards a mass customisation delivery model in the future’. IHEEM is taking this work forward in conjunction with the University of Huddersfield, Stephen George and Partners, and MAC Consultants, one of the sponsors of the Westminster event.
Much-needed estates guidance As part of its commitment to directly supporting its members and the wider healthcare industry, the Institute would also be creating a new entity, ‘IHEEM Publishing’, in partnership with Archus, to directly produce ‘much-needed’ healthcare technical estates guidance for members, practitioners, and industry professionals, with the first publications expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2020.
Supporting existing partner organisations
In August, Ian Hinitt explained – turning to the fourth of the ‘Five key Themes’ – ‘Supporting existing partner organisations’ – he had responded to an invitation from The Royal Academy of Engineering’s National Policy Centre for IHEEM to be included with other Engineering Institutes as a Partner and stakeholder in the development and implementation of national policies on ‘five core areas’, of Skills, Innovation, Digital, Infrastructure and Energy, and Climate Change. He would, he said, be recommending to Council that these five subjects underpinned IHEEM’s next Five Year Strategy, from 2021– 2026.
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