Welcome to Cumbria Health Ltd. (CHL) Learning and Development page

Cumbria Health is committed to ensuring that every one of us is valued, respected, listened to and supported to reach our full potential. CHL will provide the right conditions for your ongoing development to ensure you are provided with the right support and guidance throughout your career with Cumbria Health.

CHL promotes achievement through appraisal, effectiveness in probation, building capability into a role, maintaining competence in existing responsibilities. As well as supporting professional revalidation, and growing talent in readiness for transition.

My name is Mark and I'm our Workforce Development Lead and part of Cumbria Health Learning and Development (LD) team. Like others in our LD team, I have qualifications and experience in education and training to support effectively and with quality, our staff development.

As part of the LD team, we offer education and training from entry level to master's level qualifications including continued professional development. We also work for and with a number of UK University's as Lecturers to support medical and nursing, postgraduate and graduate programmes. Our delivery team are all registered and practicing nurses and doctors.

In my view, Cumbria Health provides gold standard education and training by subject experts, which is a real time benefit for staff. 

If you are an employee and want to know what is on offer for you right now, please look to our intranet LD page or for personal development advice, please contact the Workforce team.

If you are a not an employee and interested in our LD offer, please contact our Workforce team for more information.

I feel at home on the Alston fells with the Helm wind, and at peace running the West Cumbrian coastline with my spaniel, Boris. Working at Cumbria Health has given me the flexibility to be fully present with my family, from first days at school to sports days.

I’ve been with Cumbria Health since 2014, starting as a GP Registrar at CHoC in Workington. I was drawn to urgent care, the variety, the pace, and the privilege of helping patients when they need it most. The warmth of Cumbrian communities and the strong team bonds here make this work incredibly rewarding.

Now, ten years on, I wear many hats, GP, educator, auditor, and governance lead. I contribute to monthly clinical audits, sit on the CH Clinical Governance and Policy Review Group, and the Northern Academic GP Teacher Advisory Group. I also chair the ICB Health and Wellbeing Workforce Strand and lecture at the University of Central Lancashire.

Mentoring and education are close to my heart. I help lead training for ACPs and GPs in training, and recently helped establish the first GP out-of-hours training placement, now formally recognised by the Deanery. I also support CH’s clinical education events and have recently launched a workforce Balint Group, all are welcome!

As a Social Enterprise organisation, we promote continued professional development (CPD) throughout our workforce and offer opportunities for staff to undertake training and development, with both internal and external training providers.