helllllllo there, Im back.
Sadly not much to report,
we have tried to look at all levels of setting this up. From a regional solution to just employing our own. As background there is a recognised shortage coming up in the coming years, with a lot of people due to retire out of the system at roughly the same time. This is equated to the fact that a lot of departments where set up with people all of the same age group in the late 60,s to early 70,s.
There isnt a lot of bods ot there to bring in that would be up and running so to speak in a short time period. So being from an industrial background myself I thought the best way was the good olde apprenticeships.
Again sadly,
there doesnt seem to be a demand for training centres to set up a scheme, "kids only want to be nurses, drs, or it&m bods if they have to work in the NHS",
given the option most would choose not to work in NHS at all.
Sadly I personaly tend to think that good old Mrs T did a really smart job of disbanding the afore mentioned systems of training and replacing them with training schemes to get bods off the dole.
And they havent really been replaced. Therefore it looks like we could be going it on our own with a trust aprenticeship and our own training schedule, instead of a proper MED ENG APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME.
Hopefully the coming of A4C and SRCT will tie down the future of the trade and things like have happened to other SR groups will be brought in to retain the staff we have and train "properly" the new ones we get, with a view to holding on to them. Instead of training them and having them move on.
Dont quite know what we will do about the fact that kids dont want to work on maintenance anymore, I was always brought up to think we would be the last out of the factory if it shut down, because the bosses would always want the equipment maintained or stripped down properly.
Anyway Ive had me little rant.
