Specialist healthcare training centre, Eastwood Park, says its recent awarding of a £475,000 grant from the Local Enterprise Partnership and the West of England ‘Going for Growth’ fund will assist it both in safeguarding existing jobs, and creating a number of new roles.
As part of a major redevelopment project at its Falfield, South Gloucestershire site, where it plans to build a new training centre that it claims will be the world’s only one of its kind.
Having recently received planning approval (HEJ – October 2013), the facility will replace many of the individual specialist training buildings that currently house replica hospital training environments on the 200-acre estate, bringing the facilities together in one purpose-built building.
Eastwood Park, says ‘having the funding firmly in place’ will enable it to equip and staff the centre ‘much sooner than otherwise would have been possible’. Once fully operational, the new centre is expected to generate 11 new jobs – from specialist engineers, training administrators, and managers, to catering assistants
