Creating a Seamless Interface to Link the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) with Totara

The Electronic Staff Record (ESR) is an integrated HR and payroll system procured nationally by the UK government and is free to use for all NHS organisations.

Chambury Learning Solutions have worked with the NHS Improvement and ESR Teams to create an interface designed to transfer learning completions bi-directionally between the NHS ESR and Totara.The link provides a series of benefits and time and cost savings for NHS Trusts who use Totara. The link:

• Ensures that staff are not repeating unnecessary training which saves resources but also ensures that compliance/patient safety is maintained
• Maintains and updates Totara Certifications upon completion of ESR Competency Achievements
• Updates Totara profile fields with ESR data and promotes to permanent user accounts once hired
• Enables inbound and outbound one-to-one and one-to-manyrelationship mappings between ESR Competences and Totara Certifications

Join us for a webinar in which we’ll go behind the scenes with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and York & Scarborough Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust to understand how the interface has been developed. We’ll also learn how the interface is helping these organisations daily. Speakers 

Rob Bloor

LMS Manager, York & Scarbrough Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.Rob has been in delivering  Learning and Development IT based training solutions for over 37 years, 19 of these working for the NHS.  He has implemented and managed various Learning Management Systems during this period, with Totara being deployed in Sheffield 7 years ago.  The Trust has signed up for the Core Skills Training Framework and is a Lead Trust for doctors in training around the South Yorkshire region.  It also provides South Yorkshire Regional Services i.e. Cardiac & Thoracic, Renal and Vascular. 

Steph Wild

LMS Manager, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSteph’s background is in the NHS where she has worked for 35 years, the last 23 years’ being in learning and development. She has delivered training, developed training programmes for large groups of staff and managed organisation wide programmes of learning. She has also successfully managed the implementation of an organisation-wide learning management system (Totara Learn) which has transformed how and where staff undertake learning as well as providing transparent compliancy monitoring. She has since expanded the use of this system to record appraisal completions and areas where staff can develop their skills to improve their career prospects.

Richard ChamburyManaging Director Chambury LearningRichard Chambury has over 18 years experience in learning and development experience spanning teaching, learning strategy, learning content design & delivery, HR & systems project management, system design & implementation, end user training, training management including core mandatory training and more. This included management of a training department in a large NHS Trust, lecturing in adult education (FE) and managing learning systems in the Public Sector including health, social care, county councils and more. Chambury Learning Solutions work with some of the largest healthcare providers in the UK, both in the public [NHS] and private sectors.