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    Sgt Coetzer Teaching Technique
support the vaccine rollout across the southeast. With all staff now back in post Lucknow Plt and the PCRF can push forward with delivering their main output and ensuring the Officer Cadets return to training in a quick and timely manner.
PCRF Army Training Centre Pirbright
SSgt (SSI) M Quinn RAPTC
Having been posted to PCRF Pirbright as the OR7 since Oct 21, I have already seen the challenges all teams are facing trying to turn a young civilian into a fully trained Soldier. One aspect of this crossover is injuries and the inevitability that recruits will get injured during training. Sgt (SI) Ballard has been working hard on educating not only the recruits but the permanent staff on dealing with the stigma attached with coming to Gold Platoon. For his sterling efforts, Sgt Ballard was recognised for his fantastic work with a Corps SM’s Coin.
Also posted into the team is Sgt (SI) Osborn who has joined us from the JSSERI course. Using knowledge and skills that he has developed on course he has already began to complement the team ethos that we have at PCRF Pirbright. As part of the JSSERI course, Sgt Osborne completed the Pre and Post-Natal Instructors (PPNI) course in which he has already been using this skillset on a patient, not one to shy away from an extra responsibility Sgt Osborne has become the Infection Prevention Control (IPC) representative for the PCRF gymnasium.
The last year has been a very busy year for the PCRF with a big change of personnel in the gymnasium but the PCRF would not be in the place it is now if it wasn’t for the hard work of Sgt (SI) McCann and Mr Nathan Cartawick, who both helped to steady the ship in uncertain times.
PCRF Minley
Sgt (SI) G Burton RAPTC
The last year has been a busy year within PCRF Minley, located within the ever-busy 3 RSME, the camp has moved through COVID-19 at speed to ensure the supply of soldiers to the relevant Field Army Units. With this huge requirement a lot of work has been placed on the essentials of ensuring the soldiers under training are fit for task, this responsibility lands on the doors of the gym staff and the rehabilitation team.
One of the biggest concerns we faced was ensuring that these soldiers under training who joined through the pandemic where both physically and mentally fit for their future careers. This gave an amazing opportunity for the PCRF and mainstream gym to work together to find a method that ensured all physical requirements for the Royal Engineers were met, but also that they were physically ready to join their Field Army Units.
A visit to the Household Cavalry
Utilising the tools of the APTS and the experience of myself, WO2 (QMSI) Harden and Sgt (SI) Caine (the mainstream RAPTCIs) we put a lot of emphasis on the mental wellbeing, nutritional education, sleep education, stress management and physical robustness to enable the recruits to better understand themselves.
This approach has, thus far, been highly successful. We have been able to sustain the physical requirements needed to complete training as well as utilising the rehabilitation care pathway for those injured during training to ensure they become injury free and return to training, performing above their previous capability. This was only achievable through the help of all the clinicians involved, the AAPTIs, my fellow RAPTCIs working in conjunction and together to ensure bright futures for all those that had the pleasure of conducting training within 3 RSME.
However, it has not just been all work, as a team we have focused on improving our own clinical understanding, jumping in alongside RRU and PCRF Aldershot for Regional in-service training and CPD sessions. We have also ensured as a team we have made time to develop our own understanding of the wider picture, getting involved with the phase 2 training teams looking at how the engineers work within the Army, historical tours to London and group activities making the team highly effective and a pleasure to work with. 3 RSME is a busy job requiring dedication and time however the benefits are phenomenal, it has been a pleasure to count myself among their team.
PCRF Aldershot
Sgt (SI) A Coetzer RAPTC
Sgt Coetzer has been working with multiple Units within a busy Aldershot Garrison as the only Military ERI in PCRF Aldershot since 2018. Taking patients through their strength, SCR and RFTs build up and providing his rehabilitation expertise to the Units to build on their injury prevention.
Sgt Coetzer arranged a team education day in London to visit the Household Cavalry with his civilian staff to give them a better idea what the Service Personnel have to do in normal guard routine and what they have to be able to get back to after their rehab.
PCRF London Central
Sgt (SI) L Barrigan RAPTC
It’s been a year of changes at PCRF London Central. We started the year with a different practice name, a different team of staff and rehabilitation was almost wholly remote. Fast forward a year and we’ve merged with the medical chain to become PCRF London Central, we have had a new ERI and Physio join the team and we’re now back to face-to-face working.











































































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