Learning agreement

Signed at Gate 0.

Parties

What we agree

1. The person stays in their current band and UK GDaD PCF role. This programme does not change band, role, or pay.

2. Gates are developmental. A gate result never starts a capability, performance, or conduct procedure by itself.

3. Protected time: 308 learning hours (368 for the Band 3 and Band 4 extension), including 40 hours for the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, by default 7.5 hours a week. Agreed pace: ______ hours a week, on these days: ______. It is in the person's calendar. It is not reassigned to delivery work without the training lead's agreement.

4. Mentor time: 1.5 hours per 7.5 learning hours for hours 88–133, then 1 hour per 7.5 learning hours (about 27 hours in all).

5. Gate dates:

   Gate	Date
   Gate 0
   Gate 1 (hour 133)
   Gate 2 (hour 178)
   Gate 3 (hour 215.5)
   Gate 4 (hour 268)
   Gate 5 (follow-up, about six months after Gate 4)

6. Self-assessment: the person completes the full capability self-assessment honestly, with evidence, at every gate. The line manager rates independently. Both meet to calibrate.

7. Safety and governance: the person uses synthetic data only, never real patient data, and never puts secrets in source control.

8. AI assistants: the person may use them, and must be able to explain every line they submit.

9. Reasonable adjustments: as recorded in the individual learning plan, and reviewed at every gate.

10. Escalation: if more than 7.5 hours of protected time are lost and not rescheduled within the same gate period, the training lead raises it with the line manager.

Signatures

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