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Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland

Allied Health ProfessionScotland

Lynne Lewis

Skills for Health


Aims of the session

To inform delegates of the role and remit of the Sector Skills Council.

To demonstrate the range of competence application tools available on the web site.


Agenda

• Role of Skills for Health • Sector Qualification Strategy• Competences• Skills for Health Tools Demonstration• Exercise – Create folders and lists• KSF search- Demonstration• Exercise – Create a Competence Based Role Profile• Exercise – Create a Competence Based Team Profile• Exercise - Perform a team assessment


Role of Skills for Health

Formed with the backing of the four UK health departments, independent health sector, voluntary organisations and staff associations.

Licensed in 2004 as the Sector Skills Council for Health by the Sector Skills Development Agency under the Department for Education and Skills, now the UK Commission for Employment & Skills.

One of 25 SSC’s licensed by UK Commission for Employment and Skills


Remit of Skills for Health

• Develop and manage national occupational standards

• Profile the UK workforce• Identify and articulate sector workforce needs• Improve workforce skills• Influence education and training supply• Work closely with health sector employers and our

stakeholders


Sector Qualification Strategy

• Requirement of UK Commission for Education and Skills

• Strategy to develop qualifications that meet sector needs- review, rationalize, improve

• Responds to changes in policy, priorities and strategies

• Vision offering skills that employers want and learners need to secure and maintain employment


National Workforce Competences

Descriptors of the performance criteria, knowledge and understanding that are required to perform work activities:Outcome basedActivity based i.e. about the function being

performed – not the person performing it e.g. obtain a venous blood sample

Patient CentredNationally (UK) agreed The basis of National Occupational Standards


Use of Competences

• Workforce design• Recruitment and selection• Induction• Appraisal• Personal & Team development• Education & training design• Career development• Succession planning


Who can use competences

Employers: Assist with designing, planning and developing your workforce. Create Role and team profiles to perform skills mix and team assessments leading to training needs analysis and succession planning

Employees: Compile a list of the competences you already have and to identify which you need to gain for your personal and professional development. Assist with NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Awarding bodies/ Education and training providers: Design learning programmes around clusters of competences to create qualifications at a variety of levels for the entire health sector workforce.


Skills for Health Tools- demonstration and overview

• My Lists• The Competence search tool• Career Framework tool• The NHS KSF mapping tool• The Health Functional Map tool• The assessment tools• Self assessment• Team assessment


SfH Tools -Use of Tools

• Individual, team or service design• Team and organisational development• Appraisal and personal development• Work based assessment of competences• Performance management• Recruitment and selection• Induction planning• Career planning and management• Training and development programmes• Development of a skills audit


SfH Tools-What can tools enable you to do?

• Create and save lists of competences• Add, copy, move and delete competences• Create folders for storing your lists• Move lists around your folders• Send lists and folders to other people• Create job descriptions• Print your lists• Export your lists to word


My Lists

Store unique collection of competences for any purpose e.g. Competence lists relating to role/team profiles.

Note: This replaces the original role profile, learning profile and competence cluster tools previously available


Exercise – Create folders and lists

Handouts – exercise 1. Create folders and lists.


The Knowledge and Skills Framework Competence mapping tool.

Enables the use of KSF outlines of a specific post to select and find competences that are mapped to post dimensions or levels

Note: Knowledge and Skills Framework links are indicative links


KSF Search - Demonstration

Core. Communication L3

Core. people and personal development L3

Core. Health, Safety and Security. L2

Core. Service Improvement. L2

Core. Quality. L3

Core. Equality. L2

HWB6. Assessment & Treatment Planning. L3

IK2. Information collection & analysis. L2

G6. People Management. L2


Exercise – Create a competence based role profile

Exercise 2 Handout

Three post outlines:

Radiography Team Leader

Head III Occupational Therapist - BGH - Band 7

Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist - Podiatry- Band 7


Exercise – create a competence based team profile

• Create a new folder – name this “Team Profiles.”• Create a new list – name this “AHP team profile 1”

and save this in the folder named “team profiles.”• Search and enter competences that you feel would

be applicable to the AHP team – bearing in mind the patient pathway.

• Save these competences in the list named “AHP team profile 1.”


Exercise – perform a team assessment

• Click on team assessment• Select the “AHP team profile 1” from the drop down

menu• Click on the box beside all three role profiles within

the AHP folder.• Click on “view team assessment as a matrix.”


Uses of Competence lists.

• Moving• Copying• Deleting• Exporting to word• Exporting to word titles only• Creation of a job description• Print titles and summaries• Print all competences


Contact Details

Lorna Hunter

Lead Manager for Scotland

07826950614

[email protected]

Lynne Lewis

Manager for Wales

07810505646

01691 831657

[email protected]

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