using the calderdale framework to effectively develop and
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Using The Calderdale Framework to
Effectively Develop and Integrate
Assistant Practitioners in Practice
Jayne Duffy
Rachael Smith
Jane Priestley
HSJ Awards 2011
Why Assistant Practitioners ? ….
Times are changing!
The workforce MUST adapt……
• Increased demand on services
• Reduced supply of workforce
• Financial challenges!!
“Problems” of the past with AP Role...
• Gaps in planning & support of
AP roles clinically
• Gap in Education provision
• Gap in Professional
acceptance
• Gap in “Standardisation”
• Gap in utilisation
(Spilsbury 2009,Benson & Smith 2007,
Nancarrow 2005, MacKinnon 2009)
What we did differently….1
Awareness
Raising 2 Service
Analysis
3Task
Analysis
4Competency
Identification
5Supporting
Systems
6Training
7Sustaining
7 Stages to Successful
Implementation
How it worked…….
• Calderdale Framework
reduced the workplace gaps
• Partnership with University of
Bradford reduced educational
gaps
(Smith & Duffy 2010, WYLLN 2011)
What We Got……
• Clinically designed AP roles
• Professional acceptance
• Service specific work based competencies and training
• Workplace set up to support new roles
• Service led education provision secured
(Modernising AHP careers, DH 2010,
NHS Employers Briefing 75, 2010)
University of Bradford as Partners….
.
Credit for competence
achieved through:
• Collaborative curriculum
development
• Comprehensive consultation
with all stakeholders
University of Bradford as Partners…
Key features:
• APEL of individual and packages of learning
• Flexible framework of generic learning with specialist units
• Model of responding quickly to emerging service needs
So What!?.....Locally
• AP’s recruited
• AP’s and aspiring AP’s enrolled onto Cert HE
• AP’s making a difference in practice
• AP’s a key strand of Directorate Workforce Modernisation Strategy
So What!?.. Regionally
• Agreement around AP scope
• Ongoing network around workforce development
• Culture shift in HE to accredit work based learning and meet
employer needs.
• Shift to embed Calderdale Framework methodology
After the Ice Age … the future!
• Enhanced career pathways
• Flexible workforce
• Dissemination and growth
‘Effective Workforce
Programme’
• Plans to further evaluate
(Nationally and Internationally)
Workforce EVOLUTION!!
Contacts
• Jayne Duffy
• Rachael Smith
• Jane Priestley