Alison Hasselder [Course Director, FHSCS]

Alison J. Ludlam [Associate Director of Nursing, NHS Wandsworth]

FDSc. LTC: Creating competent hybrid practitioners to support

people living with long term conditions

Presentation Aim

How the project came about ? Who was involved? How did we work? Course outcomes, curriculum and

construct What do we hope to achieve now and in

the future?

Context

Developed in the Swan Interprofessional Institute.

Partnership working Lifelong Learning Network & Skills For

Health Service user care involvement

How the project came about

Interest from employers Fit for purpose workforce Policy drivers to improve outcomes for

people living with long term conditions Integration of health and social care Promote service user and carer choice

and involvement in decisions Career development and progression for

HCSW to Associate Practitioner

Who?

Project investment from LLN Range of professional disciplines within

the Faculty Further Education Institute NHS Trusts Nursing, Occupational Therapy,

Physiotherapy, Social Work, Service users/ Carers

Informed by relevant organisations and interest groups

How?

Project Manager Steering Group Consultation [3 months] Curriculum Development Group [4

months] Course Committee Course Management Team Committee Student Staff Consultation Committee

Enabling, empowering workforce to support people living with LTC

Unlock potential Improved communication Multidisciplinary working and learning Flexible transferable and integrated learning Learning progression based on competence Accrediting and developing learning from the

work place Fit for purpose hybrid practitioner New career structure

What we hoped to achieve

Curriculum Aims

Knowledge and critical understanding of the complexities of the health and social effects on people living with long term conditions and their carers;

Independent accountable practice, working in partnership with the service user, family and carers and other professionals and agencies within the contextual dynamics of health and social care to enable self-management of long term conditions and maximise independence.

Teachingand

Learning

E Learning

Portfolio

Virtual classrooms

Face to face

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL)

Clinical visits

User/carer perspectives

Course construct

Competencies

3 levels CorePractice basedAspirational

Based on: Consultation outputSkills for Health competencies

Common Core principles to support self care Best practice e.g. NSF, professional body

Formatted in individual Learning Contract

Project Challenges [aka defence of the realm!]

Timescale Patient centric v professional centric Partnerships: Friend or foe? Language: Who’s line is it anyway? Service user involvement: Meaningful or

well meaning? Institutional change: Promotion or

protection? Competences: Conflicts and complexities Marketing and funding: Who will buy?

Programme Challenges [aka development opportunities!]

Course management and evaluation Preparing students for admission Deliver the course to a wider audience. Direct entry route Progression project Flexible learning- on-line study days Funding and buy in Workforce planning a reality

Acknowledgements

Professor Fiona Ross Mark Martin

Alison Hasselder & Alison LudlamFoundation Degree In Long Term ConditionsFaculty of Health and Social Care SciencesKingston University & St George’s, University of

LondonCranmer TerraceLONDON SW17 0RET: 020 8725 0119 mobile: 07766368982E: a.hasselder@sgul.kingston .ac.uk/

aludlam@hscs.sgul.ac.uk W: www.healthcare.ac.uk