Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
Allied Health ProfessionScotland
Lynne Lewis
Skills for Health
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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.
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
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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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
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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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
Use of Competences
• Workforce design• Recruitment and selection• Induction• Appraisal• Personal & Team development• Education & training design• Career development• Succession planning
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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.
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
Exercise – Create folders and lists
Handouts – exercise 1. Create folders and lists.
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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.”
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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.”
Maximising the Potential of the AHP Workforce in NHSScotland
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
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Contact Details
Lorna Hunter
Lead Manager for Scotland
07826950614
Lynne Lewis
Manager for Wales
07810505646
01691 831657