Skills for Health Session: Sector Skills Council Role & Tools Demo

1. Allied Health ProfessionScotland • Lynne Lewis • Skills for Health

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. National Workforce Competences • Descriptors of the performance criteria, knowledge and understanding that are required to perform work activities: • Outcome based • Activity based i.e. about the function being performed – not the person performing it e.g. obtain a venous blood sample • Patient Centred • Nationally (UK) agreed • The basis of National Occupational Standards

8. Use of Competences • Workforce design • Recruitment and selection • Induction • Appraisal • Personal & Team development • Education & training design • Career development • Succession planning

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Exercise – Create folders and lists • Handouts – exercise 1. Create folders and lists.

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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.”

19. 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.”

20. 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

21. Contact Details • Lorna Hunter • Lead Manager for Scotland • 07826950614 • Lorna.hunter@skillsforhealth.org.uk • Lynne Lewis • Manager for Wales • 07810505646 • 01691 831657 • Lynne.lewis@skillsforhealth.org.uk