An Introduction to the Support available to Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals across the Career Framework for Health

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An Introduction to the Support available to
Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
across the Career Framework for Health
NHS Education for Scotland

• June 2012

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Post-Registration Career Development Framework
(2012)

• Post-registration Career Development Framework is
  a NEW interactive professional development tool
  which maps the key knowledge, skills and
  behaviours which practitioners need to progress
  through or up a level.
• http//www.careerframework.nes.scot.nhs.uk/

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The NES strategy to support Scotland's nurses and
midwives from 2011 to 2014 is by

• supporting changing workforce needs
• promoting excellence in pre-registration
  education
• strengthening education where nurses and midwives
  practise
• building their research capacity and capability
• ensuring responsive education to meet specific
  clinical priorities
• embedding and sustaining educational solutions in
  partnership with stakeholders

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The NES strategy to support Scotland's allied
health professionals from 2011 to 2014 is by

• Theme 1 Supporting the changing needs of the AHP
  Workforce
• Theme 2 Making communication even better
• Theme 3 Supporting AHPs to use educational
  solutions in their work
• Theme 4 Making the most of the NES AHP Teams
  potential

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Frameworks which support Careers

• The Career Framework for Health
• Post Registration Career Development Framework
  for NMAHPs
• The Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework
  (SCQF)
• Knowledge and Skills Framework and Agenda for
  Change

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C A R E E R F R A M E W O R K for H E A L T H
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Learning and Development activity across NMAHP

• Healthcare Support Workers
• Flying Start NHS
• Early Clinical Career Fellowships
• Effective Practitioner
• NMAHP Senior Frameworks
• Advanced Practice
• AHP Careers Fellowship Scheme
• Clinical Academic Research / Clinical Education
  Careers
• Practice Education Supporting Infrastructure
• Professional ePortfolio / Nursing and Midwifery
  Career long ePortfolio

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Healthcare Support Workers (HCSW)

• Support for NMAHP support workers at Career
  Framework for Health levels 2-4 includes
• A Guide to Healthcare Support Worker Education
  and Role Development
• An online set of resources to support mentors,
  managers and educators - HCSW Toolkit
• Literature Review
• Learning Framework to support Mandatory Induction
  Standards and Codes
• Survey of learning profiles and preferences (May
  2011)

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http//www.hcswtoolkit.nes.scot.nhs.uk
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Priorities for NES HCSW team

• During 2011/12 NES have committed to
• Finding out more about the priorities for
  developing new roles and upskilling existing
  staff by conducting further qualitative research
• Sharing learning and intelligence regarding role
  development across the NMAHP community
• Supporting healthcare support worker role
  development directly through AHP Career
  Fellowships, Assistant Practitioner Working
  Group, NHS Board projects and connections to
  research and practice across the UK

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Web-based learning programme for Nurses, Midwives
and Allied Health Professionals

• Designed to be completed within the first year in
  practice
• Learner directed
• Provides a supportive, guiding learning
  environment
• Most successfully undertaken with the support of
  a mentor
• Easily followed with downloadable learner guides
  and useful web links
• Open to all healthcare settings for NMAHPs

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The Learning Programme

• 10 Learning Units make up the development
  programme
• Each has an aim and learning outcomes
• Each sub-section contains learning activities
• All activities linked to NHS KSF

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Making it work together
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Early Clinical Career Fellowships (ECCF)

• The Early Clinical Career Fellowships are an
  opportunity for highly enthusiastic, talented
  and motivated nurses and midwives to develop
  personally, professionally and academically at an
  early stage in their career.
• 3 year fellowships with funded study leave.
• Pre-requisite - Completion of Flying Start NHS
• Part-time funded Masters
• Action Learning Sets
• Masterclasses
• Mentoring / Clinical Coaching
• 2007-2010/1 Cohort 1 Pilot n 49
• 2008-2011/2 Cohort 2 Pilot n 50
• 2011-2014 ECCF 2011 n 20
• 2012-2015 ECCF 2012 n up to 20

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Effective Practitioner

• A national initiative providing work-based
  learning resources and support for
• Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
  across NHS Scotland.
• Assists practitioners and senior practitioners to
  meet the Quality Ambitions for
• NHS Scotland through the delivery of safe,
  effective and person-centred care
• Makes it easy for you to keep up to date
• Saves time by directing you to helpful learning
  resources
• Helps you to provide evidence for KSF, PDP and
  maintaining professional registration

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Effective Practitioner Home page
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Effective Practitioner Example Learning Resources
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Senior AHP Education and Development Framework

• A national initiative supporting the learning and
  development of Senior AHPs or those aspiring to
  take on this role.
• Senior AHPs are defined as those with
  responsibility for leading and managing services
  and/or teams
• Senior AHPs work at level 6 on The Career
  Framework for Health

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Leading Better Practice - Senior AHP Education
and Development Framework

• The Framework identifies 13 capabilities Senior
  AHPs should be
• demonstrating within the following 4 domains
• Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice
• Enhancing the patient/client/carer experience
• Managing and developing the performance of the
  team
• Contributing to the delivery of the
  organisations objectives

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Leading Better Practice - Senior AHP Education
and Development Framework

• Purpose
• Senior AHPs
• Plan their own learning and development
  (development needs assessment tool)
• Support progression laterally and vertically
  within the Career framework
• NHS Boards, organisations and Managers
• Encourage self development of Senior AHPs
• Support development of current and future Senior
  AHPs as part of succession planning
• Identify appropriate learning opportunities for
  individuals

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Leading Better Practice - Senior AHP Education
and Development Framework

• Website provides a range of resources to support
  Senior AHP development
• Within each of the domains. Resources include
• Learning activities
• Generic and AHP profession specific resources
• Learning and development programmes
• Sharing stories from practice

http//www.seniorahp.nes.scot.nhs.uk
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Senior Charge Nurse Framework Leading Better
Care

• Leading Better Care establishes a national role
  framework for senior
• charge nurses (SCNs) working in hospital settings
  across NHS Scotland.
• The revised SCN role clearly defines a number of
  key roles, which include
• ensuring that SCNs are visible and accessible to
  patients and their carers.
• It also empowers SCNs to be clinical leaders and
  guardians of safety and
• quality in their area.
• The SCN role consists of 4 key areas
• Enhancing patients experience
• Managing and developing the performance of the
  team
• Contributing to the delivery of the organisations
  objectives
• Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice

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Advanced Practice Nursing Toolkit

A UK wide repository for consistent, credible and
helpful resources relating to advanced practice. 
Supports understanding of the advanced practice
role Benchmarks the advanced practice level of
practice Applies to specific roles across
clinical practice, research, education and
leadership.
http//www.advancedpractice.scot.nhs.uk
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AHP Advanced Practice Education and Development
Framework(Musculoskeletal)

• A national initiative supporting the development
  of AHPs working at advanced practice level
  involved in the delivery of MSK services and
  those aspiring to this role
• Advanced practitioners are experienced
  professionals who have developed their skills and
  theoretical knowledge to a very high level which
  is supported by evidence. They perform a highly
  complex role and continually develop practice.
• Advanced practitioners work at level 7 on the
  Career Framework for Health

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AHP Advanced Practice Education and Development
Framework(Musculoskeletal)

• The framework provides national guidance on
  capabilities expected to undertake this role
  within the following pillars of practice
• Clinical
• Leadership
• Facilitation of learning
• Research and Evaluation
• The framework identifies what the roles,
  responsibilities, knowledge and skills are and
  what learning and development opportunities are
  available

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AHP Advanced Practice Education and Development
Framework(Musculoskeletal)

• Purpose
• Advanced practitioners
• Plan their own learning and development (
  development needs assessment tool)
• Support progression laterally and vertically
  within the career framework
• NHS Boards and Managers
• Support development of Advanced practitioners and
  succession planning of the AP workforce
• Provides guidance to assist in developing PDPs
  and making a case for educational opportunities
  for staff
• Education providers
• Inform strategic development of learning
  opportunities

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AHP Advanced Practice Education and Development
Framework(Musculoskeletal)

• Website provides a range of resources to support
  Advanced Practitioner
• development
• Learning activities
• Profession specific resources
• Signposting to relevant formal educational
  solutions, learning resources and reference
  materials
• Sharing of best practice across the professions
  and health boards
• http//www.ahpadvancedpractice.nes.scot.nhs.uk

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AHP Careers Fellowship Scheme

• The AHP Career Fellowship Scheme exists to
  support learning and development opportunities
  for the benefit of the AHP workforce across
  NHSScotland.
• The Schemes career framework levels priority
  areas for funding in 2010 to 2013 are AHP
  Healthcare Support Workers and Assistant
  Practitioners.
• AHP Careers Fellowship Scheme produces a
  quarterly newsletter which can be downloaded from
  the NES website
• http//www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/
  by-discipline/allied-health-professions/career-fel
  lowship-scheme.aspx

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Clinical Academic Research Careers
National guidance has been created to support the
development of NMAHP Clinical Academic Research
Careers (CARC). This approach aims to provide a
consistent and sustainable structure to guide
clinical research collaborations and
role development. http//www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/edu
cation-and-training/by-discipline/nursing-and-midw
ifery/managers- and-educators/clinical-academic-re
search-careers.aspx
Clinical Education Careers A framework for
Clinical Education Careers for Nurses in Scotland
has been developed to enhance clinical education
career opportunities and positively contribute to
staff development, retention and the practice
education experience of all staff.  http//www.ne
s.scot.nhs.uk/media/5840/Clinical-Education-Career
-Framework.pdf
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Practice Education Infrastructure

• The infrastructure for Practice Education within
  NHS Boards includes
• mentors, supervisors, clinical educators and
  practice development staff.
• This is supported by a national network of
  funded
• Nursing and Midwifery Practice Education
  Facilitators
• Nursing and Midwifery Practice Educators
• AHPs Practice Education Leads

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AHPs have Portfolios through their professional
organisations
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NHS Education for Scotland
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Thank you

• More information is available through the NES
  website at http//www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/
• This presentation will be regularly updated