Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland Multidisciplinary An Introduction to the Support available to Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals

Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland

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An Introduction to the Support available to Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals

across the Career Framework for Health

June 2012

NHS Education for Scotland


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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 Team’s potential


MultidisciplinaryFrameworks 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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CAREER

FRAMEWORK

for HEALTH


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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


MultidisciplinaryHealthcare 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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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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• 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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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 forNurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals across NHS Scotland.

Assists practitioners and senior practitioners to meet the Quality Ambitions forNHS 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 organisation’s objectives


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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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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 seniorcharge nurses (SCNs) working in hospital settings across NHS Scotland. The revised SCN role clearly defines a number of key roles, which includeensuring that SCNs are visible and accessible to patients and their carers.It also empowers SCNs to be clinical leaders and guardians of safety andquality in their area.

The SCN role consists of 4 key areas:

1. Enhancing patients experience

2. Managing and developing the performance of the team

3. Contributing to the delivery of the organisations objectives

4. 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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(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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(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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(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 Scheme’s 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-fellowship-scheme.aspx


MultidisciplinaryClinical Academic Research Careers

National guidance has been created to support the development of NMAHP ClinicalAcademic Research Careers (CARC). This approach aims to provide a consistentand sustainable structure to guide clinical research collaborations and role

development.

http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/by-discipline/nursing-and-midwifery/managers-and-educators/clinical-academic-research-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.nes.scot.nhs.uk/media/5840/Clinical-Education-Career-Framework.pdf


MultidisciplinaryPractice 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

– AHP’s Practice Education Leads


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AHPs have Portfolios through their professional organisations


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MultidisciplinaryThank you

More information is available through the NES website at http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/

This presentation will be regularly updated

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