NHS Education for Scotland
An Introduction to the Support available to
Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
across the Career Framework for Health
June 2012
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Post-Registration Career Development
Framework (2012)
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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
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supporting changing workforce needs
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promoting excellence in pre-registration education
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strengthening education where nurses and midwives practise
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building their research capacity and capability
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ensuring responsive education to meet specific clinical priorities
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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
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Frameworks which support Careers
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The Career Framework for Health
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Post Registration Career Development Framework for NMAHPs
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The Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework (SCQF)
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Knowledge and Skills Framework and Agenda for Change
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Learning and Development activity across
NMAHP
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Healthcare Support Workers
Flying Start NHS®
Early Clinical Career Fellowships
Effective Practitioner
NMAHP Senior Frameworks
Advanced Practice
AHP Careers Fellowship Scheme
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Clinical Academic Research / Clinical Education Careers
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Practice Education Supporting Infrastructure
Professional ePortfolio / Nursing and Midwifery Career long ePortfolio
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Healthcare Support Workers (HCSW)
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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
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During 2011/12 NES have committed to:
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Finding out more about the priorities for developing new roles and
upskilling existing staff by conducting further qualitative research
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Sharing learning and intelligence regarding role development across
the NMAHP community
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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
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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
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10 Learning Units make
up the development
programme
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Each has an aim and
learning outcomes
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Each sub-section
contains learning
activities
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All activities linked to
NHS KSF
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Making it work together
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Early Clinical Career Fellowships (ECCF)
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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.
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Pre-requisite - Completion of Flying Start NHS®
Part-time funded Masters
Action Learning Sets
Masterclasses
Mentoring / Clinical Coaching
2007-2010/1
2008-2011/2
2011-2014
2012-2015
Cohort 1 Pilot n = 49
Cohort 2 Pilot n = 50
ECCF 2011 n = 20
ECCF 2012 n = up to 20
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Effective Practitioner
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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
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• 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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Example Learning Resources
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Senior AHP Education and Development
Framework
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• 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:
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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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Leading Better Practice - Senior AHP
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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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Leading Better Practice - Senior AHP Education
and Development Framework
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Website provides a range of resources to support Senior AHP development
Within each of the domains. Resources include:
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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
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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:
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
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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)
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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
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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.
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Advanced practitioners work at level 7 on the Career Framework for
Health
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AHP Advanced Practice Education and
Development Framework
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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
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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
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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
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Website provides a range of resources to support Advanced Practitioner
development:
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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
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The AHP Career Fellowship Scheme exists to support learning and
development opportunities for the benefit of the AHP workforce across
NHSScotland.
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The Scheme’s career framework levels priority areas for funding in
2010 to 2013 are AHP Healthcare Support Workers and Assistant
Practitioners.
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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/alliedhealth-professions/career-fellowship-scheme.aspx
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Clinical Academic Research Careers
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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/education-and-training/by-discipline/nursing-and-midwifery/managersand-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
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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
– AHP’s Practice Education Leads
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AHPs have Portfolios through their professional
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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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