We have pulled together a quick guide to five of our most popular workforce development tools and resources, designed to improve healthcare, raise quality and improve productivity and financial performance.
1. Integrating health and social care
Improvements in joined-up care for people with complex needs require workforce change.
- Patient centred integrated care
- End of life care – (free training pack)
- Carers matter
- Common core principles - working with carers
- Common core principles - self-care
- My Health Skills – (online networking site for workforce development)
- Working together: a summary of health and social care integration projects
- Case studies
2. Care certificate
Materials and resources supporting the ongoing development of the healthcare support workforce.
- Materials and workbooks
- Code of conduct
- Skills for Health e-learning (clinical/care suite and care certificate)
- Quality mark
- Clinical/care core skills training framework (coming soon). selected clinical/care and statutory/mandatory subjects will together support the design and delivery of training to enable achievement of care certificate standards.
3. Dementia
Underpinning knowledge and resources to help you deliver high quality, person-centred care to people living with dementia and their families.
- Stand by Me (free e-learning course available)
- Dementia core skills training framework (CSTF) - currently in final stages of development
- Once completed the dementia CSTF will be available from the main core skills training framework web page.
- Dementia skills group (via My Health Skills)
- Common core principles for supporting people with dementia
4. Design, develop and employing the workforce
Tools to help you achieve the right workforce in the right place with the right skills.
- 6 steps methodology - integrated workforce planning
- Sector employability toolkit
- Core skills training framework
- Health sector pre-employment programme
- Role re-design
- Career framework
- Skills for Health e-learning
- Employability skills matrix
- Case studies
5. Competences and tools
National occupational standards (competences) are a quality assured way of describing the knowledge and skills required by the workforce. Use these tools to design, and develop and analyse the workforce you require.
If you would like to find out more about how Skills for Health can help support you and your organisation in your workforce development strategy, please visit our website or contact your regional director to arrange a meeting.
Content on this page is produced and paid for by Skills for Health, sponsor of the Guardian Healthcare Professionals Network’s workforce development hub
