NHS and ASSIST – Assessment / Development of health informatics staff using NHS KSF and IT industry skills framework Chester 12th May 2006

Project introduction  Initiated from UK-Wide ETD group  Is 1 st of home countries to get started  Derived from untested assumptions about capacity, retention & recruitment issues  About 9 months in the specification stage  Finally initiated with the support of ASSIST  Linked to other Health Informatics National Occupational Standards Review activity

Pilot Purpose  An opportunity for employers to focus on how to best and most completely to define the skills (competency) requirements for ICT staff  Help to understand how the NHS KSF (underpinned by NOS) can be used when many staff not just ICT staff have other professional frameworks with registration and CPD requirements  Help employees to focus and define their development requirements

Pilot Objectives  To validate an update of Health Informatics National Occupational Standards (HI NOS)  To test the validity of SFIA in supporting the development of NHS KSF Outlines for ICT roles identifying specifically:  areas of good fit  areas of poor fit  ambiguities/inconsistencies.  To test applicability of the InfoBasis Ltd tool when used by NHS organisations to develop staff according to the skills requirement:  areas of good fit  areas of poor fit  ambiguities/inconsistencies

What underpinning knowledge is used?  Health Informatics National Occupational Standards  Agenda for Change – job descriptions, national job profiles, NHS KSF & KSF Outlines &  SFIA  HI roles  Teams/structure/relationships  On-line tools

Health Informatics National Occupational Standards (NOS) are the Building blocks - Enablers of change

Health Informatics National Occupational Standards DfES Skills Strategy – 3 parts

Health Informatics Functional Map and National Occupational Standards (NOS) Final Draft – May Units: a mix of those taken from other sectors & New ‘health informatics’ Units e.g.– HI 3 Manage Information Risk, HI 8 Promote an Information Culture, Units for Patient Administration & Records, Teaching and Learning, ICT and the suite covers all areas of Health Informatics Most recently developed NOS are Clinical informatics units developed March 2005 NOS are reviewed and maintained by the Skills Sector Council, Skills for Health in collaboration with professional champions and employer

NHS KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FRAMEWORK NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS National standards / comps: REGULATORY BODY COMPETENCES LOCAL COMPETENCES Relationship between the NHS KSF and other competences It is intended the Local competences eventually disappear

HI NOS which underpin IK dimensions

Agenda for Change – national job profiles  ICT and IM National Job Profiles ICT and IM National Job Profiles  NHS KSF NHS KSF  KSF Outlines – sample IT EngineerIT Engineer  KSF dimensions & their mapping to HI NOS KSF dimensions & their mapping to HI NOS  Skills for the Information Age Skills for the Information Age

Lead contacts:  Information Centre - Pam Hughes  InfoBasis - Chris Fitzpatrick  ASSIST – Andrew Haw

What will be done

Other review activity  Rationalisation of the 1900 NOS in the Skills for Health Database  HI suite led by the Information Centre, and a technical consultant  Similar NOS grouped, re-worded, re-formatted, re- structured, and re-numbered  Skills for Health Skills for Health  Completion 30 th June  Quality assurance – National Reference Group

How to get involved with HI NOS standards review and deployment?  Contact Pam  Mob  Join ASSIST  Browse the relevant web pages  Network with others  Attend relevant national/local events such as these

Useful links  the NHS KSF integrated on line tool  Health informatics community  Information Centre & HI NOS and Review documents for rationalisation activity for comment  Health Informatics National Occupational Standards and qualifications  New ASSIST web pages