The Career Framework

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• The Career Framework
• nine steps to heaven?

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Overview

• What do the all the letters mean!
• Basic introduction to NOS/NWC, Career framework,
  KSF
• Work competed by ACE so far

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Confused!

• Had that women said that in Swahili I would have
  understood it more!
• Allan Pacey Padnel Grange Sept 2005

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Consultant Director
Consultant Practitioner
Advanced Practitioner
Specialist Practitioner
Practitioner
Associate Practitioner
Senior Assistant
Healthcare Scientist Career Pathway
Assistant 1-2
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Progress

• Achieved by developing skills and attaining
  qualifications.
• This is supported by
• the NOS

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Education
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Training
Competence
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NOS / NWC

• National Occupational Standards (NOS)
• National Workforce Competencies (NWC)

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What is a competency (NOS)

• Defines the
• Knowledge
• Understanding
• Skill
• required to perform a specific task.
• Represent good practice.

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What do the NOS/NWC cover?

• all NHS organisations,
• the private,
• independent and
• voluntary services
• Cover three main areas
• Service delivery
• Management of services
• Commissioning services

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NOS

• Competencies exist as
• Generic
• (common across all disciplines)
• Common
• (relevant to more than one discipline ie
  andrology / embryology)
• Specific

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Generic NOS
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NOS Discipline specific - embryology

• 2001
• Updated by exec / tc representatives Sept 2005
• DH workshop attended where the NOS were signed
  off
• Now published www.skillsforhealth.org.uk

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Clinical Embryology Deliver laboratory services
for assisted conception treatments
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What can competences be used for

• individual development / appraisal
• team development
• role design
• role re-design
• service design e.g. new build/service
• education programme / curriculum design
• evidence gathering for KSF post outlines

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Roles

• A role can be made up by grouping different
  competencies together
• Generic
• Common
• Specific

• Clinical Embryologist

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Roles

• Embryologist performing blood assays

• Embryologist with Andrology duties

Generic Common Embryology Clinical Chemistry
Andrology
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Work completed by ACE

• Workshop
• NOS
• Role descriptors
• Career pathway
• Assessment guidance for NOS

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• Role descriptors
• allocate a role against the career framework
• e.g clinical embryologist

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• Career pathway
• Map which NOS relevant to role
• ?qualifications required for entry and exit
  points

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• 3. Assessment guidance for NOS
• Define how each NOS are to be assessed
• Draft

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Basic KSF

• Knowledge and Skills Framework
• A KSF post outline describes the knowledge and
  skills expected of staff required for a
  particular job
• It provides a framework on which to base review
  and development for all staff

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KSF

• NOS provide an indicative link to the Knowledge
  and Skills Framework (KSF)
• The two systems complement each other.
• Becoming competent in a NOS can be used to as
  evidence as part of an individuals Personal
  Development Plan to support their progression.

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What next

• Skills for health
• Unbundle the NOS for education purposes
• Andrology first draft

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Andrology Occupational Competencies Deliver
Laboratory services for semen analysis,
processing and preservation
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Nine steps to heaven?

• So according to the song, steps to heaven
• Step one, you find a girl to love
• Step two, she falls in love with you
• Step three, you hold her tightly
• ? Should it be
• Step 4 you become an embryologist
• ? Step 5 and above will have to wait and see!

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• Skills for Health