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Enhancing Health Informatics Workforce Skills in the NHS

This project aims to develop health informatics staff using NHS KSF and IT industry skills framework. It focuses on defining competency requirements, utilizing NHS KSF, and testing the validity of SFIA. The initiative aligns with Health Informatics National Occupational Standards, supporting staff development to meet evolving healthcare technology needs.

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Enhancing Health Informatics Workforce Skills in the NHS

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

  2. Project introduction • Initiated from UK-Wide ETD group • Is 1st 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

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

  7. Health Informatics National Occupational Standards DfES Skills Strategy – 3 parts

  8. HealthInformatics Functional Map and National Occupational Standards (NOS) • Final Draft – May 2004 • 127 Units: a mix of those taken from other sectors • & New ‘health informatics’ Units e.g.– • HI 3Manage 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

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

  10. HI NOS which underpin IK dimensions

  11. HI NOS which underpin IK dimensions

  12. HI NOS which underpin IK dimensions

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

  14. Lead contacts: • Information Centre - Pam Hughes 0787 989 8070 pam.hughes@ic.nhs.uk • InfoBasis - Chris Fitzpatrick 07920 532311 chrisf@infobasis.com • ASSIST – Andrew Haw 0121 627 2335 andrew.haw@uhb.nhs.uk

  15. What will be done

  16. 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 • Completion 30th June 2006. • Quality assurance – National Reference Group

  17. How to get involved with HI NOS standards review and deployment? • Contact Pam pam.hughes@ic.nhs.uk • Mob 0787 989 8070 • Join ASSIST • Browse the relevant web pages • Network with others • Attend relevant national/local events such as these

  18. Useful links • http://www.e-KSF.org the NHS KSF integrated on line tool • http://www.informatics.nhs.uk Health informatics community • http://www.ic.nhs.uk/informatics Information Centre http://www.hinos.org.uk & www.hinos-review.org.uk HI NOS and Review documents for rationalisation activity for comment • http://www.hiqualificationsfinder.org.uk Health Informatics National Occupational Standards and qualifications • www.bcs.org/assist New ASSIST web pages

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