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Integrating skills for working differently with long-term conditions: training for a new assistant practitioner role. Alison Hasselder. Context. Developed in the Swan Interprofessional Institute. Partnership working Lifelong Learning Network & Skills For Health Service user care involvement.
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Integrating skills for working differently with long-term conditions: training for a new assistant practitioner role Alison Hasselder
Context • Developed in the Swan Interprofessional Institute. • Partnership working • Lifelong Learning Network & Skills For Health • Service user care involvement
Outline of case study – Foundation degree in long term conditions • How the project came about ? • Who was involved? • How did we work? • What do we hope to achieve now and in the future?
How the project came about • Interest from employers • Courses that crossed professional boundaries • Policy drivers to improve outcomes for people with long term conditions • Integration of health and social care • Promote service user and carer choice and involvement in decisions
Who? • Range of professional disciplines within the Faculty • Supplemented by others from the NHS Trust • Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Social Work, Service users/ Carers • Informed by relevant organisations and interest groups
How? • Steering Group • Curriculum Development Group • Project Manager • Course Committee,Course Management Team Committee, Student Staff Consultation Committee.
Curriculum Development Group • Parallel lines • Creative tension: defence of the realm, timescale • Partnership • Promoting institutional change. • Involvement of carers/service users • Language “People living with long-term conditions and their carers.”
What do we hope to achieve for integrated care? • Cohesive delivery of care • Improved communication • New types of Associate Practitioner • Multidisciplinary working and learning
What do we hope to achieve for students? • Unlock potential • New career structure • Flexible transferable and integrated learning • Learning progression based on competence • Future mentorship development
What do we hope to achieve for employers? • Accrediting and developing learning from the work place • Enable learning progression based on competence and is fit for purpose • Flexible delivery • Help support and develop new career structures. • Help in the retention and recruitment of staff.
Integrated learning for integrated care Teaching and Learning Face to face E Learning Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Portfolio Virtual classrooms Clinical visits User/carer perspectives
What is next? • Preparing students for admission • Deliver the course to a wider audience. • Direct entry route • Progression project. • Flexible learning- on-line study days.
Acknowledgements • Professor Fiona Ross • Mark Martin
Further information Alison Hasselder Course Director Foundation Degree In Long Term Conditions Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences Kingston University & St George’s, University of London Cranmer Terrace LONDON SW17 0RE T: 020 8725 0119 mobile: 07766368982 E: ahasseld@hscs.sgul.ac.uk W: www.healthcare.ac.uk