– Assessment / Development of NHS and ASSIST skills framework

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 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
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
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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:
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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:
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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 & www.e-KSF.org
 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 2004
127 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
Relationship between the NHS KSF
and other competences
NHS KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FRAMEWORK
National
standards
/ comps:
NATIONAL
OCCUPATIONAL
STANDARDS
REGULATORY
BODY
COMPETENCES
LOCAL COMPETENCES
It is intended the Local competences eventually disappear
HI NOS which underpin IK dimensions
Information & Knowledge Dimension 1
INFORMATION PROCESSING
Level 1
Input, store and provide data and information
Level 2
Modify, structure, maintain and present data and
information
Level 3
Monitor the processing of data and information
Level 4
Develop and modify data and information
management models and processes
HI 60,64,67
HI 61,62,68,70
HI 52 & HI 69
HI 51, 55
HI NOS which underpin IK dimensions
Information & Knowledge Dimension 2
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Level 1
Collect, collate and report routine and simple
data and information
Level 2
Gather, analyse and report a limited range of
data and information
Level 3
Gather, analyse, interpret and present extensive
and/or complex data and information
Level 4
Plan, develop and evaluate methods and
processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting
and presenting
data and information
None found
HI 53,66,125
PH01.06
HI 54, 57, 58, 72, 126, 127
PH01.00/01/02/03/04 09.00
None found
HI NOS which underpin IK dimensions
Information & Knowledge Dimension 3
KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION RESOURCES
Level 1
Access, appraise and apply knowledge and
information
Level 2
Maintain knowledge and information resources
and help others to access and use them
Level 3
Organise knowledge and information resources
and provide information to meet needs
Level 4
Develop the acquisition, organisation, provision
and use of knowledge and information
None found
HI 71,74,78,79,88
HI 73,75,77,80, 84
HI 76,81,85,85 PH09.02
Agenda for Change – national job profiles
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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
Lead contacts:
 Information Centre - Pam Hughes 0787
989 8070 [email protected]
 InfoBasis - Chris Fitzpatrick 07920
532311 [email protected]
 ASSIST – Andrew Haw 0121 627 2335
[email protected]
What will be done
March/April 2006
Scoping, planning, agreement, recruit sites
3 May 2006
May 2006
July - Sept 2006
Sept 2006
Project kick off meeting with sites
Recruit end users & train site administrators
End users begin their assessments period 180 days
Review progress after summer hols and agree actions for
autumn and project closure
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, restructured, and re-numbered
 Skills for Health
 Completion 30th June 2006.
 Quality assurance – National Reference Group
How to get involved with HI NOS
standards review and deployment?
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Contact Pam [email protected]
Mob 0787 989 8070
Join ASSIST
Browse the relevant web pages
Network with others
Attend relevant national/local events such
as these
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