Project to develop AHP career framework
 Skills for Health has commenced a ‘major and strategically important new project’ to develop a competence based career management framework for the Allied Health Professions.
It builds on work already undertaken across the UK in the last three years to develop competences across a number of care groups and services. Nationally approved competences are available for a wide and varied range of services including mental health, coronary heart disease, children’s services, older people’s services, diabetes and emergency, urgent and scheduled care.
The project has three main aspects:
- To develop competences and ensure they are relevant to the work of AHPs and their staff;
- To link AHP roles into the career framework; and
- To develop a framework of awards and qualifications for the work of AHPs and their staff.
The competences will be nationally recognised and therefore transferable across all sectors of health care – NHS, independent, voluntary and military. They will cover the work of all staff of all grades in all locations and will be linked to the knowledge and skills framework within Agenda for Change.
The link to awards and qualifications will be within the nationally recognised framework of awards such as Scottish/national vocational qualifications, foundation degrees, honours degrees and post graduate qualifications.
Competences will be finalised by the end of 2006 and roles linked in with the career framework by the same date. The framework will be developed during 2007.
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