Careers & Individual Skills Development

Career pathways

A flexible, well skilled workforce is one of the ways to delivering better patient care and the development and design of services rely on skilled staff.  If your workforce doesn't have the skills mix required, there are a number of actions you can take. You can improve the competences of your team; provide learning for your staff; or encourage the pursuit of qualifications.  We have a range of resources that will help you including: competences and planning tools; career frameworks; learning pathways; and careers and qualifications information.

Careers Information

When making important decisions about your career it’s important to find the right information and advice.  We know that access to information about funding, courses, other learning opportunities, advice and career progression will help you make the right choice.  Skills for Health has a wide range of free resources and toolkits to support you. We have links and partnership work with organisations across the UK that will give you access to many of the resources you need.

Developing my skills

If you need to improve your professional skills or develop your knowledge, Skills for Health can help you access a range of useful resources and tools to help you.  We have information on what learning to take that will lead to a qualification; funding guides for learning and development; career frameworks to plan your career progression; and competence based tools that help you assess your current skills and identify new ones to take your career further.