Tools

Skills for Health has several tools to help you:

• design or redesign individual roles, team and services
• assist with workforce planning
• undertake staff appraisals
• identify skills gaps to inform the training and development of staff, including Continuing Professional Development
• recruit, select and induct new recruits.
  

Find competences from our database quickly and easily with four easy to use resources:

• Competence search tool
• NHS KSF mapping tool
• Health Functional Map
• Career Framework tool

Store your unique collection of competences from your search of the database using the My Lists tool.

And carry out assessments on your lists using:

• Self assessment tool
• Team assessment tool

What do the tools do?

The competence search tool enables you to search the database for specific competences using a range of criteria.

The NHS KSF competence mapping tool enables you to find competences that are mapped to selected dimensions and levels of an NHS KSF Post outline.

The Health Functional Map helps you find relevant competences based on functions.

The Career Framework tool contains lists of competences that have been have been mapped by Skills for Health to real job descriptions.

My Lists lets you store lists of competences from search results e.g. lists relating to role/team profiles or modules of learning.

The self assessment tool allows individuals to assess their abilities against competences in lists/profiles, and highlight strengths and weaknesses.

The team assessment tool enables you to undertake a skills mix analysis of teams, and highlight skills gaps.

Start using the Competence tools now

Read the Tools Overview Guide