Higher Education Demonstrator Sites
Upskilling the healthcare workforce in London calls for a collaborative approach, so Skills for Health is facilitating several leading projects with employers and learning providers. We have been working with 12 Higher Education demonstrator sites across the UK, two of which are in London.
Our work with four London Lifelong Learning Networks (LLN), in partnership with NHS London, will be trialling use of competence based awards co-developed by employers and LLN partners in the college and university sectors. This important work is showing how employers and HE can support Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD), KSF and other major workforce agendas.
The other demonstrator site work is around Stroke Care and developing CPD for assistant practitioner roles (intensive care, palliative care, unplanned and urgent care) in partnership with Whipps Cross University Hospital, Southbank University, Waltham Forest PCT; Barking and Dagenham PCT; Havering PCT and Redbridge PCT. The team will be exploring how to integrate new roles and identifying career progression within the NHS Careers Framework to Band 5.
An important part of the HE demonstrator work will be to show how employers and learning providers can facilitate awards that are based on Learning Design Principles, so that they are transferable UK wide; fit for purpose; valued by employers, employees and learners; accessible and flexible for learners and more widely taken up by employees and new entrants.
We are confident that the work will play a vital part in ensuring that London’s healthcare workforce is equipped with the right skills to support new services and improve patient care.
For more on HE demonstrator sites click here.
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