Vision

A flexible and highly skilled workforce is an important requirement for healthcare employers. Flexible working also helps employees to play a wider role in their team. This benefits patients and services users who can be treated more quickly by multi skilled healthcare teams.

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Skills for Health is working with healthcare employers, clinicians, education providers and other partners to help deliver a modernised healthcare workforce. Together we are championing innovative ways of learning, helping to improve access to learning and showcasing best practice in skills development.

The result is that healthcare employers – whatever their size or type of service provided - can now access the latest and most effective ways of learning, without reinventing the wheel.

Some of the innovations Skills for Health has helped bring to the UK healthcare sector include:

  • New ways of working
  • Nationally Transferable Roles
  • Competence based approach to workforce design
  • Advances in commissioning and developing education
  • Training that allows flexibility and recognition of formal and informal learning

Our Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS) developed in partnership with the healthcare sector describes a strategic approach to the development of learning and qualifications. This ensures that learning and vocational qualifications are relevant to the healthcare sector’s needs.

At Skills for Health we have the ability to capture the whole of the learning agenda, from supporting young people between 14 and 19 years of age and school leavers, to learning and development for current employees and new entrants.

We are driven by a single vision and an absolute focus on patient need. Better learning leads to an increase in knowledge, an improvement in skills and potentially to full qualifications. In short, better skills, better jobs, better health.

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