Tools and methodologies

If you need to develop, design or plan your workforce Skills for Health has a number of tools and methodologies to support you.  You can use them to help you research, plan, and create the workforce you need with the right mix of skills and competences.

 

Our Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) online tool helps you

• Access a valuable evidence base, to inform service and workforce strategy development and planning
• Explore data from 20+ sources, covering NHS, independent and voluntary sectors
• Make comparisons between regions and countries across the UK.

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Our Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning helps you

• Take a stepped approach to workforce planning
•  Break down the process into structured and easy to follow stages 
• Tackle policies such as the European Working Time Directive, and New Ways of Working.

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Our Competence application tools help you

• Design or redesign your workforce for new, emerging or existing services
• Design teams and individual roles to meet service needs
• Identify knowledge and skills gaps in your existing workforce
• Support workforce development plans
• Provide a performance and/or appraisal framework that is staff and service focused
• Recruit, select and induct new staff and teams consistently.
  

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