Employability Matrix

The employability skills matrix aims to help staff working in the health sector to identify the personal skills, qualities, attributes and behaviours needed for each career level. This will support staff to access a grade of post, sustain effective working in that post and progress to higher/different posts. It will help individuals to see where they must develop skills and knowledge, help them to seek information and advice about possible development and training, contribute to the staff review process and maintain motivation to remain within the service.

The matrix should assist the NHS to ‘grow its own’ staff within the service, and prevent high levels of attrition as well as assist in identifying access points to employment in the NHS.

This should result in:

• better equipped and trained staff
• lower costs created through staff turnover
• greater staff satisfaction because development and promotion are more transparent

These will favourably impact upon costs in the service.

In order for the Matrix to connect to other health sector initiatives and to help the sector understand how employability skills can differ from one level to the next, it has been aligned with the already established Career Framework for Health. This means that at each of the nine levels of the Career Framework the appropriate employability skills can be clearly identified.

Download the Employability Skills matrix