Careers Modernisation
To address future workforce requirements, a new approach to healthcare job roles can prove beneficial.
By moving away from thinking in terms of traditional job roles and focusing on job functions instead, the specific skills and competences required to undertake a particular task can be identified and singled out. This allows each function to be mapped against its associated competences, and clusters of functions can be subsequently linked to a modernised Career Framework.
This approach enables employers to look beyond historic practices to seek new and innovative ways to fulfil job functions – resulting in more flexible careers, increased productivity and improved clinical governance.
The work being undertaken takes place on a UK wide basis and covers five specific areas:
- Modernising Allied Healthcare Professionals
- Modernising Medicine
- Modernising Nursing
- Modernising Scientific Careers
- Modernising the Wider Workforce
Some of this work is completed and other aspects are in development. Employers, professional bodies and other stakeholders are closely involved throughout. Where new ways of working have been developed, each has gone through a rigorous quality assurance process so its validity is already guaranteed. By following the same process it becomes easy for others to emulate these new ways of working within their own workforces.