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Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF)

Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF)

CSTF - the trusted benchmark for statutory and mandatory training  

Cancer and Diagnostics work

Cancer and Diagnostics Careers

The work focuses on education and training, career pathways and supply pipelines of the Cancer and Diagnostics workforce, including the extent of the patient pathway in primary, secondary and community care.  

Career and Competence Frameworks

Non-custodial Career and Competence Framework

The Non-custodial Career and Competence Framework part of the NHS England Health and Justice Inclusive Workforce Programme, which aims to ‘Improve the recruitment and retention of a larger, more diverse, inclusive and representative workforce for all Health & Justice services and programmes’.  

Capabilities Frameworks

Primary Care & General Practice Nursing Career & Core Capabilities Framework

This framework will support Health Education England to achieve the aims of the ten-point action plan. The Framework provides a standard and greater clarity on the scope of practice for nurses working within primary care and general practice settings.  

Capabilities Frameworks

Virtual Ward and Urgent Community Response Capabilities Framework

The framework contains 11 core capabilities, common to the delivery of high-quality, personalised care in the virtual ward and within urgent community response services; 4 capabilities specific to the delivery of care within urgent community response services, and 4 capabilities which relate specifically to the delivery of care within the virtual ward.  

Capabilities Frameworks in development

Multi-professional Advanced Practice Credential in Autism (children, young people and adults)

The multi-professional advanced practice credential in autism will provide clinical leadership for the current and future workforce and role development in autism services.  

Career and Competence Frameworks

Career and Competence Framework for the Adult Secure and Detained Estate

This Career and Competence Framework articulates the key competences, knowledge and behaviours required to underpin and promote quality services to meet the needs of adults in the secure and detained estate.  

Career and Competence Frameworks

Career and Competence Framework for the Children and Young People’s Complex Needs Pathway

This Career and Competence Framework has been developed with experts from this area to support the growth and development of the workforce within the Children and Young People’s Complex Needs Pathway.  

Capabilities Frameworks in development

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Core Capabilities Framework for the Health & Care Workforce

NHS England & Improvement has commissioned Skills for Health to review and develop an IPC education framework for mandatory training which will outline the skills, knowledge and behaviours required by the health and care workforce to improve the quality of IPC practice and thereby improve health outcomes.  

Capabilities Frameworks

This core capabilities framework for health and care staff involved in wound care in England describes the required skills, knowledge and behaviours to improve wound care in three clinical areas: Pressure Ulcers, Lower Limb and Surgical Wounds.  

Capabilities Frameworks in development

Transition of Young People into Adult Services Core Capabilities Framework

NHSE/I has commissioned the development of this framework which aims to ensure that young people are actively prepared for the transition to adult healthcare services.  

Capabilities Frameworks in development

Medical Associate Professions (MAPs) Career Development Framework

In February 2021 HEE commissioned Skills for Health to lead the development of a Core Capabilities Framework to underpin the new career framework for Medical Associate Professions (MAPs).