About SfH

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About SfH

• Sector Skills Council
• UK - wide
• Health sector wide
• Joint work with other SSCs
• Regional Networks

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Our Aims

• Profile the UK workforce
• Identify trends and articulate sector workforce
  needs
• Drive forward and manage national occupational
  standards
• Improve workforce skills
• Influence education, training and skills and
  
• workforce development

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Aims of the PH Career Framework

• Career Framework a tool
• Enable individuals to see what competencies they
  need for career development
• Enable organisations to access skills
  competences in PH workforce
• Inform training

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PH Context

• Focus on improving health/reducing inequalities,
  White Papers and PSAs to support this
• Meanwhile
• Organisational change
• Inconsistent approaches to qualifications
• Lack of emphasis on horizontal progression
• Lack of emphasis on common competences
• New HI agenda new approach to developing
  workforce capacity and capability

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Purpose and people

• Shared vision
• Articulate and promote PH function
• You are the experts
• Work underway
• Joining up workforce and service development
  strategies

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Project Phases - overview

• Phase 1 Public Health Career Framework and
  career pathways
• Phase 2 Public Health CF Cube with Interactive
  Tool
• Phase 3 Field testing CF and tools
• Phase 4 Career Framework Skills Escalator
  Implementation Strategy

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Sample Job Descriptions
Example of Application
Registration
Training qualifications
Knowledge
CAREER FRAMEWORK LEVELS
COMPETENCES
CORE
NON-CORE
LEVEL 9 MORE SENIOR STAFF
Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency Public Health
Career Framework
LEVEL 8CONSULTANT PRACTITIONERS
LEVEL 7 ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS
LEVEL 7 ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS
LEVEL 6SENIOR/SPECIALIST PRACTITIONERS
LEVEL 5PRACTITIONERS
Leadership and collaborative working for health
Health Improvement
Public Health Intelligence
Health Protection
Academic Public Health
Surveillance and assessment of the populations
health and well-being
Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of health
and healthcare interventions, programmes and
services
Policy and strategy development and
implementation
LEVEL 4ASST/ASSOCIATE PRACTITIONERS
LEVEL 3SNR HEALTHCARE ASSTS/TECHNICIANS
LEVEL 2SUPPORT WORKERS
LEVEL 1INITIAL ENTRY LEVEL JOBS
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Consultation - Key Meetings/Dates

• HIWPB Sept/October/December
• HIWSG May/September/February
• Workshop Sunningdale - July
• Workshop Leeds - October
• Workshop Wales - December

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Contact

• Emma Heughan
• Project Manager
• Skills for Health
• Emma.Heughan_at_skillsforhealth.org.uk
• 07789653145