THE COMPETENCY PLACE
Yes, Skills for Health, seems to be the epi-centre of the competency culture. It addresses the UK skills deficit outlined in the Leitch Report. This report is mentioned several times throughout their website.
This is the place where you can do a “Competence Search”, “Map Competencies”, “Create Competence Clusters” and use “Competence Application Tools.”
You can do NHS KSF Competence Mapping for 6 “core dimensions.” If you work in the NHS you’ll need to make sure you have all 6 of these dimensions.
The Witch Doctor hopes all medical staff reading this are aware of these 6 dimensions and are not lacking in these competencies.
Presumably the now defunct MTAS assessment was probing into these six competencies.
Once you have identified your dimension, you can go from level 1 to level 4 within that dimension as you become more competent.
This is where the KSF NOS tool is useful. You can then tick the box of all the dimensions at whatever level you require (1-4). The KSF posts you use this for seem to need to be official.
Ticking the boxes seems to activate the Competency Tool and harvests the competencies required at the specified dimension and level for an NHS KSF post outline. The competencies at this stage are no more than different coloured dots. There is then another series of boxes to tick but before doing this there are question marks that can be ticked to ensure the competency and level you require are correct. This turns the coloured competency dot into words. You will find the words much more meaningful than the coloured dots.
Eventually if all the competency dots are clicked on again the whole system opens up to give you a list compatable with the NHS KSF dimensions and levels. This leads to a role profile.
You can use another tool to show competencies from a selection of frameworks/suites. However, The Witch Doctor does not understand this bit yet.
There is also a filter button that The Witch Doctor also does not understand yet. No doubt it will be useful because there might be too many competencies mapped leading to confusion.
You can then design teams so that everyone has different competencies.
I suppose that’s OK as long as no-one in the team goes off sick, so it stands to reason that each competency will need to be duplicated, or triplicated among team members.
The Witch Doctor suspects this duplication or triplication is not happening in the NHS.
I hope you understand all this.
It is not gobbleydygook.
It is extremely important.
To go into this in greater depth, you need a user name and password.
The Witch Doctor does not have a user name nor a password.
More’s the pity.
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