3rd Big Idea

Skills, Competencies and Team Job Planning

Steve Kingsbury and Ann York

2010

This is Each individual having a job plan that describes

their work: core, specific, choice, admin etc This plan being written with team needs in mind All the individual plans integrated into one team

plan

Team Job Planning p 78, 85-89

Why?

Plans activity for the whole service Calculates capacity Makes work load manageable Flexibility to move and build resources Transparent monitoring Set standards for activity as well as protects staff

from over activity

Key task

Defining different types of clinical work Choice Core Partnership Specific Partnership

Core vs Specific work in job plan

Core work Tends to be of standard duration- on average 7

sessions Uses threshold level extended skills (ABCDS)

Specific work specialist level skill used to complement the core

work e.g specific assessment or intervention May be shorter (e.g. Specialist assessments) or

longer duration (e.g. high intensity interventions)

Can use Real Skills Plus CAMHS competencies as guide

Key concept: extending clinical skills

ABCD’S Skills Clinicians (Alphabet skills) Clinicians who have extended their skills to include

the threshold competencies of:

Assessment Behavioural Cognitive Dynamic. Systemic

Specialist skills pattern

Core Extended threshold skills

A possible team pattern

Assessment Behavioural Dynamic

Systemic

Staff 1 Staff 2 Staff 3 Staff 4 Staff 5

Cognitive

A Possible Pattern… Effects?

A Possible Pattern… Effects?

A Possible Pattern… Effects?

Specific work protected in job plan

You decide as a team what you need to protect.

Examples could be...

Shorter duration ASD assessment WISC

Longer duration psychodynamic psychotherapy EMDR Specialist level/’high intensity’ CBT