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The career framework consists of nine different levels at which a function could be performed, from level 1 initial entry level jobs to more senior staff at level 9.

It aids workforce flexibility, providing a common currency to map employees’ competence portfolios, and to identify areas of transferability to other job roles. This allows progression in directions which may not have been identified through traditional routes.

It contains lists of competences that have been mapped by Skills for Health to actual job descriptions. Each one has identified individual competences, work activities, quality standards and the knowledge and skills needed to carry out those activities.

They have not been externally validated, and it is not intended to be an exemplar of any kind, but simply a list of competences which you may consider useful when working with similar jobs, or looking at care pathways.

1. Logging In

2. Getting Started

3. The Career Framework Levels

4. How to Search

5. Search Results

6. Adding Competences

7. Deleting competences

8. Exporting and printing a competence

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Logging inIn order to access the full functionality of the career framework tool you must login if you have an account. If you dont have an account you will need to register for one.

The Career Framework tool is one of the tools to help you find competences for your role, team or service profiles.

1. Log in - click on the log in button to log in.

2. Username - enter your username and password to log in.

3. Log in - click on login to submit your credentials and access the tools.

4. Forgotten your password - if you have an account but forgotten your log in credentials click on forgotten your password link and follow the on screen instructions to reset your password.

5. Register for account - please click and follow the on screen instructions to register for an account.

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Getting Started

1. From the Competence Application Tools main page click the ‘Career Framework’ link.

2. The career framework tool has numerous ways of searching for your information either by a simple search, by job title or career framework level.

3. To view the different searches click on the purple button beside “browse by job title” or “Browse by Career Framework Level”

4. Each Job role contains a number of competences relating to the role e.g. Active Lifestyle Advisor contains 20 competences.

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The Career Framework Levels

The career framework levels have been developed based on eight components within a job which are:

• Knowledge, skills, training and experience

• Supervision

• Professional and vocational competence

• Analytical/clinical skills and patient care

• Organisational skills and autonomy/freedom to act

• Planning, policy and service development

• Financial, administration, physical and human resources

• Research and development.

For more detailed advice on the 9 levels please see the accompanying document “Key Elements of the Career Framework”

Career Framework Level 9People working at level 9 require knowledge at the most advanced frontier of the field of work and at the interface between fields. They will have responsibility for the development and delivery of a service to a population, at the highest level of the organisation. Indicative or Reference title: Director9Career Framework Level 8People at level 8 of the career framework require highly specialised knowledge, some of which is at the forefront of knowledge in a field of work, which they use as the basis for original thinking and/or research. They are leaders with considerable responsibility, and the ability to research and analyse complex processes. They have responsibility for service improvement or development. They may have considerable clinical and/or management responsibilities, be accountable for service delivery or have a leading education or commissioning role. Indicative or Reference title: Consultant

8Career Framework Level 7People at level 7 of the career framework have a critical awareness of knowledge issues in the field and at the interface between different fields. They are innovative, and have a responsibility for developing and changing practice and/or services in a complex and unpredictable environment. Indicative or Reference title: Advanced Practitioner7Career Framework Level 6People at level 6 require a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practical knowledge, are specialist and /or have management and leadership responsibilities. They demonstrate initiative and are creative in finding solutions to problems. They have some responsibility for team performance and service development and they consistently undertake self development. Indicative or Reference title: Specialist/Senior Practitioner

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Key Elements of the Career Framework

Career Framework Level 5People at level 5 will have a comprehensive, specialised, factual and theoretical knowledge within a field of work and an awareness of the boundaries of that knowledge. They are able to use knowledge to solve problems creatively, make judgements which require analysis and interpretation, and actively contribute to service and self development. They may have responsibility for supervision of staff or training. Indicative or Reference title: Practitioner

5Career Framework Level 4People at level 4 require factual and theoretical knowledge in broad contexts within a field of work. Work is guided by standard operating procedures, protocols or systems of work, but the worker makes judgements, plans activities, contributes to service development and demonstrates self development. They may have responsibility for supervision of some staff. Indicative or Reference title: Assistant/Associate Practitioner

4Career Framework Level 3People at level 3 require knowledge of facts, principles, processes and general concepts in a field of work. They may carry out a wider range of duties than the person working at level 2, and will have more responsibility, with guidance and supervision available when needed. They will contribute to service development, and are responsible for self development. Indicative or Reference title: Senior Healthcare Assistants/Technicians

3Career Framework Level 2People at level 2 require basic factual knowledge of a field of work. They may carry out clinical, technical, scientific or administrative duties according to established protocols or procedures, or systems of work. Indicative or Reference title: Support Worker2Career Framework Level 1People at level 1 are at entry level, and require basic general knowledge. They undertake a limited number of straightforward tasks under direct supervision. They could be any new starter to work in the Health sector, and progress rapidly to Level 2. Indicative or Reference title: Cadet1

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How to Search

There are three different ways of searching for information in the career framework tool

1. Search Box – This is a free type box allowing you to type in keyword(s) to find relevant job roles. This will search within the title, summary text and keywords associated with each competence on the database. You can be more selective by chosing the level of the job role.

2. Browse by Job Title – Job roles are sorted alphabetically in ‘tabs’ for ease of searching. There may be more than one of each job role depending on the framework level and number of competences in the list

3. Browse by Career Framework Level – Job roles are organised by level in ‘tabs’. There my be more than one of a particular job role in each level depending on information fed into the tool.

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How to Search continued

The screens on the right show the results of searching for the “support worker” role

1. Search box – The results are shown in a list, organised by the different levels. The tool finds all relevant results. This shows

• The career framework level• The name of the job role• The number of competences in brackets

By double clicking on the title of the job role you can view the full details

2. Browsing by job title/framework level – By clicking on the purple button beside the title you can view:

• The career framework level• The name of the job role• The number of competences in brackets• A brief description of the job role based on the

competences included

To view the full list of competences click ‘more…’ to open the competences as a list

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Search Results

The screen on the right shows the competences for the support worker. When the list is displayed a number of details can be viewed

1. Competence – This includes • The title of the competence • The relevance of the competence • When it was last updated• A brief summary of the competence.

By clicking on the title of the competence you can view the full details

2. References – This includes• The reference number of the competence• The reference of where the competence is in

the KSF • The reference of where the competence is

in the HFM. You can view it’s placement by clicking on the link

3. Viewing as a PDF – by clicking on the icon the full competence details can be viewed, saved or printed

4. View List as a PDF – by clicking on the button the full list of competence details can be viewed, saved or printed

5. OrderBy – You can select one of the options from this drop down list to order your list according to relevance, competence code, title, HFM Code, KSF Mapping

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Adding competences to a list

To add a competence you must first create a list to add it to via the MyList tool. Once you have created this follow these instructions

1. Click “Select List”

2. Select the list you want to add the competences to

3. Click “confirm”

4. Select the competences to be added

5. Click “Add to List>>Support Worker”

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Deleting competences from a list

When you have created a list you may want to remove one or more of the competences you have added. To do this follow these instructions

1. Go to my lists

2. Select the list containing the competences

3. Click on “View” to see all the competences within the list

4. Select any competences you wish to remove

5. Click on “Delete Selected”

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Exporting and printing competences

You can save competences on to your computer or print them out for reference later. This is very simple to do by following these instructions

1. From any of the tools you can click on the pdf symbol beside the competence you would like to print or save

2. Click print to print the competence

3. Click Save to save the competence

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