Healthier Horizons
Modernising Scientific CareersNorth West Action Plan
Neil McLauchlan
Assistant Director for Education Commissioning
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Modernising Scientific Careers: Career and Training Pathways
Careers inPractice, Leadership & Management Training and EducationR & D
Associates andAssistants (HCSA)
Learning and Development Framework
Healthcare Science Practitioner (HCSP)
Practitioner Training Programme (PTP)
Integrated BSc
Scientist Training Programme (STP)
Direct Entry
SeniorHealthcare Scientist
Healthcare scientist
ASE**
*Regulation as a Healthcare Science Practitioner
*Regulation as a Healthcare Scientist
Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)
Graduate Direct Entry
*Higher Specialist Scientific Register
Potential equivalence route
Consultant Healthcare Scientist Appointment
Potential equivalence route
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8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1*Subject to public consultation
** Accredited Specialist Expertise
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Healthcare Science Assistant
Functional Role Career Pathway
Stage
Awards & Qualifications
e.g. Apprenticeship / NVQ 3/SVQs/ or equivalents
3
2
Education and Training Programme
Entry Point
Direct recruitment into employment
Direct recruitment into employment
Healthcare Science Assistant (HCSA)
Assistant Training Programme
Potential Progression
Healthcare Science
Associate
e.g. NVQ 2, SVQ or equivalents
Senior Healthcare Science Assistant
(HCSA)
Direct recruitment into employment or
promotion from career framework
stage 2
1Primarily an entry point
3
Healthcare Science Assistants (HCSA) will undertake a range of clearly defined task and protocol-based roles, supervised by Healthcare Science Associates, or by Healthcare Science Practitioners, depending on the needs of the service. Experienced Assistants would be able to progress to Associate posts. They will have opportunities to attain vocational training qualifications.
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Healthcare Science Associate
Functional Role Career Pathway Stage
Awards & Qualifications
e.g. FoundationDegree or HNC
4
Education and Training Programme
Entry Point
Direct recruitment into employment or promotion from assistant career grade
Healthcare Science Associate (HCSA)
Associate Training Programme
Potential progression into further training
programme Some Healthcare Science Associates
may be regulated (depending on role and
risk to patients)
Potential progression
Senior Associate, more managerial
4
Practitioner Training Programme
Healthcare Science Associates (HCSAssoc) at Career Framework four will undertake more advanced and complex investigative tasks and treatment protocol-based procedures than Assistants, with appropriate supervision, either by a Healthcare Science Practitioner, or a Healthcare Scientist. This will depend on the needs of the service and on the scope for technology to automate or standardise certain tasks and procedures and the ability to define protocols and activities.
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Healthcare SciencePractitioner
Functional Role Awards & Qualifications
BSc (Hons) in Healthcare Science
5
Education and Training Programme
Entry Point
Potential Progression
Potential Progression
Senior HCSP• Management• Education/• R & D• Practice
Three year integrated degree programme (inc experiential learning)In Scotland this will be four years**
Direct entry to degree programme or through local employment progression pathway
Healthcare Science Practitioner (HCSP)
Competitive entry to STP or through
local employment progression
pathway
* Regulation as a Healthcare Science
Practitioner
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5
Career Pathway
stage
Healthcare Science Practitioners (HCSP) will have the necessary expertise in applied scientific techniques within a discipline or related disciplines and will work in a range of healthcare settings, with a clearly defined technologically based role in the delivery and technical reporting of quality assured tests, investigations and interventions for patients, on samples or equipment. In a number of disciplines, HCSP will provide therapeutic interventions, some of which may be specialist.
*Subject to public consultation
** Undergraduate BSC Hons degrees in Scotland run for 4 years as the entry point for the majority of students is a year earlier than in other UK countries. Higher degrees, such as MSc and PhD in Scotland, follow a UK level format.
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HCSP – Training (PTP)
Year 2Techniques & Methodologies
Year 3Application to Practice
Year 1Scientific Basics
Academic
Increasing specialisation & supporting science
Academic learning to support workplace skills development
Core Specialisms: one of: •Blood Diagnostics•Infection Diagnostics•Tissues and Cellular Diagnostics•Genetics Technology
PRACTITIONER TRAINING PROGRAMME [PTP] – Life Sciences
Workplace-based
Clinical experience
Core Specialism and Project
Divisional Focus – Life Sciences
Introductory Block across Healthcare Science
Work placements
Increasing experientiallearning (up to maximum of 50 weeks)
Integrated BSc (Hons) in Healthcare Science with a Certificate of Competence
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Healthcare Scientist
Functional RoleAwards & Qualifications
Masters degree and Certificate of Attainment
(experiential component)
Education and Training Programme
Entry Point
Potential Progression
Potential Progression
Senior HCS (may attain ASE**)• Leadership• Education• Practice
Direct for graduate with relevant
degree (inc HCSPs) or local
employment progression
pathway
Competitive entry to Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)
* Regulation as a Healthcare Scientist
*HigherSpecialist Scientific Register
3 year clinical/scientific
rotational experiential programme with
associated Masters level programme
Healthcare Scientist (HCS)
7
Potential equivalence route
7
6
Career Pathway
stage
Healthcare Scientists (HCS) will have clinical and specialist expertise underpinned by theoretical knowledge and experience in a specific clinical discipline, underpinned by broader knowledge and experience within a healthcare science theme. They will undertake complex scientific and clinical roles, defining and choosing investigative and clinical options, and making key judgements about complex facts and clinical situations. Many will work directly with patients. They will be involved, often in lead roles, in innovation and improvement, research and development and education and training. Some will pursue explicit academic career pathways which combine clinical practice and academic activity in research, innovation and education. They may be regulated following award of an approved Masters qualification and completion of work-based training.
* Subject to public consultation
** Accredited Specialist Expertise
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HCS – Training (STP)
ROTATIONS (12 months)4 x 3 months
Rotational Programme – Overview
Single Specialism (18 months)
Specialism 1Specialism 1 Specialism 2Specialism 2 Specialism 3Specialism 3
Introductory Academic Block – 3 months
Specialism 4Specialism 4
Elective – one from any healthcare science discipline or a related clinical service (for 4 – 6 weeks)
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HCS – Training (STP)
ROTATIONS (12 months)4 x 3 months
Rotational Programme – Blood Sciences
Specialism (18 months) – one from:• Clinical Biochemistry• Haematology/Transfusion Science• Immunology• Genetics
BiochemistryBiochemistryHaematology/Transfusion
Science
Haematology/Transfusion
ScienceImmunologyImmunology
Introductory Academic Block – 3 months
Molecular Science
(mandatory)
Molecular Science
(mandatory)
Elective – one from any healthcare science discipline or a related clinical service (for 4 – 6 weeks)
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HCS – Training (STP)
ROTATIONS (12 months)4 x 3 months
Rotational Programme – Cellular Sciences
Specialism (18 months) – one from:
• Histopathology• Cytopathology• Reproductive Science•Genetics
HistologyHistology GeneticsGenetics CytologyCytology
Introductory Academic Block – 3 months
MolecularScience
(mandatory)
MolecularScience
(mandatory)
Elective – one from any healthcare science discipline or a related clinical service (for 4 – 6 weeks)
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HCS – Training (STP)
ROTATIONS (12 months)4 x 3 months
Rotational Programme – Infection Sciences
Specialism (18 months)
General microbiology including infection control and epidemiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology and parasitology
Introductory Academic Block – 3 months
Elective – one from any healthcare science discipline or a related clinical service (for 4 – 6 weeks)
Infection Control& Epidemiology
Infection Control& Epidemiology BacteriologyBacteriology VirologyVirology
MolecularScience
(mandatory)
MolecularScience
(mandatory)
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Senior Healthcare Scientist
Functional Role Career Pathway Stage
Awards & Qualifications
To be confirmed
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7
Education and Training Programme
Entry Point
Potential Progression
Continuing professional development which may
include Accredited Specialist Expertise (ASE)
programmes
Registered Healthcare Scientist
Senior Healthcare Scientist (SHCS)
Consultant • Leadership• Education• Research• Advanced Practice
Registered Healthcare Scientist
(opportunity to apply through
equivalence for registration as HCS
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A Senior Healthcare Scientist undertaking advanced scientific practice will be a healthcare scientist who has progressed competitively following qualification to a specialist post, and will have developed skills and theoretical knowledge to a very high standard. A senior healthcare scientist will undertake highly complex roles within a defined field, with a role in research and development, innovation and/or in education.
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Consultant Healthcare Scientist
Functional Role Career Pathway Stage
Awards & Qualifications
Still to be determined 9
Education and Training Programme
Entry Point
HSST in defined disciplines or evidenced CPD to required outcomes
Registered HCS
Consultant Healthcare Scientist
Leadership in:-• Practice• Innovation• R and D
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Consultant Healthcare Scientist will provide clinical and scientific expertise and leadership; provide consultant level advice within the context of direct patient care; give strategic direction, innovate and provide highly developed and specialised skills for service development and provision; initiate or lead formal research activities, innovation and improvement; lead education and training activities
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NW Action Plan
• Identifying SHA leadership for implementation of MSC• A plan for delivering commitments in Modernising
Scientific Careers: The England Action Plan including clear deliverables and how these will be monitored
• A plan for managing the pace of change in relation to the commissioning and funding of MSC programmes
• Details of how early adopters will be identified and managed
• How stakeholders (including Trades Unions) will be engaged
• How the plan will be delivered
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Governance - Organisational Chart
SHA
NW MSC Oversight Board
National MSC TeamDepartment of Health
Regional HCS Networks:
•Greater Manchester
•Cumbria & Lancashire
•Cheshire & Mersey
Divisional HCS Workforce Groups:
•Life Sciences
•Clinical Physiology
•Clinical Engineering & Physical Sciences
Healthcare Science Service Providers
Healthcare Science Academic Providers
Strategic
Operational - Regional
Operational – Local
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NW MSC Oversight Board
• To lead the implementation of MSC within the North West
• To agree with the MCS Divisional Workforce Groups action plans for the implementation of MSC and monitor their implementation and evaluation
• To identify and advise on mitigating actions to manage any risks associated with the implementation of MSC
• To make recommendations to the SHA with regard to securing of the supply of Healthcare Scientists during the transition to MSC
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Operational Delivery
• NW MSC Oversight Board
• Role of the Divisional Workforce Groups
• Role of the Regional Healthcare Science Groups
• Local collaboration and partnership working between Universities and service leads
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Education Commissioning
• Bands 1 to 4 – NVQ, Apprenticeships, Foundation Degree
• PTP – Local, HEFCE funded, placement model, workforce demand and modernisation
• STP – Lead commissioning (NHSWM), national tendering, central recruitment, placement rotations
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Challenges
• New roles• Work-based learning and placement model• Regulation• Funding• Service transformation – pathology modernisation,
competition, innovation, technology• White paper• Education supply v demand out of balance• Impact of Brown and changes to HE funding