Welcome to the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) Development Framework information page.
The NMAHP development framework is presented under the following headings
What is the NMAHP development framework?
In this section you will find out more about the NMAHP Development Framework.
The NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (NMAHP) Development Framework is an overarching resource comprising of two linked components. The Healthcare Support Workers Development and Education Framework and The NMAHP Post-registration Development Framework.
The NMAHP Development Framework outlines the expectations of roles at practice levels 2–8 of the Career Framework for Health and provides all nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and healthcare support workers with a framework for their learning and development.
The NMAHP Development Framework has a dedicated website that can be accessed at
How to use the NMAHP Development Framework
The Development Framework supports the development of core knowledge, skills and behaviours in four pillars of practice for NMAHPs working at Levels 2-8 of the Career Framework for Health. It also enables profession specific and specialist knowledge, skills and behaviours to be added.
The framework is designed to be used by practitioners, managers and educators in different ways.
Practitioners:
- to benchmark current level of practice
- to continue to grow within current level of practice by identifying areas for development
- to guide professional development
- to customise a development plan linked directly to their role by adding on knowledge, skills and behaviours from profession or role specific frameworks
- to identify evidence to support personal development planning, or where relevant re-validation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Managers:
- to support discussions that take place as part of professional development reviews
- to inform succession planning
- to support skills maximisation at every level of practice
- to support service redesign and skill mix
- to map professional development of new employees joining from another area/board/previous employment
Educators:
- to plan and deliver education and training to meet the rapidly changing needs of practitioners
- to identify opportunities for shared, inter-professional learning
- to plan programmes of education to prepare practitioners to work at different levels of the framework
- to describe how education programmes articulate with each other
The Development Framework also directly links to the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework and can be used to support the annual development review cycle.
Evaluation and feedback
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