Explorer overview
Welcome to the explorer area of the AHP Skills Maximisation toolkit.
Use this area to explore, to understand the processes and to contemplate whether you and your team wish to undertake Skills Maximisation processes together.
In this explorer area, you are encouraged to make space and time for your individual thinking.
In the future, during your Skills Maximisation workshops/ meetings, you will need to share your thinking with your team.
Overview and process
Please note this site is under development.
What is Skills Maximisation? Why is it useful?
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Stage 0: Prepare
This stage helps you explore, learn, and prepare your thinking
Stage 1: Clarify the journey
This stage helps you and your team to understand the bigger picture, to identify and clarify your journey, and to gather differing perspectives
Stage 2: Capture uniqueness
This stage helps you and your team to focus on your contributions, and to gather and analyse the data you need
Stage 3: Creating improvement
This stage helps you and your team to create, plan and support change improvement cycles, and develop your business case
Aim and learning outcomes
Aim
The aim of the AHP Skills Maximisation is to take participants on a service improvement journey. As a team member your exploration of these resources will prompt your thinking and thereby prepare you to participate in team workshop activities. Exploring these resources will enhance your knowledge and understanding of:
- Service Improvement Processes
- Quality Improvement Methodology
- Partnership Working
- Collaborative team Working
- Importance of current policy and research on service improvement and development
- Skill mix and the importance within a team and service
- Uniqueness and the importance of adding value to a service through maximising individual team members contribution.
The learning achieved during the process can be used to evidence Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and information conversations regarding Personal Development Plans (PDP).
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding preparatory thinking relate to current service provision.
- Develop thinking in order to participate and contribute to a process mapping session.
- Identify thinking and knowledge regarding service inefficiencies.
- Develop knowledge of current policy, research, and practice to service
- Present options e.g. for gathering information, feedback and for potential solutions.
- Critically reflect on personal feelings regarding service change
- Demonstrate thinking, knowledge and understanding of the scope and skill mix of the service.
- identify potential activity analysis tools to define the current service.
- Identify positive ad negative impacts of activities within current service (e.g. staff and service users).
- Describe and justify changes to the current service.
- Demonstrate a person-centred approach to service change and development.
Resources
The Explorer resources area gives you templates and supporting resources associated with each stage: Explorer resources