Participant overview
Welcome to the participant area of the AHP Skills Maximisation toolkit.
Use this area to explore, to understand the processes and to prepare for undertaking a Skills Maximisation process with your team. You
In this participant area, you are encouraged to make space and time to prepare your individual thinking before attending a meeting or workshop focussed on AHP Skills Maximisation.
Your preparation will help you share your thinking with your team.
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 participation in workshop activities 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 an understanding of the current service provision through discussions with team members.
- Participate ad contribute to a process mapping session.
- Demonstrate knowledge regarding service inefficiencies through active discussion.
- Apply knowledge of current policy, research and practice to service
- Present options and solutions e.g. participate in gathering service user feedback within the service.
- Critically reflect on personal feelings regarding service change.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the scope and skill mx of the service through workshop participation.
- Discuss the use of activity analysis tools in defining the current service.
- Determine the positive and negative impact of activities performed within the current service on staff and service users.
- Describe and justify changes to the current service.
- Demonstrate a person-centred approach to service change and development.
Overview
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.
Real stories
Arts Psychotherapies – Mental Health
Arts therapies include art therapy, music therapy, dramatherapy, and dance movement psychotherapy. Arts therapists used the Skills Maximisation Toolkit to explore service user journeys in mental health services. They identified barriers and areas where they could contribute.
These included
Barriers: referral, limited awareness, poor career structure
Opportunities and Benefits: wider choice of therapies for service users, evidence of effectiveness
Key targets: connect to the “bigger picture”, to targets and senior manager priorities.
They gathered data from Scottish mental health statistics, prescribing information, research, and service user surveys. Then created action plans. Their actions focused on
- clinical vignettes showcasing benefits of art therapies
- education
- resource availability
- career development
- cultural change.
The Skills Maximisation Toolkit supported arts therapies to identify where their input can added to improve service user outcomes.
Your stories
Please add your real stories. You can download the Skills Maximisation stories template from the link below:
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This document provides a template for you to give feedback and share your learning in respect of AHP Skills Maximisation Toolkit.
Resources
View some of the supporting resources associated with your preparation: Participant resources - Preparation