Explorer resources
Aim: The explorer resources area aims to give you more detail to help you prepare to start using AHP Skills Maximisation Toolkit
Overview
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What is Skills Maximisation? Why is it useful?
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Prepare
Stage 0: Prepare
This stage helps you explore, learn and prepare your thinking.
- Explore and learn: Learning outcomes AHP Skills Maximisation explorer section
- Read Real stories - AHPs using the Skills Maximisation Toolkit in Scotland
- Prepare your thinking: Prepare to identify your journey
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Learning outcomes for the explorer area of the AHP Skills Maximisation Toolkit
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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.
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Skills maximisation toolkit : guidance around preparing to identify your journey and providing a personal thinking space for you to prepare and start making a list of the journeys you could look at in your service.
Clarify the journey
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.
Understand the bigger picture
- Identify the Journey - this step is about agreeing where to focus.
- Understand and Map the Journey - this step is about understanding the process.
- Agree the Journey - this step is about creating the process map of your journey.
- Getting Feedback - this step is about considering perspectives.
You can download these resources from the links below:
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Skills maximisation toolkit : identify the journey guidance to work with your team and choose the service user journey to focus on.
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AHP Skills maximisation toolkit : understand and map the journey
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AHP Skills maximisation toolkit : agree the journey guidance
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Getting feedback from individuals and carers - stage 1 - clarifying the journey of AHP Skills Maximisation Toolkit
A real journey
This process map for chest x-ray was created during a radiographers’ consensus event. Delegates worked in small groups to identify the steps.
Capture uniqueness
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.
Focus on your contributions
- Discover the key details of your current workforce - learn more about workforce profiling
- Explore and analyse the tasks in your journey - learn more about activity analysis
- Identify key areas for improvement to optimise your workflow and achieve better results - learn more about identifying areas for improvement
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Skills maximisation toolkit : workforce profiling guidance. The aim is to identify and describe your current workforce to create a current workforce profile.
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Skills maximisation toolkit : activity analysis guidance
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Skills maximisation toolkit : identify areas for improvement
Creating improvement
Stage 3: Creating improvement
This stage helps you and your team to create, plan and support change improvement cycles, and develop your business case.
3.1 Identify and Review Tests of Change - this step is about planning changes.
3.2 Supporting Behaviour Change - this step is essential to understand the process of change and the emotions associated with change.
3.3 Developing a Business Case - this step supports your business case preparation.
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AHP Skills Maximisation Toolkit prioritisation tool examples
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Evidence of impact template from AHP Skills Maximisation Toolkit
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Skills maximisation toolkit : identifying challenges template
Real stories
Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy - Health Care Support Workers
After focussing on the unique contribution of qualified AHPs “A step too far” exercise was started. Different staff groups were asked what they do and what they feel an adequately trained AHP health care support workers (HCSW) would be able to do. Two areas have come out consistently from the groups. These are Collection of Pre-Admission Profiles for OT and Stair Assessment for Physiotherapy. The team worked to develop robust competencies and criteria to enable AHP HCSWs to perform these in all areas.
Further information
To find out more as a participant, go to the Participant section
To find out more as a participant, go to the Facilitator/Lead section
To find out more about learning levels of knowledge, skills and behaviours within the Facilitating Learning Pillar
- Registered AHPs: please use the Development Needs Analysis Tool (DNAT) within the NMAHP Development Framework
- Non-registered AHP colleagues: please use the Development Needs Analysis Tool (DNAT) for levels 2-4
Feedback
We hope you enjoy exploring the site and have found it useful. We welcome your feedback to inform ongoing development of the site.
If you have any comments, ideas or suggestions, please complete the short feedback form or email us directly at postreg.nmahp@nes.scot.nhs.uk