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Learning and Education |
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Current skill set and mix |
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Skills required to meet needs |
Personal development planning & CPD Professional portfolios | NMAHP Development Framework Personal Development Planning Hub National Resources that Support Personal Development Planning and Review - AHP | Turas | Learn |
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Advanced Practice Capability Frameworks e.g. frailty, job title & post naming, existing & new posts (add in link) |
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Skills Max step 3 - capturing uniqueness (add link once on site) |
A robust learning and education plan ensures learning is purposeful, consistent, and aligned to real needs. It helps build the right skills and knowledge across the workforce, supporting individuals to perform confidently and services to adapt and improve.
By setting clear priorities and learning pathways, it makes best use of time and resources, supports quality and safety, and helps demonstrate the impact of education on practice and outcomes. Further guidance on assessing and developing the skills of your workforce can be found within national educational resources, which provide structured tools to identify current learning needs and plan educational requirements of AHP teams, Advanced Practice and Trainee roles
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Watch the video (from 33.35-38.03) to learn about conducting and Educational Needs Analysis and how to apply this to your work. |
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To begin, consider the skills your workforce has today and how we develop them to meet the needs of tomorrow. To do this look at your current workforce education baseline and map requirement against future population and service needs. |

Examples of learning needs Analysis and supporting competency framework survey
NHSL Podiatry LOWER LIMB Competency Framework LNA Template.xlsx
NHSL Podiatry Competencies - Results (61) - Summary.pdf
Examples of educational learning plans
NHS GG&C Podiatry Learning Development Plan
NHS GG&C MSK Physiotherapy (DNAT Gap Analysis of APP roles) - TBC
NHS GG&C MSK Physiotherapy Educational resources mapped to band 3-8