The Career and Development Model is intended for the wider nursing and midwifery family including Nursing or Midwifery Assistants/Support Workers, Students and Registered Nurses and Midwives.
This includes those working in a range of settings and sectors across Northern Ireland, such as, hospital, community, primary care, general practice or the independent sector.
It can also be used to provide a structure for managers, educators and commissioners to support workforce planning and service delivery models which are linked to effective learning and development strategies, programmes and activities.
Examples of who the model is for are presented below.
Practitioners
- Defines pathways for individual career development, aligned to learning and development resources, to set career goals and vision for their future
- Encourages assessment of current competence and continuous learning and development
- Customises a development plan linked to roles for knowledge, skills and behaviours from core frameworks or service specific pathways
- Inspires and guides learning and development throughout career lifespan from early career to experienced/expert practice
- Maintains delivery of person centred, safe and effective within current and new roles
- Retains workforce expertise and experience
Managers
- Supports discussions that take place with staff as part of their personal development planning and review process
- Supports skills maximisation within teams, enabling safe staffing configuration through levels of practice design
- Informs workforce planning and succession planning to ensure safe, effective person centred care
- Supports service redesign and new models of care through ensuring the right care, right person, right place, right time
Educators
- Informs education commissioning priorities
- Supports workforce planning to meet strategic objectives
- Supports sustainability of models of care delivery now and for the future
- Provides a standardised approach to learning and development thereby facilitating measurement of value added through assessed outcomes for the service, staff, people and population
Strategy and Policy Leads
- Supports planning and delivery of education and training to meet the rapidly changing needs of the workforce
- Identifies opportunities for shared and inter-professional learning
- Describes how education programmes align with each other and can be applied along career journeys