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NHS Education for Scotland NMAHP Development Framework

Personal development

In this section you will find information on how the NMAHP Development Framework can support you at different stages of your personal development journey.

Personal development can take different forms. The framework helps you expand your role across the 4 Pillars of Practice and supports your career aspirations.  

It can guide you in: 

  • Vertical progression: Developing higher levels of responsibility, knowledge, and skills to move into more advanced roles and career pathways. 
  • Horizontal progression: Strengthening your skills and knowledge within your current role to explore new career pathways or focus on areas like leadership within your current level. 

The framework is designed to be used by Healthcare Support Workers, Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP), Healthcare Students, Managers, and Educators, adapting to their unique needs at different stages of their careers. 

Used by NMAHP and Healthcare Students to:

  • Benchmark current level of practice.
  • Continue to grow within current level of practice by identifying areas for development.
  • Guide career development.
  • Support meaningful personal development plan and review conversations.
  • Identify evidence to support personal development planning. 
  • Develop evidence of advanced level practice
  • Develop evidence to support revalidation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or for individuals aiming to return to practice.

 

 

Used by organisations and managers to: 

  • Develop current and emerging services 
  • Align to national policy and workforce legislation 
  • Support service design, development and redesign 
  • Support discussions that take place as part of the personal development planning and review process 
  • Inform succession planning 
  • Support skills maximisation at every level of practice 
  • To determine knowledge and skill mix 
  • Map personal development of new employees joining from another area/ board previous employment 

Used by educators to: 

  • Plan and deliver education and training to meet the rapidly changing needs of the NMAHP and HCSW workforce 
  • Plan programmes of education to prepare practitioners to work at different levels of the framework 
  • Identify opportunities for shared, inter-professional learning 
  • Describe how education programmes articulate with each other 

We know that when staff and teams are learning, the people they care for and provide treatment to have better outcomes.