Personal accountability & awareness Community engagement & education Takes responsibility for own work Develops networks practices, learning and skill community inclusion ‘Gets’ development Presents disability positively to Reflects on own practice and can community, volunteers and change approach stakeholders Understands how own values and attitudes can increase or decrease community inclusion opportunities Understands the role of facilitator of community inclusion they are not a – friend’ ‘special What does your current workforce look like? What skills do they have? Do their skills influence the services you provide? Is there a match between skills and what people with disability and families want? Do you have strategies in place for filling skills gaps? Have you started implementing them? Workforce Skills Assessment Matrix Below is a skills assessment matrix that can be used to start identifying the skills within your workforce. Step 1: Identify the workforce members you want to assess and the skills you are looking for (both hard and soft skills) Step 2: Plot these into the matrix (see sample below) Step 3: Rate each person against the skills using the below rating scale. Rating Scale 1 to 4 4. Highly skilled: expert who can train others 3. Skilled: competent and does not need assistance 2. Partially skilled: some gaps in skills and requires assistance 1. Not skilled: skill gap and cannot perform work
Personal accountability & awareness Takes responsibility for own work practices, learning and skill development Reflects on own practice and can change approach Understands how own values and attitudes can increase or decrease community inclusion opportunities Understands the role of facilitator of community inclusion – they are not a ‘special friend’ Community engagement & education Develops networks ‘Gets’ community inclusion Presents disability positively to community, volunteers and stakeholders What does your current workforce look like? What skills do they have? Do their skills influence the services you provide? Is there a match between skills and what people with disability and families want? Do you have strategies in place for filling skills gaps? Have you started implementing them? Workforce Skills Assessment Matrix Below is a skills assessment matrix that can be used to start identifying the skills within your workforce. Step 1: Identify the workforce members you want to assess and the skills you are looking for (both hard and soft skills) Step 2: Plot these into the matrix (see sample below) Step 3: Rate each person against the skills using the below rating scale. Rating Scale 1 to 4 4. Highly skilled: expert who can train others 3. Skilled: competent and does not need assistance 2. Partially skilled: some gaps in skills and requires assistance 1. Not skilled: skill gap and cannot perform work