NES Physiotherapy Education Advisory Sub Group WORKPLAN – Education Related Issues National Health Boards CSP & SIGs Scot Gov HEIs & Colleges Health Board Action Progress/ Barriers Level 9: More Senior Staff Level 8: Consultant Practitioners NMAHP Prof Doc at Ayrshire & 8.1. Senior AHPs require on-going access Consultant GCU, QMU Good to Great to Leadership skills with a regularly running meetings. & RGU (Band 7 to 8) or recognised leadership course. One-off Lothian’s and inconsistent provision makes access to Delivering developing leadership skills challenging. Leadership Excellence 8.2 Access to appropriate CPD courses for consultant roles is an issue. 8.3 Encourage 5pt credit leadership courses. 8.4 Agreed minimal level of education for consultants and advanced practitioners. Level 7: Advanced Practitioners Need to create a Standards of Policy Post-graduate: Workbook for Band 5, 7.1 (more senior/ specialist courses at mechanism to identify practice to be driver’s e.g. MSc modules in 6, and 7 e.g. MSK, SCQF 11) practitioners require a specialism core learning used to meet safe prescribing, MSK, community Lothian uniform approach to delivering specialist and education to share specialised Neuro and sports Pain, Lanarkshire training in clinical areas. Currently sporadic resources across all recruitment. quality rehab module. Band 5. provision especially for static staff. boards. strategy (specialist specific CSP and rehab courses - Tayside Workbooks Standardised educational packages would EDD resources to Accreditations framework. McKenzie, for Band 5, 6, 7 MSK, be useful e.g.: support WBL kitemark Bobath) Community, packages Orthopaedics & X-ray training (imaging requesting) development Short course in Stroke. medicine Supplementary prescribing PEF Programme management (RGU) Injection therapy There is a module these be accredited programmes?) at QMU for Radiographic 7.2 Discrepancy regarding Supplementary Imaging for prescribing educational need & provision. Physiotherapists There is an opportunity to use Learnpro (QMU) Research programmes available from HEIs
NES Physiotherapy Education Advisory Sub Group – WORKPLAN Education Related Issues National Health Boards CSP & SIGs Scot Gov HEIs & Colleges Health Board Action Progress/ Barriers Level 9: More Senior Staff Level 8: Consultant Practitioners 8.1. Senior AHPs require on-going access to Leadership skills with a regularly running or recognised leadership course. One-off and inconsistent provision makes access to developing leadership skills challenging. NMAHP Consultant meetings. Prof Doc at GCU, QMU & RGU Ayrshire & Good to Great (Band 7 to 8) Lothian’s Delivering Leadership Excellence 8.2 Access to appropriate CPD courses for consultant roles is an issue. 8.3 Encourage 5pt credit leadership courses. 8.4 Agreed minimal level of education for consultants and advanced practitioners. Level 7: Advanced Practitioners 7.1 (more senior/ specialist courses at SCQF 11) practitioners require a uniform approach to delivering specialist training in clinical areas. Currently sporadic provision especially for static staff. Standardised educational packages would be useful e.g.: X-ray training (imaging requesting) Supplementary prescribing Injection therapy these be accredited programmes?) 7.2 Discrepancy regarding Supplementary prescribing educational need & provision. There is an opportunity to use Learnpro Need to create a mechanism to identify specialism core learning and education to share resources across all boards. EDD resources to support WBL packages development PEF Programme Standards of practice to be used to meet specialised recruitment. CSP Accreditations kitemark Policy driver’s e.g. safe quality strategy and rehab framework. Post-graduate: MSc modules in prescribing, MSK, Neuro and sports rehab module. (specialist specific courses - McKenzie, Bobath) Short course in medicine management (RGU) There is a module at QMU for Radiographic Imaging for Physiotherapists (QMU) Research programmes available from HEIs Workbook for Band 5, 6, and 7 e.g. MSK, community Lothian Pain, Lanarkshire Band 5. Tayside Workbooks for Band 5, 6, 7 MSK, Community, Orthopaedics & Stroke.
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